The Great Lover

Green Director's Playhouse stars Bob Hope, Brenda Fleming, Production of the Great Lover, Director Alexander Hall. This is the Screen Director's Playhouse, the Thursday night feature on NBC's All-Star Festival of Comedy, Music, Mystery and Drama.

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Here's our adaptation of a screen full of laughter named The Great Lover. And here are our stars, Bob Hope and Rhonda Fleming. You know, once upon a time, Paramount made a picture called The Great Lover.

Naturally, they asked me to play the part. Crosby was so upset he fell out of his wheelchair. I'm Rhonda Fleming and I want you to know that Bob was perfectly cast for the part of the Great Lover.

His kiss is propped with a strange electricity. Like a dynamo, huh? Mm-mm. Like a vacuum cleaner. Yeah, you're talking to a guy who gets introduced twice. Listen to this from the rye crisp kid. Now here's Chester Peele's answer to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Bob Ho. I'd top easy dad, but we only have a minute here to sell Chesterfield. Okay, well let's get to it. Better tasting Chesterfield is the only cigarette that combines for you mildness with no unpleasant aftertaste. The mildness is a sense to prove. You just make the Chesterfield mildness test. You know, open a pack and enjoy that mild aroma. Then smoke them and you'll know