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The Big Show presented a weekly combination of comedy, dilemma, and music from such guest actors as Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, Danny Thomas, Groucho Marx, Fanny Brice, Bob Desire, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallee, Judy Garland, and Fred Allen - the second option graduating to semiregular/contributing writer status. Actually each program found the guests launching themselves by name; the introductions finished with a husky tone intoning, "...and my name, dahlings, is Tallulah Bankhead". Bankhead, a famous stage veteran renowned for her work in takes on like The Little Foxes and The Skin of Our Pearly whites, 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 countless series of "rivalry with Bette Davis" jokes. In explaining her drive for agreeing to sponsor a every week radio series, she informed Newsweek Newspaper, "I must stay in the style, dahling, to which I'm really accustomed."
