TV Guide (November 6, 1954)

Page scan 00047 from TV Guide

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
November 6, 1954
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - New England (November 6, 1954)
Leaf #:
00047
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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“There was a time,” says Eddie Mayehoff, who has a laugh that sounds startlingly like a steam radi¬ ator about to go out of control, “when I was the leading comedian on tele¬ vision. In fact, I was the only come¬ dian on television.” This was back in 1946, when he be¬ came emcee of an NBC hour-long variety show called The Hour Glass. “I had everything,” he remembers, “including a seven-year contract that lasted one year.” Mayehoff, a solidly built gentleman with a remarkably familiar face, went back into left field after that brief sojourn, not returning to the lime¬ light until the Martin & Lewis picture, “That’s My Boy,” offered him the role of Jerry Lewis’ father. Many had turned the role down, not wishing to be trampled all over by Jerry. Maye¬ hoff not only took the role but did a little trampling himself. Cy Howard, the picture’s producer, later brought the property to 'TV and promptly called for Mayehoff. In no time the show was off and running. Eddie Mayehoff: he awoke one day to find it was all too true.