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The Big Show offered a weekly mixture of comedy, dilemma, and music from such visitor superstars as Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, Danny Thomas, Groucho Marx, Fanny Brice, Bob Wish, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallee, Judy Garland, and Fred Allen - the second option graduating to semiregular/contributing writer status. Actually each program found the guests presenting themselves by name; the introductions finished with a husky tone of voice intoning, "...and my name, dahlings, is Tallulah Bankhead". Bankhead, a celebrated stage veteran renowned for her work in works like The Little Foxes and The Pores and 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 limitless group of "rivalry with Bette Davis" jokes. In describing her motivation for agreeing to hold a each week radio series, she informed Newsweek Publication, "I have to stay in the style, dahling, to which I'm really accustomed."
