Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Video: "See You At the Polls" Election PSA (1956) with Groucho and Bob Hope

Here's a great 30 minute PSA film hosted by Bob Hope! "See You At the Polls" was produced by the Heritage Foundation and the Ad Council.

From the jeffsabu YouTube page.

Groucho shows up with George Fenneman around six minutes in, with an appeal to the public to exercise their right to vote, oddly sincere considering it's Groucho!

Also featured: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Spring Byington, Danny Thomas, Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, William Bendix, and many more.

This note from @fromthesidelines is on the YouTube page:

 "Incidentally, most of the segments were lifted from other TV shows and movie excerpts. For example, Bing's musical number was originally featured on the March 21, 1954 filmed episode of 'THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM.' Rosie Clooney's musical segment was from her syndicated TV series. Bob Hope and Jane Russell in an excerpt from 'The Paleface' (1948). Ethel Merman and Donald O'Connor in a number from 'Call Me Madam' (1953). And Byron Palmer was in a segment from the syndicated 'THIS IS YOUR MUSIC' series. Jimmy Durante, Anna Maria Alberghetti and Peter Lawford's musical number was originally presented on the final episode of Durante's 'TEXACO STAR THEATRE' [June 23, 1956]."

  

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