
Night of 100 Stars
1982-03-08 · 182 min · ★ 5.8
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
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Jane AlexanderSelf
Peter AllenSelf
Steve AllenSelf
June AllysonSelf
Don AmecheSelf
Loni AndersonSelf
Susan AntonSelf
Lucie ArnazSelf
Bea ArthurSelf
Ed AsnerSelf
Christopher AtkinsSelf
Lauren BacallSelf
Catherine BachSelf
Pearl BaileySelf
Kaye BallardSelf
Martin BalsamSelf
Priscilla BarnesSelf
Warren BeattySelf
Harry BelafonteSelf
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