Episode
The Dick Cavett Show: George Burns, author Adelle Davis and The Smothers Brothers
Overview
Details for The Dick Cavett Show: George Burns, author Adelle Davis and The Smothers Brothers, powered by TMDB.
Details
- Series
- The Dick Cavett Show
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 55
- Air date
- 1971-12-15
- Runtime
- 90 min
Episode context
George Burns, author Adelle Davis and The Smothers Brothers is Episode 55 in Season 6 of The Dick Cavett Show. It aired on 1971-12-15. The runtime is 90 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 42: George Harrison, Mick Jones, Gary Wright & Wonderwheel, Ravi Shankar
Host Dick Cavett welcomes guests singer-songwriter-musician George Harrison, musician Ravi Shankar and Gary Wright & the Wonderwheel.
Episode 56: Groucho Marx, Erin Fleming
Host Dick Cavett welcomes guests actor-comedian Groucho Marx, actress Debbie Reynolds, comedian Dan Rowan and Erin Fleming.
More episodes from this season
Episode 39: Bette Davis
Dick interviews legendary actress Bette Davis. The two-time Oscar winner reads a scene (with Dick) from "Dark Victory" (1939) and sings, "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" and "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". Reflecting on a 43 year career, Miss Davis comments on notables like Errol Flynn ("He thought I was a fool for working so hard") and Greta Garbo ("It's my dying ambition to meet her") and recites her favorite line: "I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair." Also Whitney Stine, author of a recent Davis biography.
Episode 68: Sen. Edward Kennedy, Charlotte Curtis, Al Green
Episode 34: Don Rickles, Beverly Sills, Phyllis Kirk, Earl Wilson
Episode 79: Frank Capra, Mel Brooks, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich
Host Dick Cavett welcomes guests directors Mel Brooks, Frank Capra, Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich.
Episode 23: Woody Allen
Host Dick Cavett welcomes solo guest director Woody Allen who plays the clarinet.
Episode 100: John Huston
Host Dick Cavett welcomes guest director John Huston.
Episode 21: Mort Sahl, B.B. King, Don Meredith, Veruschka von Lehndorff
Dick Cavett hosts; guests include model Veruschka von Lehndorff, blues musician B.B. King, humorist Mort Sahl, and football sportscaster Don Meredith.
Episode 170: John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Shirley MacLaine
Episode 19: Fred Astaire
Host Dick Cavett welcomes solo guest singer-dancer-actor Fred Astaire.
Episode 174: Alfred Hitchcock
Dick Cavett spends 90 minutes with legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock in a 1972 interview. Hitch discusses cinema, his life and career, and explains how he pulled off some "ingenious" special effects in his movies. He also discusses actors, screen violence and how he enjoys watching an audience "dipping their toe in the cold water of fear." Included are clips from his films "Psycho," "The Birds" & "Frenzy".