Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Dinah Shore | Groucho Marx

1959 episode. Dinah’s guests are dancer Gwen Verdon, comedians Groucho Marx and Carl Reiner and boxer Ingemar Johansson. Dinah sings a medley of tunes from her new LP, and teams with Groucho for “Peasy Weasy.” Verdon does her Irby Fitch production from “Redhead.” Gwen and Dinah flirt shamelessly with Ingemar as he gives them boxing lessons. .

Directors: Bob Finkel, Dean Whitmore
Writers: Charles Isaacs, Carl Reiner
Stars: Dinah Shore, Ingemar Johansson, Groucho Marx

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to May 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was “See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet”, which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.

NBC first tested the singing star in an hour long format with two prime time specials early in 1956. The first Chevy Show episode aired on October 5, 1956, with Frank Sinatra as guest. By this time, Shore was already a veteran television performer, having hosted five seasons of the 15-minute-long Dinah Shore Show, also sustained by Chevrolet. It was in its final season (the final season for all 15-minute prime time network entertainment series) when The Dinah Shore Chevy Show was launched. The series featured celebrity guests from the worlds of music, theater, sports, and movies. During the fourth season, Carl Reiner was one of the show’s writers and sometimes appeared on-camera as well, adding levity to a show which primarily focused on music.

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