Colgate Comedy Hour 1950. The real FIRST episode aired 9/10/50

This is the REAL first episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour starring Eddie Cantor, air date September 9, 1950. A wonderful crossover from Vaudeville and Broadway to the TV medium. Eddie is at his best, introducing The Eddie Cantor Company off Broadway. Eddie does a comedy skit he remembers from Vaudeville in the 1920's with Lou Hearn and Jack Albertson. He makes the other soldiers start to laugh on live TV in the army skit. In the Vaudeville tradition, a bevy of beautiful girls entertain with dancing and singing. In the beginning, Eddie talks about the show, the sponsor, and how great the shows in the future are going to be. Jack Albertson does the "soft shoe". Our show is edited a bit. Blackface songs and dance, part of the time, are not acceptable today, and have been edited from the show. Mastered from 16mm b-w kinescope film. The Yma Sumac performance of Taita Inty "Hymn of the Sun Virgin" from this show has been released as a separate YouTube upload    • Yma Sumac sings Taita Inty "Hymn of t...