O.T.R. Command Performance

  • COMMAND PERFORMANCE (22 shows)
  • 1. Dec. 19 1942 -
  • 2. Aug. 21 1943 - Ginger Rogers, Mel Blank, Alice Faye (80)
  • 3. Feb. 1 1944 - Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby (104)
  • 4. Feb. 12 1944 - Bob Hope, Judy Garland (106)
  • 5. March 11 1944 - Dinah Shore,Ginny Simms (110)
  • 6. June 3 1944 - Hope Garland Crosby & Lena Horne(122 repeated as show 190)
  • 7. June 3 1944 - Connie Haines, Crosby, Hope, Shirley Ross & lena Horne (123)
  • 8. June 24 1944 - Andrew Sisters, Roy Rogers, Johnny Mercer (126)
  • 9. Jan. 25 1945 - Nelson Eddy, Foy Willing & Andrew Sisters (159)
  • 10. Feb. 15 1945 - Andrew Sisters, Hope, Durante, Garland & Dinah Shore (162)
  • 11. March 8 1945 - E.Taylor M.O'Brien & Crosby Children (165)
  • 12. Aug. 30 1945 - Bogart Bacall Victor Borge (189)
  • 13. Jan. 3 1946 - Van Johnson & Dinah Shore (205)
  • 14. April 14 1946 - Ingrid Berman, Joan Crawford, Charles Boyer & Crosby (217)
  • 15. Sept. 29 1946 - Andre Previn & Phil Silvers (241)
  • 16. Nov. 10 1946 - Gene Kelly & Marie Mcdonald (247)
  • 17. Dec. 26 1946 - Carole Landiis & Jim Durante (254)
  • 18. May 4 1947 - M.Maxwell J.Mercer, Dave Berry & BennyGoodman Sextet (272)
  • 19. Oct. 21 1947 - Doris Day & Jim Backus (300)
  • 20. June 20 1948 - Bud Widom, Virginia Gregg & Vance Colvig (331)
  • 21. May 3 1949 - Gloria DeHaven (375)
  • 22. Dec. 31 1950 - Bob Hope, Van Johnson & Dinah Shore (463)
  • COMMAND PERFORMANCE SPECIALS (7 shows)
  • 1. Aug. 14 1945 - Frank Sinatra, Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball,Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Jimmy Durante, Jinx Falkenberg, Ed Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Jose Iturbi, Ed Gardner, Greer Garson, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, Ida Lupino, Herbert Marshall, Bergess Meredith, Carmen Miranda, Robert Montgomery, Bill Power, Edward G. Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Claire Trevor, Orson Welles, Loretta Young
  • 2. Sept. 2 1945 - V-J Day Program
  • Starring: Bob Hope
  • With: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, and President Harry S. Truman
  • 3. Sept. 13 1945 - Christmas Program
  • Starring: Jerry Calonna
  • With: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Cass Daley, Jimmy Durante, Ed Gardner, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Eddie Jackson, Harry James, Kay Kyser, Frances Langford, Joe Lilley, Herbert Marshall, Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers, Dinah Shore, Ginny Simms, and President Harry S. Truman
  • 4. April 7 1946 - Army Day Program
  • Starring: Bob Hope
  • With: Frank Sinatra, The Andrew Sisters, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Spike Jones, Dinah Shore, Harry Von Zell, and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 5. May 29 1947 - 5th Anniversary Program
  • Starring: Lionel Barrymore
  • With: Frank Sinatra, Fred Allen, Secretary of War Robert P. Anders, Eddie Anderson, Jack Benny, Lt. General J. Lawton Collins, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante, Nelson Eddy, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Peter Lind Hayes, Danny Kaye, Ernest Lubitsch, Paul Lukas, Lauritz Melchior, George Murphy, Lina Romay, Dinah Shore, Ginny Simms, Orson Welles, and Don Wilson
  • 6. May 29 1948 - 6th Anniversary Program
  • Starring: Bob Hope
  • with: Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny, Jerry Calonna, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Bing Crosby, Dennis Day, Jimmy Durante, Rita Hayworth, Betty Hutton, and Dinah Shore
  • 7. May 29 1977 - 35th Anniversary Program
  • Compilation of recordings from the 1940s with: Frank Sinatra, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Fanny Bryce, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Dennis Day, Jimmy Durante, Judy Garland, Dorothy Lamour, Dinah Shore, Red Skelton, Hanley Stafford, and announcer Ken Carpenter