Linda Darnell Janet Blair Jimmy Durante Andy
Lina Romay performs the song "Chiu Chiu," while William Gargan, Ed Brophy, Sterling Holloway, and Robert Benchley appear together as a group of attractive leading men, with Alan Hale, Hugh Herbert, Andy Devine, and Alan Jenkins forming a second similar group. The date listed is when the episode was recorded.
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When performer Linda Darnell agrees to let a singing group of four perform in her evening show, she discovers various solo acts and comedy teams keep joining and leaving the stage, forcing her to figure out how to turn a night of mixed-up musical acts into a hit. Jimmy Durante leads the crowded lineup of singers and comedians.
After entertainer Linda Darnell accepts a troop-requested quartet for the night show, she finds a series of soloists and comic quartets slipping in and out, leaving her to find a way to make a night of mismatched musical efforts finally succeed. Jimmy Durante dominates the busy cast of singers and comics.
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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“Linda Darnell Janet Blair Jimmy Durante Andy.” Command Performance. Radio broadcast, January 11, 1945.
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