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There is no guarantee that if you cross a brilliant, if highly extravagant, film director with a brilliant, if highly erratic, film star you're going to breed another brilliant entertainer. The genetics of showbusiness are not usually so obliging. Yet that is precisely what happened with Vincente, Judy and Liza. Between the three of them they represent an immense cornering of 20th-century talent. The first of six programmes
Vincente Minnelli - From Canvas to Celluloid
Including the remarks of PANDRO BERMAN.
SAUL CHAPLIN , ALAN J. LERNER VINCENTE MINNELLI , JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR and CHARLES WALTERS Presented by Denis Norden with comments from Benny Green
Script PETER CLAYTON
Research BILL SULLIVAN Producer
DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN

Contributors

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Vincente Minnelli
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Pandro Berman.
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Saul Chaplin
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Alan J. Lerner
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Vincente Minnelli
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John Russell Taylor
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Charles Walters
Presented By:
Denis Norden
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Benny Green
Script:
Peter Clayton
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Research Bill Sullivan
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David Rayvern Allen

The last of eight programmes introduced by Max Bygraves
Seventy years of the finest popular entertainment as presented at the world's premier variety theatre. Fighting for Survival
Moving pictures, wireless, talkies and television - all in their turn have caused the Palladium to fight for its audiences. Now. with Variety all but dead, the new video age threatens its very survival. with special contributions from Louis Benjamin Pat Boone.
Sammy Davis Jr. Danny Kaye
Harry" Secombe. Wendy Toye Tommy Trinder and the voices of many others.
Written by MICHAEL POINTON Additional research PETER BOND and BARBRA PASKIN
Producer JOHN DYAS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Max Bygraves
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Louis Benjamin
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Pat Boone.
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Sammy Davis Jr.
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Danny Kaye
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Tommy Trinder
Written By:
Michael Pointon
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Peter Bond
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Barbra Paskin
Producer:
John Dyas

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