Talk-show. Moderuje herečka Tallulah Bankhead.
Účinkují Groucho Marx, Ethel Merman, Bob Hope, Bette Davis a další.
Natočeno 1950.
Lit.: Gottlieb, Robert: Dah-ling. The strange case of Tallulah Bankhead. In web New Yorker, 8. 5. 2005 (článek). – Cit.: (…) In 1950, Tallulah ushered out commercial radio with a bang as the m.c. of a weekly hour-and-a-half extravaganza called “The Big Show.” To everybody’s surprise, including her own, it not only was hailed by critics as the potential savior of radio but was an immediate hit. (A friend of mine says it awakened his “sequin gene.”) Listening to air checks of “The Big Show” today is like slipping through a crack in time: Ethel Merman is plugging “Call Me Madam” and trading insults with “Tallu”; beloved Jimmy Durante is making a hash of his lines; Groucho Marx is singing “Some Enchanted Evening” with a Yiddish accent; Bob Hope is cracking Jack Benny jokes; Tallulah is cracking Bette Davis jokes when she isn’t reciting Dorothy Parker monologues. You rise to her generosity, her sense of fun, her self-deprecation, her giggle—and her unerring timing. This was a deserved but short-lived success, as radio inevitably lost out to television. (…)