Command Performance
Variety radio revue brings comedy, music, and Hollywood stars to overseas troops by request, with sketches, songs, and sounds.
Command Performance was a radio program which originally aired between 1942 and 1949. The program was broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRS) and transmitted by shortwave to overseas troops — but with few exceptions, it was not broadcast over domestic U.S. radio stations.
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K
Kenneth 'Ken' Carpenter
Announcer

Paul Douglas
Announcer
B
B. S. Pully
Cast
I
Imogen Carpenter
Cast
S
GSuzanne Dalbert
Cast
Glenn Wheaton
Director

Bette Davis
Cast
BBetty Grable
Cast

Bing Crosby
Dick Tracy

Bob Hope
Flattop

Carmen Miranda
Cast

Carole Landis
Cast

Cary Grant
Cast

Cass Daley
Cast

Charles Boyer
Cast

Charles Laughton
Cast

Claudette Colbert
Cast
C
Connie 'Connee' Boswell
Cast

Dinah Shore
Tess Trueheart

Don Wilson
Cast

Dorothy Lamour
Cast

Edgar Bergen
Cast

Ella Mae Morse
Cast
EErroll Garner
Musician

Ethel Merman
Cast

Ethel Waters
Cast

Fanny Brice
Cast
F
Fibber McGee and Molly
Radio Act

Frank Morgan
Cast

Frank Sinatra
Cast

George Burns
Cast

Ginny Simms
Cast

Gracie Allen
Cast

Harry von Zell
Cast

Helen Forrest
Cast

Ida Lupino
Cast

Jack Benny
Cast

Jerry Colonna
Cast

Jimmy Durante
Cast
JJoan Leslie
Cast
JJoe E. Lewis
Cast

John Charles Thomas
Cast

Johnny Mercer
Cast
JJose Iturbi
Cast

Judy Garland
Snowflake
J
Judy Holliday
The Revuers

Kay Kyser
Cast

Linda Darnell
Cast

Lionel Barrymore
Cast
LLotte Lehmann
Soprano

Louis Armstrong
Cast
L
Louis G. Cowan
Creator
L
Lum and Abner
Radio Act
M
Marilyn 'Marvel' Maxwell
Cast

Marlene Dietrich
Cast

Martha Tilton
Cast

Orson Welles
Cast

Paulette Goddard
Cast

Peggy Lee
Cast

Red Skelton
Cast
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