This Is Your Life: |
Milton Berle |
Premiere: |
June 06, 1956 |
Host: |
Ralph Edwards |
Network: |
NBC-TV |
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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 |