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The Big Show presented a weekly combination of comedy, drama, and music from such visitor superstars as Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, Danny Thomas, Groucho Marx, Fanny Brice, Bob Anticipation, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallee, Judy Garland, and Fred Allen - the second option graduating to semiregular/contributing writer status. In fact each program found the guests adding themselves by name; the introductions finished with a husky tone of voice intoning, "...and my name, dahlings, is Tallulah Bankhead". Bankhead, a famous level veteran renowned for her work in plays like The Little Foxes and The Epidermis of Our Pearly whites, served 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 desire for agreeing to number a every week radio series, she told Newsweek Publication, "I must live in the style, dahling, to which I'm really accustomed."

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