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The Red Skelton Show

Television series

Not to be confused with The Red Skelton Program.

The Red Skelton Show

Red Skelton and Mickey Rooney at dress rehearsal for The Red Skelton Show at studio 33, January 15, 1957.

Also known asThe Red Skelton Hour
GenreVariety
Directed bySeymour Berns
Jack Donohue
John Gaunt
Ed Hiller
Bill Hobin
Terry Kyne
Howard A. Quinn
Martin Rackin
Presented byRed Skelton
Voices ofArt Gilmore
Theme music composerDavid Rose
Opening theme"Holiday for Strings".[1]
(Date of Registration with U.S. Copyright 26-3-1942)[2]
ComposersDavid Rose
Jack Lloyd
Alan Copeland
Nelson Barclift
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons20
No. of episodes672
Executive producerGuy Della-Cioppa
ProducersCecil Barker
Seymour Berns
Ben Brady
Dee Caruso
Perry Cross
Gerald Gardner
Red Skelton
Douglas Whitney
Running time22–24 minutes
(1951–1962; 1970–1971)
45–48 minutes
(1954; 1962–1970)
Production companiesVan Bernard Productions
Sursum

Red Skelton

American comedian (1913–1997)

Not to be confused with Red skeleton.

Red Skelton

Skelton in 1960

Born

Richard Bernard Eheart


(1913-07-18)July 18, 1913

Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.

DiedSeptember 17, 1997(1997-09-17) (aged 84)

Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.

Resting placeForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
Occupations
Years active1923–1993
Spouses

Edna Marie Stillwell

(m. 1931; div. 1943)​

Georgia Davis

(m. 1945; div. 1971)​

Lothian Toland

(m. 1973)​
Children2

Richard Bernard Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American entertainer best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971, especially as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show. He has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio and television, and also appeared in burlesque, vaudeville, films, nightclubs,

Now Performing in the Red Skelton Tribute Theater
167 East Wears Valley Road Suite #17 (Shops of Pigeon Forge) Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

 

        

 

Red Skelton on Radio

 

 

Before Red Skelton ever had his own radio show, he appeared on the Rudy Vallee show August 12th, 1937.

 

He was given a great introduction about how Red was a funny man that was going places. His career was on the move and most of his comedy was observational humor. Red Skelton did a bit he had been doing in Vaudeville, the routine was called "Dunking Donuts".

 

Red Skelton always was one who liked to wander off script a bit and do a few adlibs. Rudy Vallee was a man who did just just the opposit, he stuck to what the script said. When these two got together it was reported that after a few of Red's adlibs Rudy was lost and threw the script on the floor. Red Skelton was noted as saying all of Rudy's Ad-libs were all over the floor.

 

The show received many letters requesting that Red appear

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