Marlon Brando in a series episode, with "Little Leo"
Genre
Documentary
Starring
George Murphy (1955–56) Walter Pidgeon (1956)
Theme music composer
Arthur Schwartz Howard Dietz
Opening theme
"That's Entertainment"
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
34
Production
Executive producer
Leslie Petersen
Running time
26 minutes (minus commercials)
Production company
MGM Television
Original release
Network
ABC
Release
September 14, 1955 (1955-09-14) – May 2, 1956 (1956-05-02)
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MGM Parade is a documentary television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and broadcast by the ABC network during the 1955–56 season on Wednesdays at 8:30pm (E.S.T.), under the alternate sponsorship of American Tobacco (Pall Mall), and General Foods (Instant Maxwell House).
The 30 minute MGM Parade, one of MGM's first TV programs, was produced by MGM's trailer department as one of the compilation and promotional shows that imitated Walt Disney's Disneyland.[1]
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MGMParade is a documentary television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and broadcast by the ABC network during the 1955–56 season on Wednesdays...
20th Century Fox, MGM attempted to arrange a promotional agreement with NBC, but could not come to terms on the specifics. MGMParade, a 30-minute anthology...
Medallion Theatre, also known as Chrysler Medallion Theatre (1953–54) MGMParade (1955–56) The Millionaire (1955–60) Monodrama Theater (1953) The Motorola...
owned by MGM itself. Note: (*) Denotes public domain. MGMParade (1955–1956) The Thin Man (1957–1959)* (Based on the 1934 film and its sequels by MGM) (co-production...
MGM's top directors. The Big Parade survives in a print of the 1930 sound version. The original silent version is now lost. In 1992, The Big Parade was...
cast recordings. Among MGM's most successful soundtrack albums were those of the films Good News (the 1947 version), Easter Parade, Annie Get Your Gun,...
Also, a couple of the major film studios copied the show's format with MGMParade and Warner Bros. Presents. Both shows did not last. With the series' "Davy...
(MGM, 1971) Silk & Soul (MGM, 1972) A Man of Value (MGM, 1972) The Soul of Nigger Charley with Don Costa (MGM, 1973) Live at the Century Plaza (MGM, 1973)...
for $30,000 (equivalent to $669,951 in 2023). Under exclusive contract to MGM, she became one of the studio's most popular actresses. She starred in Red-Headed...
needed] Initial plans for a second theme park, named Disney-MGM Studios Europe or Disney-MGM Studios Paris, were scheduled to open in 1995, though these...
Show. In 1955 Atlas was appointed associate producer of MGM's first television program, MGMParade, which ran for 34 weeks with actor George Murphy as host...
and Deep in My Heart (1954). He produced a documentary series titled MGMParade, and wrote the musicals Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) and Silk Stockings...
of MGM's top leading ladies Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer. She died at the age of 26 of kidney failure while filming Saratoga. MGM completed...
"Parade of the West". TCM. Retrieved September 4, 2018. "Paradise Island". American Film Institute. Retrieved September 4, 2018. "Paramount on Parade"...
outside of its own library, mainly through its licensing agreement with MGM and later Turner Entertainment. Turner subsidiary, Turner Classic Movies...
Healy at MGM: the plumbing sequences are adapted from Meet the Baron and several waiter gags are borrowed from Beer and Pretzels. Swing Parade of 1946...
interviewer. In 1991, the first year there was a parade from both Magic Kingdom Park and (then) Disney-MGM Studios, Philbin and Lunden began a five year...
brought Fred Astaire to MGM after Astaire's tenure at RKO and coaxed him out of semi-retirement to star with Garland in Easter Parade. His team of writers...
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