4 Pals 11 17 59

Eddie Cantor, George Jessel and Jack Benny kvetch about George Burns hogging the show then quickly join him for a quartet version of 'Pals'. The finale of "The Big Time" the Ford Startime special in living color on NBC. Tuesday, 11/17/59.

[@frisco21]

My grandmother, Sophie Perlmutter, adored these guys. The highlight of her life was when George Jessel and Henny Youngman did a charity benefit at her temple. She talked about that night for years, until her death at 97.

[@Lgevirtz]

Four true legends!!

[@Brace67]

What talent on that stage so long ago. Just four Jewish guys trying to make a living in show business. Such fast friends over the many years since the days of vaudeville.

[@jerryjohnson8485]

4wonderful comics!!

[@CarlDuke]

Fantastic. Jack inserts part of his Goldie Fields and Glide routine here.

[@dmiller1000]

Guessing this was on color videotape originally. Maybe it's sitting around in Ford vaults somewhere.

[@DrDespicable]

"I can make this show run an hour and a half..."

[@CarlDuke]

Cantor, Burns, Benny and Jessel. Only Jolson is missing.

[@DrDespicable]

Jack wanted too much for the shovel-rental to dig him up...

[@MartinTellColomboFernandez]

Yes, saddly he was 9 years dead (He died in 1950).

[@Lampshade51]

One of Cantor's last TV appearances.
Does anyone have the color videotape version of this?

[@treybratcher9295]

too much talent for one screen

[@antoniod]

Cantor sounds really tired here, but that's not surprising considering his health problems.

[@StevenTorrey]

When comedy was funny (& king)!

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

And clean.

[@kevinmiller6380]

Don't sing too loud. 😄😄😄😄😄😄