This is Your Life: Danny Thomas

This is Your Life: Danny Thomas 1/2 Hour B/W Kinescope Original NBC Network print with all original commercials as Re-broadcast on September 1, 1954. With guests: Tony Thomas and Marlo Thomas.

[@blissfularrogance3529]

Danny is a saint and is responsible for saving the lives of millions of children. St. Jude has made magnificent strides in the cure of cancer in children. It was 20% before St.Jude and is now 80% curable today. God bless this wonderful good man.

[@naomibedek1701]

Never knew the early part of his life. He overcame many obstacles. St. Jude's Hospital is still going strong. It's amazing the difference one person can make. Such a caring, humble, and charitable man.

[@susanford2388]

Danny Thomas kept his promise. A good good man.

[@Farrah300]

Thanks to this man, millions of children have a chance to beat childhood cancer.

[@nanabutner]

When Danny Thomas started St. Judes the survival rate for juvenile cancer was 20% today the survival rate is 80%. Much of the research has and continues to be done at and by St. Judes.

[@oldtimer794]

What an amazing legacy!!! May God bless and keep you forever, Mr. Thomas.

[@douglasthompson9482]

God Bless Danny Thomas....an ambassador of humanity. Offering hope to thousands. RIP humble man.

[@joanpellillo2981]

Thank you sharing his legacy! AND THE STORY OF St. Jude .

[@BillyAlabama]

This family does more than just talking about their faith. They live it.

[@January.]

*does more than talk about

[@VicMartino]

Danny Thomas was a great entertainer and a great humanitarian as well.

[@Apefather]

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[@williammasi7128]

That St. Jude story is incredible.

[@daisydukes8252]

Mr. Thomas looked as if he could cry at times while recounting his life. What a good and gracious man.

[@heleneg525]

Such a humble man. This video brought joy to my heart and tears to my eyes.

[@Apefather]

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[@peterwalker9211]

Man, Danny overcame so much! He truly was Godsend!

[@Apefather]

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[@jv-ep2tc]

this just killed me. "get that hospital built"....indeed he did. and the work goes on after his passing which is the ultimate achievement.

[@fromthesidelines]

It took him another eight years, but he finally dedicated and opened St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis on February 4, 1962.

[@karensparks2509]

Very humble. And he lived up to his name. St. Judes has helped so many children.

[@markjohnson4371]

He did build that hospital and he has saved millions of lives

[@Apefather]

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[@Farrah300]

That hospital opened in 1962.

[@awildarenaud1745]

What faith he add and what a blessing he was bestowed.

[@markjohnson4371]

His kids, grandkids and great grandkids have carried on his legacy of love

[@Apefather]

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[@austindreher2791]

I Adore Danny Thomas. What a Wonderful man.

[@parmodsharma4576]

What a decent man. We need more like this today. They are too greedy.

[@Apefather]

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[@Farrah300]

@Incog Nito If you don't mind my saying, many celebrities today act very foolishly. Not classy at all like this man truly was.

[@susanford2388]

Danny Thomas was a good good man.

[@Goodfella1960]

This man is a Saint.

[@sharonpolikoff7282]

I like that Danny was so sentimental about family and friends that several characters in 'Make Room for Daddy' were named after them - Margaret, Terry, Julia, Tonoose (Anthony), Charley, etc. Some episodes also included what we would now call 'shout outs' featuring real-life professional colleagues such as columnist Earl Wilson and Jack Entrater of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

[@captainnice9698]

One day I went into a fast food place at the corner of Sunset Blvd & Vine St when I lived in Hollywood many years ago, and who did I see standing in line like every one else: Danny Thomas. He was truly a humble man (by the way, the studio where this show was filmed in the 1950's was approx. 5 blocks from where I saw Danny in the early 1980's.) It REALLY is a small world after all

[@robbystechman6384]

Truly great man and entertainer

[@Apefather]

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[@carolcaponigro]

People talked about their faith and weren't ashamed about it either. They talked about God and weren't ashamed of it either. We need God back in our lives. Look whats happened when they started taking God and family, and decency out of our lives.

[@thegreatselkie6009]

😂😂😂

[@daisydukes8252]

@@thegreatselkie6009You think it’s funny? You are truly evil.

[@susanford2388]

It breaks my heart to think of kids going to bed & to school on empty stomachs. If we cannot feed kids they cannot thrive. Kid are our future

[@guessmyname6210]

Danny Thomas was nothing less than a class act.

[@Apefather]

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[@what.the...]

...EVEN sitting through some of those comments. He doesn't take offence...just real CLASS. 💗

[@Anthony-nq4ki]

His real birth name was Muzyad Yakhoob, then his parents later changed his name to Amos Joseph Jacobs until finally he decided to change his name to Danny Thomas a name that he took from the first names of two of his brothers, Danny after his younger brother and Thomas after his eldest brother. God bless him.

[@Apefather]

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[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

He took the names of his two brothers as his professional name..When Danny began his solor show biz career..performing at a Chicago nightclub..singing and telling a story of a crazy lady..driving a deli owner..nuts..by having him..slice alot of lox..but only buying piece of the fish.

[@RayPointerChannel]

Yes, and Amos Jacobs and family lived one year in Hubardston, MIchigan during the Depression. My mother went to school with him.

[@colissaladoux2333]

Danny was a real class act

[@shelleywarkentin9656]

His reaction was priceless.

[@lizdoyle7158]

EXCELLENT🕊 FABOULOUS 🕊AWESOME 🕊🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@what.the...]

Fascinating Show. I knew Danny was a nice guy but I never knew how nice till now. Such a blessed family, filled with humour and love 💗💗💗

[@Farrah300]

He thought Michael Curtiz was the subject. What a way to spring a surprise!!!

[@johnturano2146]

I’ve watching his show on Tubi…what a great man & entertainer! He’s an inspiration! His spit takes are hysterical!

[@jan-christinejohnson5256]

Heartwarming ♥

[@timothydouglas7949]

A very young Marlo i loved her in That girl. One of the great shows of That girl is her dad playing a priest and she runs into him in a lobby. She says sorry father and he said that's alright my child!

[@noraarico1313]

Good to learn about.

[@fromthesidelines]

That's because she later had her nose fixed- without Danny's approval. He believed that people would accept him for what he was- NOSE and all (he lost the opportunity to become a star at MGM in the late 1940's because he refused to alter his beak, on Louis B. Mayer's suggestion).

[@heleneg525]

I always watched "That Girl," but I don't remember that episode. Thanks for giving me a chuckle.

[@scottstacey7447]

Her sister, Terre played a nun and her brother Tony were also in that same episode "My Sister's Keeper".

[@tombennett3827]

There's another episode of THAT GIRL in which Danny Thomas and Milton Berle play themselves. Danny and Marlo sing a duet in that one.

[@janekileen5561]

DAN Y THOMAS IS A WONDERFUL ENTERTAINER. IT IS WONDERFUL HOW HE STARTED ST.JUDE HOSPITAL IN MEMPHIS, TN. TO HELP CHILDREN WITH CANCER,

[@marykrambeer6633]

Wow! He overcame so much. What a faith-filled and wonderful man!

[@HCHxxiv]

Amazing. Love this.

[@rickythewolfe]

How the flip did I get here...?!?

[@Apefather]

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[@bobbyfrancis8957]

I have on DVD, some of the early "Make Room for Daddy" programs in the early 1950s, with their original commercials, and YES, I'm talking about cigarette commercials. But the programs I saw later in the early 1960s were sponsored by Post cereal.

[@fromthesidelines]

Danny had several sponsors before he moved from ABC to CBS in 1957 (for General Foods, on behalf of Post cereals and Maxwell House). Originally, American Tobacco [Pall Mall] was his primary sponsor from 1953 through '56, with Speidel watchbands as his alternate sponsor during the first half of the 1953-'54 season- then Chrysler's Dodge division replaced them through the end of the 1955-'56 season. In the fall of 1956......his last on ABC, as "THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW".....Danny was sponsored by Kimberly-Clark [Kleenex] and Armour & Co. [Dial soap].

[@Apefather]

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[@fromthesidelines]

During the summer, Ralph Edwards would raid his kinescope archives and repeat what he considered the best "subjects" of the current season {"repeated by popular demand!"}. This one was originally presented on January 27, 1954.

[@Apefather]

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[@Farrah300]

The hospital that was talked about in this video would open in 1962.

[@JJJBRICE]

The only negative thing that I have heard about Danny Thomas was his relationship with TV wife Jean Hagen .

[@fromthesidelines]

By the third season of "MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY", Danny wasn't satisfied with Jean or her appearance. And when her husband insisted he wouldn't let her be directed by "that gangster actor" {Sheldon Leonard, who became Danny's production partner}, that was the "deal breaker". He got rid of Jean before the fourth season- and made sure she'd never appear again by having "Margaret Williams" die off-camera, leaving him a widower [the show's title was also changed to "THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW"]. It took him the better part of a season to find a suitable replacement....which was Marjorie Lord (as "Kathy").

[@GeeBee909]

Fun Fact: there really was a woman named Hazel Bishop. It was cometic company that sponsored this show every week

[@idesofmarchUNIAEA]

Back when people are people.

[@Apefather]

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[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on January 27, 1954.

[@Apefather]

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[@harlow743]

you can't live without Hazel Bishop Lipstick

[@Apefather]

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[@deedeegreen8338]

I've never seen Marlo with her original nose.

[@markjohnson4371]

Margaret Julia is Marlo and this proves the year of her birth as 1937

[@Apefather]

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[@markjohnson4371]

Marlo is almost unrecognizable

[@georgestroker4171]

Awesome

[@jena6587]

My grandparents flew from Ca back to Ohio in the mid 80’s. Danny was on their flight. So was Sid Cesar. My grandpa got a cigar from Danny. Even got his picture in our local paper. I remember meeting Danny when I was about 6 or 7. It was wonderful. I still remember meeting him in the luggage area at Hopkins Airport.

[@willdrucker4291]

How awesome is this….@27:30…Ralph Edwards speaks about Danny Thomas’ dedication to the building of St. Jude’s Hospital for Children…now look to his left…that little girl next to him…I think we ALL know who that is…

[@Ar7wen]

The ads for the lipstick are funny lol! Wish they had talked to his kids.

[@miltonbroome9725]

No one pays a dime for the treatment. 🙏

[@carolcaponigro]

He was loyal to his wife.

[@Ar7wen]

They should have let the older woman sit down, they could have brought out a chair! Danny seems like a kind hearted person, and of course he was a man of faith.

[@kywonitro5549]

GLASS COFFEE TABLE!!!!!!!!! IYKYK

[@lucialipstick8668]

Love this

[@Wheeloffortunefan999]

"oh you dirty" LOLOL

[@rickyrydell]

Marlo (Margaret) before the nose job!

[@seangoodwin3046]

They left out that the Great Michael Curtiz was the director of Casablanca.

[@fromthesidelines]

Bob Warren speaks for Hazel Bishop.

[@laurastone6578]

He died in 2013 at 94 years old.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

About 6:50, Danny said when he was born, he was delivered by a horse doctor. I knew this long ago, before I had a tablet, I read Danny's autobiography; the vet called Danny a "fine young colt". Later this program doesn't mention, in the 1940s,when his movie career was starting, a movie producer was saying to him to "fix the beak" ( its obvious he never did).

[@Farrah300]

I have to say that shows like this aren't exactly for the faint of heart. You would have to be a good sport to be if you will, "ambushed" I mean that word in the absolutely best sense.

[@timdaugherty4014]

Leonardo DiCaprio could play him in a biopic.

[@SueBeaWho]

BTW....my new phrase is going to be ..."He turned the tables on ya" lol

[@williamdunphy352]

0:16 Bob Warren.

[@MaryBethPetra]

Not for broadcast...whoops...

[@laurastone6578]

Lebanese? Why did I think he was Italian?

[@scottstacey7447]

His wife, Rose Marie, was Italian.

[@fromthesidelines]

Danny never let you forget about his Lebanese heritage- especially when he was "Danny Williams", and "Uncle Tonoose" {Hans Conried} appeared [based on the real patriarch of Danny's family].

[@richardbutterfoss2353]

I hope I can Bring Med Beds to St. Jude or bring the kids from St. Jude to a Med Bed facility. No more sick kids ever! RWB

[@joanneortiz6715]

Wasn't marlo Thomas his daughter?? She wasn't mentioned😮

[@joanneortiz6715]

Thank you Danny for all you've done for st Jude hosp and your show make room for daddy I still watch it.rest in peace❤

[@harpervalleypeeteeay9708]

Look at Marlo's nose !! Yikes !! Lied about her age for forever, truth told here, born in 1937 she'll be 83 in Nov., 2020.

[@markjohnson4371]

She recently came clean about it, the age not the nose, but love Marlo to pieces always

[@what.the...]

AND is a beautiful soul...a great beauty inside and out; at any age. She has been blessed too. 💗

[@oldtimer794]

@@what.the... You bet she is.

[@beritbranch2436]

next

[@mirandavinci4146]

I didn't know that he was Lebanese. I always thought that he was Jewish.

[@user-bu7lh9ql6o]

Marlo was hot

[@uofa82]

A man selling lipstick!

[@francesryan7614]

The worst programme ever