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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Mikado : Bell Telephone Hour 1960 / music by Arthur Sullivan ; libretto by W.S. Gilbert ; a production of Henry Jaffe Enterprises. Inc. ; adapted for television by Martyn Green.

Publisher, Date:

Pleasantville, NY : Video Artists International, [2012]

Description:

1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file region 0

DVD video

Summary:

For the legendary comic actor Groucho Marx, playing the role of Ko-Ko in The Mikado fulfilled a lifelong ambition. The Mikado was Groucho's favorite among the works of his beloved Gilbert and Sullivan, and the 1960 Bell Telephone Hour production was adapted for television and directed by Martyn Green, a man Groucho revered as an authority on interpreting the role of Ko-Ko.

Subjects:

Operas.

Genre:

Television programs.

Opera television programs.

Operas.

Other Author:

Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900, composer.

Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911, librettist.

Marx, Groucho, 1890-1977, singer.

Holloway, Stanley, singer.

Traubel, Helen, singer.

King, Dennis, 1897-1971, singer.

Rounseville, Robert, singer.

Meister, Barbara (Soprano), singer.

Marx, Melinda, singer.

Randall, Sharon (Mezzo-soprano), singer.

Voorhees, Donald, conductor.

Green, Martyn, 1899-1975, host, television producer.

Campbell, Norman, 1924-2004, television director.

Television adaptation of (work): Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Mikado.

Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, instrumentalist.

Norman Luboff Choir, singer.

Henry Jaffe Enterprises, production company.

Video Artists International, publisher.

Other Title:

Groucho Marx : The Mikado : Bell Telephone Hour 1960

Bell Telephone hour (Television program)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on television April 29, 1960.

Special features: The Mikado Revisited: audio commentary by Dick Cavett, Melinda Marx Leung, Barbara Meister and more (27 minutes); commercials from the original 1960 telecast; Martyn Green in scenes from H.M.S. Pinafore (12 minutes).

Host/producer, Martyn Green; director, Norman Campbell.

Groucho Marx (Ko-Ko), Helen Traubel (Katisha), Stanley Holloway (Pooh-Bah), Dennis King (The Mikado), Robert Rounseville (Nanki-Poo), Barbara Meister (Yum-Yum), Melinda Marx (Peep-Bo), Sharon Randall (Pitti-Sing); Martyn Green, host; The Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra; Normal Luboff Choir; Donald Voorhees, conductor.

DVD, region 0, full screen (4:3) presentation, mono., NTSC.

Publisher Number:

4554

Other Number:

801842031

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

969702

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV Mikado