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    The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, also known as The American Road, was a two-hour television special that was broadcast live on June 15, 1953, from 9 p...
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    Kukla, Fran and Ollie (category American television shows featuring puppetry)
    1953, Kukla and Ollie co-hosted The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, a program that was broadcast live on both NBC and CBS. The puppets introduced various sketches...
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    program of Henry Ford College Henry Ford II High School, in Sterling Heights, Michigan, is named for him The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953) - Broadcast...
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    Marian Anderson (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, which was broadcast live from New York City on both NBC and CBS. Midway through the program, she sang "He's Got the Whole...
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  • broadcast live over the NBC and CBS networks, as part of The Ford 50th Anniversary Show. The song is also featured in the 1954 movie of the same name, where...
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    and Tahiti. The Sniper (1952) as Man Pressing Clothes at Dry Cleaners (uncredited) The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953) Wagon Train The Vincent Englewood...
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    Edward R. Murrow (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    1953, Murrow hosted The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, broadcast simultaneously on NBC and CBS and seen by 60 million viewers. The broadcast closed with...
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    Wilder himself as the Stage Manager and Dorothy McGuire as Emily. In 1953, The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, broadcast live on both the CBS and NBC television...
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    Music that opened the same year. Hayward's forays into television were similarly notable. He produced The Ford 50th Anniversary Show on June 15, 1953,...
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  • Hallmark Cards as part of the Hallmark Television Playhouse) and the Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953, a two-hour variety show simulcast on both CBS and...
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    1953: The company celebrated its 50th anniversary by purchasing two hours of prime time on the CBS and NBC networks for The Ford 50th Anniversary Show that...
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  • broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera, The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, Caesar's Hour, the award-winning 1955 television broadcast of Peter Pan, and the Royal Ballet's...
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    the Soviet Union, reporting live via radio. In 1953, Thomas was featured in The Ford 50th Anniversary Show that was broadcast simultaneously on the NBC...
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  • the song before a live television audience of 60 million persons, broadcast live over the NBC and CBS networks, as part of The Ford 50th Anniversary Show...
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  • Life with Father (category Fiction set in the 1880s)
    consultation with Warner films on staging. In 1953, The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, broadcast live on both the CBS and NBC television networks, opened with Oscar...
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    the song before a television audience of 60 million persons, broadcast live over the NBC and CBS networks, as part of The Ford 50th Anniversary Show....
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    Australia. The 2015 Mustang marked the 50th anniversary of continuous Mustang production, which began in March 1964 in advance of the debut of the original...
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  • (broadcast live over the NBC and CBS networks) as part of The Ford 50th Anniversary Show. On 23 April 1961, Judy Garland performed the song at the Judy at Carnegie...
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    Mary Martin (category Alumni of the Royal College of Art)
    Rodgers (1951) The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953) (song medley duet with Ethel Merman, aired on NBC and CBS) General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute...
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    There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Among many accolades, she received the Tony Award for Best Actress...
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  • The 50th Anniversary Saturn Awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films and honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy...
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    1941. Vallée sold the show as a pilot to NBC. Vallée and Byrd also worked on a proposed radio show based on the comic strip Hawkshaw the Detective. However...
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  • the song before a live television audience of 60 million persons (broadcast live over the NBC and CBS networks) as part of The Ford 50th Anniversary Show...
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    Jerome Robbins (category People from the Upper East Side)
    sketches for The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, starring Mary Martin and Ethel Merman on CBS. In 1954, Robbins collaborated with George Abbott on The Pajama Game...
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    components and the distinct Terlingua Racing Team badging. On the 50th anniversary of the Rent-a-Racer program, Ford, Hertz and Shelby introduced the 2016 Shelby...
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  • Products. The awards were selected by a committee of 16 judges led by Deems Taylor. The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, a two-hour variety show broadcast...
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  • Edition Dinosaur Edition Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Edition Doctor Who Edition Doctor Who Villains Edition The Dog Artist Edition Dog Lover's Edition...
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    numbered dashboard plaque. 2005 50th Anniversary Cashmere Special Edition: In 2005, Ford celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Ford Thunderbird. All 2005 Thunderbirds...
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  • within the year, on November 23, 1940. In 1953, a classic vaudeville performance by the Happiness Boys was included in The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, a live...
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  • radio after the war. For television, he was a co-writer for The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953). Teichmann wrote the 1953 hit play The Solid Gold Cadillac...
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