This Is Your Life: Milton Berle
Premiere:   June 06, 1956
Host:   Ralph Edwards
Network:   NBC-TV
Guests   Notes
Frank Berle   Brother; member of his TV production staff
Jack Berle   Brother; member of his TV production staff
Phil Berle   Brother; Program Executive at NBC
Ruth Cosgrove   
(Mrs. Milton) Berle  
Wife (wed 12/9/1953)
Ben Grauer   Radio and TV announcer, moderator and newsman; sang in children's "Floradora" sextet with Berle on Broadway in 1920 (enters in costume)
Irving Gray   Subject's personal manager and executive producer; appears in surprise
Jerry Lewis   Comedian, actor - assists surprise (doing bogus Muscular Dystrophy telethon promo); appears in surprise only
Dean Martin   Comedian, singer, actor - assists surprise (doing bogus Muscular Dystrophy telethon promo); appears in surprise only
Jan Murray   Comedian, friend, star of TV's "Dollar A Second"; Berle helped him when he was starting out by giving material and coming to his show at La Martinique in NYC every night for 2 weeks
Miriam Battista   
(Mrs. Lloyd) Rosamond  
Sang in children's "Floradora" sextet with Berle on Broadway in 1920 (enters in costume); hadn't seen in 26 years
Lillian Roth   Via kinescope from Winnipeg, Canada - singer, attended Professional School together as children - former TIYL Principal Subject {YLN019}
Elizabeth Kennedy   
(Mrs. Al) Schneider  
First professional partner; toured with him in act "Kennedy and Berle" for 4 years in the early 1920's
Phil Silvers   Actor, comedian, star of TV's "Sgt. Bilko", friend from youth; made his first TV appearance on Berle's show "Texaco Star Theatre"
Rosalind   
(Mrs. Charles) Widgerson  
Sister (younger), accompanied Berle and mother on tours
Mildred Wiesenfeld   Founder of the National Council to Combat Blindness; Berle helped her start the Fight for Sight campaign by organizing and emceeing a benefit in 1949