The Big Show was an NBC house-built package and an innovation in show business deriving its name from the fact that the talent roster each week included "the biggest names in show business." Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Phil Harris, the Andrews Sisters, Milton Berle, Judy Holliday, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor and many others were heard on the program -- along with hostess Tallulah Bankhead. It was not until the rehearsal of the premiere broadcast that...