Ford Star Revue is an American television variety series that was broadcast on NBC as the summer replacement for Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge from July 6, 1950, to September 28, 1950.
[3] Guest performers on the series included Jack La Rue,[4] Lauritz Melchior, Jackie Gleason, Morey Amsterdam, Henny Youngman, Ed Wynn,[5] Colette Marchand,[6] and the dance team of Honi Coles and Cholly Atkins.
[9] After the show had been on the air for a month in 1950, a review in the trade publication Variety said that Ford Star Revue "has seldom hit top stride since its inception".
The review concluded, "Although there is definitely a lot of room for improvement, we feel that Haley will come through and in a very few weeks will rate well ..."[11] Ben Gross wrote in the New York Daily News that the show's initial 1951 episode "had a considerable number of attractive facets", but it suffered from poor writing.
[5] He cited one comedy sketch in which, before it ended, "the lines had bogged down in the mire of mediocrity," and added that despite "a few flashes of real fun", the overall result was "a mild tedium".