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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Michele Lee Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

GGACP celebrates the birthday of Tony and Emmy-nominated actress-singer Michele Lee (b. June 24) with this ENCORE of a memorable interview from 2021. In this episode, Michele looks back at her seven-decade career in television (“Knots Landing”), movies (“The Comic,” “The Love Bug”) and on the Broadway stage (“How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and remembers the bawdiness of Red Skelton, the naughtiness of Buddy Hackett, the courageousness of Don Rickles and the flirtatiousness of Frank Sinatra. Also, Michele cuts the rug with Fred Astaire, treads the boards with Robert Morse, takes directing tips from Jerry Lewis and plays Lou Costello’s wife in the infamous “Bud and Lou.” PLUS: “Rod Serling’s Night Gallery”! “Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story”! In praise of Dick Van Dyke! And Michele shares the screen with Liberace, Danny Kaye and Sammy Davis Jr! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santo

0:26.7

Padre. Our guest this week is a singer, dancer, recording artist, cabaret performer, television director, and an Emmy and Tony nominated

0:38.7

actress of both stage and screen who's been working steadily in show business since she was a teenager.

0:48.8

You know are from popular TV shows like Rowan and Martin's Laughing Love American Style, the Carol Burnett

0:57.9

Show Night Gallery, the Love Boat, Will and Grace Family Guide, and the TV movie Scandalists Me, the Jacqueline

1:08.5

Suzanne story, and Bud and Lou. Hey, I think I've heard of that one. And of course, Notch Landing,

1:19.0

which she was the only cash member to appear in all 344 episodes and she directed nine of them.

1:33.0

You've also enjoyed her outstanding work in films like

1:38.0

How to Succeed in Business without really trying,

1:42.0

the Love Bub, the Comic. business without really trying the love of the comic along came Polly as well as in

1:49.3

acclaimed stage productions of how to Succeed in Business, Seesaw, Wicked, and The Tale of theologist's Wife.

1:59.8

She's also the first woman to write, direct, produce, and star in a movie made for television.

2:09.0

1996, Color Me Perfect. In 1999, she was awarded her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2:21.7

In a career that began way back as a teenager in the long lost

2:28.3

Dino's Lodge on Sunset stare, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr. Danny Kay, Jerry Lewis, Betty Davis,

2:50.8

Buddy Hackett, and Liberace, as well as our own podcast guest, Dick Van Dyke,

2:59.6

Call Reiner, Don Murray, John Davidson, David Steinberg, John Ashton, Kenberry, and John

3:08.7

Biner. Frank and I are excited to welcome to the show a woman of many talents and a performer who has done everything a person could possibly do in the entertainment business,

3:25.8

including appearing on six,

3:30.9

count them six episodes of celebrity bowling.

3:37.7

The Magnificent Michelle Lee.

3:44.0

Am I dead yet?

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