This is Your Life: Danny Thomas 1/2 Hour B/W Kinescope Original NBC Network print with all original commercials as Re-broadcast on September 1, 1954. With guests: Tony Thomas and Marlo Thomas.
Never knew the early part of his life. He overcame many obstacles. St. Jude's Hospital is still going strong. It's amazing the difference one person can make. Such a caring, humble, and charitable man.
When Danny Thomas started St. Judes the survival rate for juvenile cancer was 20% today the survival rate is 80%. Much of the research has and continues to be done at and by St. Judes.
Danny is a saint and is responsible for saving the lives of millions of children. St. Jude has made magnificent strides in the cure of cancer in children. It was 20% before St.Jude and is now 80% curable today. God bless this wonderful good man.
I like that Danny was so sentimental about family and friends that several characters in 'Make Room for Daddy' were named after them - Margaret, Terry, Julia, Tonoose (Anthony), Charley, etc. Some episodes also included what we would now call 'shout outs' featuring real-life professional colleagues such as columnist Earl Wilson and Jack Entrater of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.
One day I went into a fast food place at the corner of Sunset Blvd & Vine St when I lived in Hollywood many years ago, and who did I see standing in line like every one else: Danny Thomas. He was truly a humble man (by the way, the studio where this show was filmed in the 1950's was approx. 5 blocks from where I saw Danny in the early 1980's.) It REALLY is a small world after all
St Jude is the patron saint of lost causes. When Danny was down on his luck, he prayed to St. Jude for help. He told her if she sent him success he would build a shrine to her, hence St.Jude’s Childrens Hospital ❤🙏🏻
His real birth name was Muzyad Yakhoob, then his parents later changed his name to Amos Joseph Jacobs until finally he decided to change his name to Danny Thomas a name that he took from the first names of two of his brothers, Danny after his younger brother and Thomas after his eldest brother. God bless him.
He took the names of his two brothers as his professional name..When Danny began his solor show biz career..performing at a Chicago nightclub..singing and telling a story of a crazy lady..driving a deli owner..nuts..by having him..slice alot of lox..but only buying piece of the fish.
People talked about their faith and weren't ashamed about it either. They talked about God and weren't ashamed of it either. We need God back in our lives. Look whats happened when they started taking God and family, and decency out of our lives.
@@57andstillkicking sorry, I find it hilarious. People get mental health care for their kids if they have an imaginary friend. We should do the same thing for adults who also indulge in fantasy.
@@thegreatselkie6009 It’s not fantasy to worship the One who created us,who is not imaginary. I’m sorry if you have been hurt by religion. Religion absolutely hurts people. Jesus never does.
A very young Marlo i loved her in That girl. One of the great shows of That girl is her dad playing a priest and she runs into him in a lobby. She says sorry father and he said that's alright my child!
That's because she later had her nose fixed- without Danny's approval. He believed that people would accept him for what he was- NOSE and all (he lost the opportunity to become a star at MGM in the late 1940's because he refused to alter his beak, on Louis B. Mayer's suggestion).
I have on DVD, some of the early "Make Room for Daddy" programs in the early 1950s, with their original commercials, and YES, I'm talking about cigarette commercials. But the programs I saw later in the early 1960s were sponsored by Post cereal.
Danny had several sponsors before he moved from ABC to CBS in 1957 (for General Foods, on behalf of Post cereals and Maxwell House). Originally, American Tobacco [Pall Mall] was his primary sponsor from 1953 through '56, with Speidel watchbands as his alternate sponsor during the first half of the 1953-'54 season- then Chrysler's Dodge division replaced them through the end of the 1955-'56 season. In the fall of 1956......his last on ABC, as "THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW".....Danny was sponsored by Kimberly-Clark [Kleenex] and Armour & Co. [Dial soap].
During the summer, Ralph Edwards would raid his kinescope archives and repeat what he considered the best "subjects" of the current season {"repeated by popular demand!"}. This one was originally presented on January 27, 1954.
By the third season of "MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY", Danny wasn't satisfied with Jean or her appearance. And when her husband insisted he wouldn't let her be directed by "that gangster actor" {Sheldon Leonard, who became Danny's production partner}, that was the "deal breaker". He got rid of Jean before the fourth season- and made sure she'd never appear again by having "Margaret Williams" die off-camera, leaving him a widower [the show's title was also changed to "THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW"]. It took him the better part of a season to find a suitable replacement....which was Marjorie Lord (as "Kathy").
My grandparents flew from Ca back to Ohio in the mid 80’s. Danny was on their flight. So was Sid Cesar. My grandpa got a cigar from Danny. Even got his picture in our local paper. I remember meeting Danny when I was about 6 or 7. It was wonderful. I still remember meeting him in the luggage area at Hopkins Airport.
How awesome is this….@27:30…Ralph Edwards speaks about Danny Thomas’ dedication to the building of St. Jude’s Hospital for Children…now look to his left…that little girl next to him…I think we ALL know who that is…
They should have let the older woman sit down, they could have brought out a chair! Danny seems like a kind hearted person, and of course he was a man of faith.
I have to say that shows like this aren't exactly for the faint of heart. You would have to be a good sport to be if you will, "ambushed" I mean that word in the absolutely best sense.
About 6:50, Danny said when he was born, he was delivered by a horse doctor. I knew this long ago, before I had a tablet, I read Danny's autobiography; the vet called Danny a "fine young colt". Later this program doesn't mention, in the 1940s,when his movie career was starting, a movie producer was saying to him to "fix the beak" ( its obvious he never did).
Danny never let you forget about his Lebanese heritage- especially when he was "Danny Williams", and "Uncle Tonoose" {Hans Conried} appeared [based on the real patriarch of Danny's family].
