The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) Crescendo (1957) User Reviews

We find out why the English can't teach the Americans how to speak. We have our own lingo.

[mark.waltz · 9/10 · 13 June 2022]

Now this is how you jazz, as a man strangely resembling Henry Higgins finds out through the world of American music. Rex Harrison goes from the streets of London to all over the U. S. A., getting musical sessions in the art of slang and the hit parade through the likes of instruction by Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing, Peggy Lee, Mahila Jackson, Dinah Washington, Julie Andrews, Stubby Kaye, and a few surprises. This vintage musical special flys by in 75 minutes, filled with song and dance, light comedy and that good old American hospitality, as they could only do it through one's television set. This deserves to be up there as a TV classic with "Ford Star Theater", "Colgate Comedy Hour", "The Ed Sullivan Show", and any of the variety shows that came out either as series or specials in the golden age of television. Harrison is a great reactor to all of that fabulous music around him. Truly classic!