Command Performance: Musical Performances, Comedy Sketches, Interviews · SolvedMystery.com
Command Performance: April 28, 1942, with Adolphe Menjou, Fibber McGee and Molly, Red Skelton
·30 min·2 clips
Red Skelton plays a naughty boy who gets his pants stuck in an elevator, sparking chaos in his father's office.
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A lively wartime request show where banter, patriotism, and crowd energy keep the pace moving.
Command Performance USA is a wartime request-line variety show built around letters from service members. The episode opens with an Army nurse in Australia asking for Adolphe Mongeau, then settles into comic banter and quick pivots that keep the broadcast moving.
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