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The Big Show shown a weekly combination of comedy, drama, and music from such guest superstars as Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, Danny Thomas, Groucho Marx, Fanny Brice, Bob Wish, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallee, Judy Garland, and Fred Allen - the latter graduating to semiregular/adding writer status. In fact each program found the guests producing themselves by name, the introductions completed with a husky tone intoning, "...and my name, dahlings, is Tallulah Bankhead". Bankhead, a famous stage veteran renowned for her work in plays like The Little Foxes and The Skin of Our Teeth, offered as the show's mistress of ceremonies - proving to be both an apt foil for the program's guests and a self-deprecating good sport for an never-ending series of "rivalry with Bette Davis" jokes. In describing her determination for agreeing to host a weekly radio series, she told Newsweek Magazine, "I have to reside in the style, dahling, to which I'm really accustomed."
