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Dinner with the President (1953)
TV Special | 60 min | Family

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Dinner with the President (1953)

TV Special | 60 min | Family

Broadcast from the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., this program contains live coverage of the dinner marking the fortieth anniversary of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League. Highlights include the following: dramatic readings by ...See moreBroadcast from the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., this program contains live coverage of the dinner marking the fortieth anniversary of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League. Highlights include the following: dramatic readings by Thelma Ritter, Rex Harrison, and Lilli Palmer; songs from Eddie Fisher, Jane Froman, William Warfield, and Ethel Merman; the introduction of broadcasting leaders David Sarnoff, Leonard Goldenson, and William Paley; comedy with Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz; breakthroughs in freedom with Jackie Robinson; spoken tributes by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein; Helen Hayes as Harriet Beecher Stowe, who speaks; and a speech by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, recipient of the League's Democratic Legacy Award. Eisenhower, speaking of his pride in America, stresses that there must be no weakening of the codes by which Americans live. He says that the rights to worship as we please and to meet our accusers face to face are rights all Americans must work to preserve. See less

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32 cast members

Name	Known for
Dwight D. Eisenhower Self - President of the United States of America Self - President of the United States of America See fewer	Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945)
Walter Cronkite Self - Host and narrator Self - Host and narrator See fewer	Liberty's Kids (2002)
Ben Grauer Self - Host and narrator Self - Host and narrator See fewer	The Town That Forgot God (1922)
Philip Morris Klutznick Self - Host / President of B'anai B'rith Self - Host / President of B'anai B'rith See fewer	Bicentennial Minutes (1974)
Desi Arnaz Self Self See fewer	I Love Lucy (1951)
Lucille Ball Self Self See fewer	I Love Lucy (1951)
Bernard Baruch Self Self See fewer	Hearst-Pathé News, No. 5 (1917)
Thomas C. Clark Self - Justice of the Supreme Court Self - Justice of the Supreme Court See fewer	Meet the Press (1947)
William O. Douglas Self - Justice of the Supreme Court Self - Justice of the Supreme Court See fewer	Studio One (1948)
Mamie Eisenhower Self Self See fewer	Universal Newsreel (1954)
Eddie Fisher Self Self See fewer	Carol (2015)
Felix Frankfurter Self - Justice of the Supreme Court Self - Justice of the Supreme Court See fewer	Dinner with the President (1953)
William Frawley Self Self See fewer	I Love Lucy (1951)
Jane Froman Self Self See fewer	Radio City Revels (1938)
Leonard H. Goldenson Self Self See fewer	Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina (1958)
Oscar Hammerstein II Self Self See fewer	State Fair (1945)
Rex Harrison Self Self See fewer	My Fair Lady (1964)
Helen Hayes Self Self See fewer	Airport (1970)
Hubert H. Humphrey Self - Minnesota Senator Self - Minnesota Senator See fewer	The Candidate (1972)
Irving M. Ives Self - New York Senator Self - New York Senator See fewer	Longines Chronoscope (1951)
Robert Jackson Self - Justice of the Supreme Court Self - Justice of the Supreme Court See fewer	Nuremberg (1948)
Ethel Merman Self Self See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
William Paley Self Self See fewer	The 1st TV Academy Hall of Fame (1984)
Lilli Palmer Self Self See fewer	Anastasia: The Czar's Last Daughter (1956)
Thelma Ritter Self Self See fewer	Rear Window (1954)
Jackie Robinson Self Self See fewer	The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Richard Rodgers Self Self See fewer	The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
David Sarnoff Self Self See fewer	Susan and God (1938)
Henry Edward Schultz Self - National Chairman of the Anti-Defamation League Self - National Chairman of the Anti-Defamation League See fewer	Dinner with the President (1953)
Vivian Vance Self Self See fewer	I Love Lucy (1951)
William Warfield Self Self See fewer	Show Boat (1951)
Earl Warren Self - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Self - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court See fewer	Stars in the Eye (1952)