Did Dooley Wilson actually play the piano in Casablanca (1942)?
No, Dooley Wilson didn’t actually play the piano in Casablanca (1942).
Wilson sang in the movie, but couldn’t play piano.
Accompaniment was dubbed in.
No, Dooley Wilson didn’t actually play the piano in Casablanca (1942).
Wilson sang in the movie, but couldn’t play piano.
Accompaniment was dubbed in.
Chuckles the Clown’s sign-off line on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” (CBS, 1970-77) was “A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.” The words were remembered by those mourning Chuckles’s death after he was killed by a rogue elephant. Chuckles was dressed as Peter Peanut at the time.
In a set of five episodes on the TV series “Wiseguy”, Jerry Lewis played New York garment mogul Eli Sternberg.
The seventeen-year Goodson-Todman production “What’s My Line” was hosted by John Daly and featured these panelists: Hal Block (1950-53), Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen (1950-65), Louis Untermeyer (1950-51), Bennett Cerf (1951-67), Steve Allen (1953-54), and Fred Allen (1954-56).
Walter Cronkite hosted the TV game show “It’s News to Me” (CBS, 1951-54).
James Mason played Tiberius, John McEnery played Caligula, Richard Kiley played Claudius, and Anthony Andrews played Nero in the miniseries “A.D.” (Anno Domini) (NBC, 1985).
A TV network president accept an Emmy and said, “This is the best show I ever canceled” for “He and She,” which ran in 1967-68 on CBS and starred Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss. The network president was Mike Dann, of CBS.