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JACK DONOHUE SIGNED TO PRODUCE-DIRECT 'THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW' COLORCAST SPECIAL ON THE NBC-TV NETWORK NOVEMBER 22
Veteran musical director Jack Donohue has been signed to produce and direct the first of two full-hour colorcasts of "The Dean Martin Show" on the NBC-TV Network during the 1958-59 season.
The first special will be on Saturday, Nov. 22 (9 to 10 p.m., EST) .
Donohue, currently staging "The Ed Wynn Show" on the NBC-TV Network, Thursdays, is no newcomer to live TV. He directed the Prank Sinatra series on another network last year, plus several of "The George Gobel Show" colorcasts and Sinatra's "Club Oasis" appearance on NBC-TV. He directed Dean Martin's, NBC-TV Network Special last February.
A dance director since 1933* when Oscar Hammerstein .signed him for "Ball at the Savoy" in England, Donohue has staged scores of big musicals on Broadway, in Europe in the movies and TV.
He has worked with many top names in showbusiness, including Beatrice Lillie, Will Rogers, Red Skelton, Shirley Temple and Doris Day.
His Broadway credits include "Mr. Wonderful,"
"Rumple," and "Top Banana." Among his movie assignments were "Calamity Jane" and "Lucky M" for Warner Brothers and "Closeup" for M-G-M. In recent years, he worked at the Greek Theatre in Hollywood and with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Festival.
Donohue entered showbusiness when still a teenager, as
a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies.
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NBC, New York 10/6/58
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