Night of 100 Stars

Night of 100 Stars

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Tv Special

  • Duration: 3h 2min
  • Music: Buz Kohan,Glen Roven
  • Award(s): Primetime Emmy 1982 (Won)
    DGA 1983 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3
  • Story:
    The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
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STORY

Story
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.

AWARDS

Won
Primetime Emmy Award

Outstanding Variety Music or Comedy Program | 1982

Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction | 1982

Nominations
DGA Award

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in MusicalVariety | 1983

Primetime Emmy Award

Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics | 1982 | Buz

Outstanding Directing in a Variety or Music Program | 1982

Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) | 1982 | Bill

TRIVIA

Trivia

Final filmed and final public appearance for Lee Strasberg, who died just four days later, on February 17, 1982.

In his 1989 autobiography "It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here...", Charles Grodin recalls that all he and Ellen Burstyn were initially asked to do was to step through a giant poster of their hit Broadway play, "Same Time, Next Year as part of a segment featuring various Broadway stars. But during the two day rehearsal he learned to his dismay that a choreographed dance had been added, which was no problem for Burstyn, but had Grodin stumbling along with her during the final broadcast.

Henry Fonda, who had just won his first and only competitive Academy Award as Best Actor for On Golden Pond (1981), was too ill to attend and would pass away in August of that year. His daughter Jane Fonda did appear, as did Leonard Nimoy and Larry Hagman, who had co-starred with her father almost a decade earlier in the made-for-TV movie The Alpha Caper (1973); Fonda's lifelong friend and occasional co-star James Stewart; Fonda's fellow jurors from 12 Angry Men (1957) Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman and Jack Warden; and both James Cagney and Jack Lemmon who had co-starred with Fonda in Mister Roberts (1955).

The only time that James Mason and Arlene Dahl ever worked on the same project other than their sometimes tumultuous co-starring in Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) over two decades earlier.

The only shared credit of Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon other than their respective title roles in Harold and Maude (1971) as well as a special episode of This Is Your Life (1970) (This Is Your Life: Ruth Gordon (1971)) the same year as the cult classic black comedy/drama film.