Ford Star Jubilee: You're the Top

Television Special


Broadcast live from Los Angeles on the CBS-TV Network on October 6, 1956
Produced, Staged and Choreographed by Robert Alton
Written by Herbert Baker
Operetta Parody by Peter Lind Hayes
Directed by Seymour Berris
Executive Producer: Jack Rayel
Associate Producer: Robert Adams
Musical Director: David Rose
Art Direction: Robert Tyler Lee
Music Supervisor: Lud Gluskin


Cast

Louis Armstrong, Dorothy Dandridge, Sally Forrest, Dolores Gray, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae, George Sanders, with George Chakiris, Don Crichton, The Toppers, and a special appearance by Bing Crosby and Cole Porter


Musical Numbers

  • "Another Op'nin', Another Show" - Entire Cast
  • "Anything Goes" - Don Crichton and Dancers
  • "You Do Something to Me" - Dorothy Dandridge
  • "In the Still of the Night" - Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones
  • "You're the Top" - Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy
  • "Let's Do It" - Dolores Gray and George Sanders
  • "Night and Day" - George Chakiris and Sally Forrest
  • "Thank You So Much, Mrs. Lowsborough-Goodby" - George Sanders
  • "C'est Magnifique" - George Sanders
  • "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" - Louis Armstrong
  • "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" - Dorothy Dandrige and Dancers
  • Kiss Me Kate Sequence
    • "Always True to You in My Fashion" - Dolores Gray
    • "So In Love" - Gordon MacRae
    • "I Hate Men" - Shirley Jones
    • "Wunderbar" - Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones
  • Operetta Parody - Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy
  • Medley: "I Get a Kick Out of You" / "Why Can't You Behave" / Down in the Depths" / "Just One of Those Things" - Dolores Gray
  • "I Love You" - Gordon MacRae
  • "Begin the Beguine" - Gordon MacRae with Sally Forrest and George Chakiris
  • "Now You Has Jazz" - Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong
  • "Well, Did You Evah!" - Cole Porter and Cast
  • Finale - Cast


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