The revival was a hit and Silvers became the first actor ever to win a Tony Award in a revival of a show.

The 1962 New York City newspaper strike helped inspire Hardwick, Robert Lowell, Jason Epstein, Barbara Epstein, and Robert B. Silvers to establish The New York Review of Books, a publication that became as much a habit for many readers as The New York Times Book Review, which Hardwick had eviscerated in her 1959 essay.

He collaborated with many of the big name entertainers visiting Portland, among the most recent being Jimmy Durante and Phil Silvers.

Nat Hiken, creator of The Phil Silvers Show, supposedly took the name of the character Sgt.

Silvermane is also the father of Alisha, aka Alisha Silvers, a name she went by in order to spy on the research of Dr. Curt Connors.

As a result, in 1955, Gwynne made a memorable appearance on The Phil Silvers Show, in the episode " The Eating Contest " as the character Private Honigan, whose depressive eating binges are exploited by Sgt.

By then, Berle and his audience had probably burned out on each other, and Buick had even dropped sponsorship of the show at the beginning of the 1955 – 1956 season ( opting to sponsor Jackie Gleason's half-hour filmed edition of The Honeymooners ), after ratings fell dramatically during the 1954 – 1955 as well ( the higher ratings of his 1955 – 56 competition, The Phil Silvers Show on CBS, didn't help Berle, either ); though Berle would remain one of the nation's beloved entertainers, overall, the show that made him a superstar was clearly spent for steam and fresh ideas, and two subsequent attempts at television comebacks hosting his own show lasted barely a year each.

The Phil Silvers Show ( originally titled You'll Never Get Rich ) is a comedy television series which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 for 142 episodes, plus a 1959 special.

The producer of the series, Edward J. Montagne, had had great success with the top-rated series The Phil Silvers Show ( 1955 – 1959 ), a military comedy with an opportunistic non-commissioned officer and his loyal platoon constantly putting something over on the base commander.

* The TV series The Phil Silvers Show ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 with 143 episodes

Silvers started entertaining at age 11, when he would sing in theaters when the projector broke down ( a common occurrence in those days ).

Actor Paul Ford, playing Bilko's commanding officer, was notorious for forgetting his lines ; when he would get a blank expression on his face, Silvers and the rest of the cast would improvise something to save the scene, like " Oh, you remember, Colonel, the top brass is coming ..." At that point, Ford would pick up where he left off, and the audience would respond by laughing.

Ken Sugimori notes that when given the guidelines for creating Sudowoodo by Gold and Silvers scenario designer, he was told to create " a Pokémon that blocks the roads ".

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

In 1968 she starred in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell with Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, and Telly Savalas, the plot of which is the basis for the stage musical Mamma Mia!

The cast starred Silvers as Harrison Floy and Fabray as Sara Longstreet ( who was replaced by Joan Roberts in June 1948 ), and featured Joey Faye as Mr. Pontdue and Jack McCauley as Henry ( Papa ) Longstreet.

The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army.

In 1963, he starred in The New Phil Silvers Show, which attempted to transplant his mercenary character to a factory setting, but the result proved unpopular.

About this same time, he guest starred on Phil Silvers's unsuccessful sitcom The New Phil Silvers Show on CBS.

He also appeared in episodes of four CBS series, Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr, Hawaii Five-O starring Jack Lord, Mission: Impossible starring Peter Graves, and The New Phil Silvers Show, with comedian Phil Silvers, and starred in the premiere episode of Fantasy Island with Ricardo Montalban, and had a supporting role in the pilot episode of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury, as well as a role in a later episode.

He starred in shows such as Mister Roberts, where he replaced David Wayne in the role of Ensign Frank Pulver, which Jack Lemmon later acted out in the film version, Harold, Foxy, The Apple Tree ( as the devil ), You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, and a revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( with Phil Silvers ), which he helped produce and for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the role of the slave Hysterium.

He starred in such TV sitcoms as The Phil Silvers Show and Car 54, Where Are You ?.

He also starred in notable return engagements at the Copacabana and the Plaza Hotel Persian Room in New York ; a debut with packed performances the Century Plaza Hotel's Westside Room ( with Phil Silvers ) in Los Angeles ; debut at the Fairmont San Francisco Hotel ; and several weeks at The Roosevelt New Orleans Hotel Blue Room Gala Reopening.

In 1967, James was intending to play Sergeant Nocker in Follow That Camel, but suffered a massive heart attack and was replaced by the American comic actor Phil Silvers.

" He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U. S. Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko.

Green, Silvers, G. C.

The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.

( Silvers went on to play the role — wearing his glasses — in a 1972 revival.

In 1972 there was a critically well-received Broadway revival, directed by co-author Burt Shevelove and starring Phil Silvers as Pseudolus ( followed later by Tom Poston in the role ), Lew Parker as Senex and Reginald Owen as Erronius.

The production ran 156 performances, but had to close soon after Phil Silvers suffered a stroke.

The show won Tonys for Silvers and Blyden.

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

After filming Lucky Me with Phil Silvers and Young at Heart ( both 1954 ) with Frank Sinatra, Day chose not to renew her contract with Warner Brothers.

* 1911 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian ( d. 1985 )

Has won two Golds and two Silvers at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.

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Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

** Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian ( d. 1985 )

Long John Silvers food offerings include platters, sandwiches, and various single items.

Over the years, Lynde made regular appearances on sitcoms such as The Phil Silvers Show, The Munsters, and I Dream of Jeannie, and variety shows such as The Perry Como Show and The Dean Martin Show.

Phil Silvers was impressed by Gwynne from his work in Mrs. McThing and sought him for his television show.

Bilko ( Phil Silvers ), who seeks prize money by entering Honigan in an eating contest.

The film was written by Harry W. Conn, Moss Hart, Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers.

* 2006: Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein

* Trazel Silvers, former professional basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters and in Europe.

* Robert B. Silvers ( 1929 –), editor of The New York Review of Books