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Command Performance: April 23, 1942, with Pat O'Brien and Frances Langford

·32 min·3 clips
Frank Morgan insists his family grew coffee for generations, but his story unravels with slugs and zippers.
This 1942 episode of Command Performance features Pat O'Brien hosting a variety show for troops, with comedy sketches by Frank Morgan and George Burns & Gracie Allen, musical performances, and sports news. The content blends entertainment with wartime morale-boosting, highlighting Hollywood stars' support for soldiers overseas.

As heard by us

A brisk wartime variety hour where patriotism, patter, and nonsense keep colliding.

Command Performance plays like a wartime stage door left open: a serviceman's request brings Pat O'Brien in, and the hour keeps moving from salute to skit to comic derailment.

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Why you'd press play

You want wartime variety that keeps sprinting from requests to banter to punchlines.

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