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One show in television history, more than any other, defines the standards of contemporary American entertainment today: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
After an introduction by Groucho Marx, Johnny stepped through the curtain and onto the stage for the first time in 1962. Broadcasting from studio 6-B in New York City, Johnny infused his late night program with a sparkle of showbiz mixed with boyish charm and a razor sharp wit that never missed. On any given night there was a sense that anything could happen... and with Johnny's band of mischief makers, it usually did.
Johnny's easy going interview style and a mastery of the nightly monologue gave an audience of 12 million fans reason enough to tune in every night. The critically acclaimed show featured career defining performances, legendary hijinks and classic routines from the world's funniest comedians. From the 60's into the 90's The Tonight Show welcomed a parade of Hollywood royalty and some of the most entertaining and influential people of the 20th century.
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Performers
Lesley Gore
USA
Best movies:
Get on Up (2014) - a.f.
Franklyn Ajaye
USA
Best movies:
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Les Banlieusards (1989)
Get Crazy (1983)
Xavier Cugat
Spain
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Tom Smothers
USA
Best movies:
Pandemonium (1982)
Hot Money (1977)
The Informant ! (2009)
Tom Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
Airport '77 (1977)
Hell on the Battleground (1987)
Molly Picon
USA
Best movies:
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
The Naked City (1948)
Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
Peter Lind Hayes
USA
Best movies:
Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
Herschel Bernardi
USA
Best movies:
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
The Savage Eye (1960)
Irma la Douce (1963)
Soupy Sales
USA
Donyale Luna
USA
Pamela Mason
UK
Best movies:
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
The Sandpiper (1965)
Caught (1949)
Yo-Yo Ma
France
Best movies:
Artie Shaw
USA
Best movies:
Second Chorus (1940)
Crash (1978) (TV movie)
Jo Ann Pflug
USA
Best movies:
M.A.S.H. (1970)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
The Night Strangler (1973) (TV movie)
Farrah Fawcett
USA
Best movies:
The Burning Bed (1984) (TV movie)
Children of the Dust (1995) (TV movie)
Ally McBeal (1997) (series)
Teresa Stratas
Canada
Best movies:
Pagliacci (1982) (theatrical recording)
La traviata (1982)
Così fan tutte (1989) (TV movie)
Johnny Mathis
USA
Best movies:
Lizzie (1957)
Just Getting Started (2017)
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995) (TV movie)
Ed Ames
USA
Cleo Laine
UK
Best movies:
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) (TV movie)