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OLYMPIC FUND TELETHON

Air Date/Released Sunday, June 22, 1952
Station/Studio NBC and CBS
Host/Star Bob Hope & Bing Crosby
Featuring Moe, Larry and Shemp

Hollywood stars gathered in a fundraiser for the financially strapped U.S. Olympic Committee, benefiting the athletes headed to Helsinki, Finland for the 1952 Olympics in July. Broadcast live on two networks from Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre, it aired from June 21 @ 8PM to June 22 @ 10:30PM Pacific Times. The first nationally telecast telethon.

The Stooges appeared on the 22nd at the $59K mark. Additional details of their appearance are unknown at this time.


Cast: Bob Hope & Bing Crosby (Hosts), Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Johnny Grant, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Spike Jones & His Orchestra, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, George Burns, Gracie Allen, June Allyson, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Rosemary Clooney, Joan Crawford, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Margaret O'Brien, Edgar Bergen, Tex Ritter, Edward G. Robinson, Frank Sinatra, Ed Sullivan, Johnny Weismuller, Fred MacMurray, Governor Earl Warren, Dorothy Lamour

Crew: Norman Blackburn (Producer)
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