Joey Heatherton is a actress, dancer, and singer. She began
her career as a child actress, appearing in 1959 as a member
of the ensemble and an understudy in the original Broadway
production of The Sound of Music. Joey received her first
national exposure that same year as a semi-regular on the
The Perry Como Show on NBC-TV from 1955 to 1959. She
also traveled with Bob Hope’s USO troupe between 1965
and 1977, entertaining the GIs with her singing, dancing
and of course, her provocative outfits.

Joey Heatherton with Bob Hope

Joey is on deck

 
Eddie Cantor

The Colgate Comedy Hour was a comedy variety series that ran on NBC-TV
from September 1950 to December 1955, Sundays at 8:00 p.m. For the first 
year the show was broadcast from New York. Stars of the show were mostly
veterans of vaudeville, Broadway, radio, or movies, who took turns hosting,
in four or five week cycles. In the first few seasons, those most frequently
seen were Eddie Cantor (above), who was the first host, Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Abbott & Costello, Donald O’Connor,
and Jimmy Durante. The Colgate Comedy Hour was truly one of the
bright spots of early television.

The career of actress Jo Anne Worley has covered television, films, theater,
both game and talk shows, commercials, and cartoons. She is best known
for part in the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In on NBC from
1968 to 1973.

After a 20-split, Dean Martin (left) made a surprise appearance on Lewis’s annual
Labor Day MDA telethon on September 5, 1976. The meeting had been orchestrated
by a mutual friend, Frank Sinatra.