Small House of Everything

Small House of Everything

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

OVERLOOKED TELEVISION: THE LIBERACE SHOW

So we tried to watch the HBO movie Behind the Candelabra the other day and gave up rather quickly.  Be honest now, have you watched it to the end?  If you did, did they give you a medal or bonus points or extra air mails or something?  Anything?  A certificate of valor, at the very least?

But it got me thinking.  My old (and I do mean old) babysitter, Minnie Brown, loved The Liberace Show.   (She also loved Bud Collier's Beat the Clock and Jack Webb's Dragnet.  Life was much simpler then.)  As a result, I got to see a lot of Mr. Glitter when I was a kid and his show was actually pretty entertaining, IMHO.

Judge for yourself.  From 1955:

http://archive.org/details/The_Liberace_Show_1955

3 comments:

  1. This was a viewing staple in our house when I was a kid.

    As for the recent movie, Judy watched it all the way to the end and didn't get a medal or a prize.

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  2. We gave up after an hour. Why not make a movie exploring his mystique? I saw him once at the Latin Casino in New Jersey. I was fifteen, I think. Not sure why they let teenagers on dates in but I wore a prom dress. I thought he was ridiculous then and still do. But I did go to his site in Las Vegas before they tore it down.

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