The Hollywood Palace — Season 1, Episode 11: Host: Groucho Marx
Comedy • 60 min • 7 seasons, 194 episodes • ★ 5.0/10
Episode synopsis
Guests: --Groucho Marx (host) --Morey Amsterdam & Rose Marie (comedians, from ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"") --Jose Greco (flamenco dancer with his dance troupe) --Jennie Smith (singer) - ""You and the Night and the Music"" --Gilbert Becaud (French pop singer) - ""More"" & ""What Now My Love"" --Lee Allen (roller-skating comedian) - performs a comedy routine about drunks --The Andre Tahon Puppets - sing ""I Feel Pretty"" in a mouse version of ""West Side Story"" --Bertha the Elephant (dancing, balancing elephant) Comedy sketch: --A society matron, played by Dee Hartford, isn't convinced that ""Dr. Hackenbush"" (Groucho) is a real doctor. It could be because all his nurses look more like chorus girls. Groucho Marx sings ""I'm Dr. Hackenbush"" in a the sketch.
About The Hollywood Palace
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.