Night of 100 Stars

Night of 100 Stars

182 mins | Comedy, Music, TV Movie | March 8, 1982

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 payed 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.

Night of 100 Stars

182 mins | Comedy, Music, TV Movie | March 8, 1982

Night of 100 Stars
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 payed 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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers
Original title Night of 100 Stars
Directors Clark Jones
Writers Hildy Parks

Cast

Jane Alexander

as Self

Peter Allen

as Self

Steve Allen

as Self

June Allyson

as Self

Don Ameche

as Self

Loni Anderson

as Self

Susan Anton

as Self

Lucie Arnaz

as Self

Bea Arthur

as Self

Ed Asner

as Self

Lauren Bacall

as Self

Catherine Bach

as Self

Pearl Bailey

as Self

Kaye Ballard

as Self

Martin Balsam

as Self

Warren Beatty

as Self

Harry Belafonte

as Self

Tony Bennett

as Self

Milton Berle

as Self

Theodore Bikel

as Self

Tom Bosley

as Self

Barry Bostwick

as Self

Jack Buetel

as Self

George Burns

as Self

Ellen Burstyn

as Self

James Caan

as Self

James Cagney

as Self

Diahann Carroll

as Self

Lynda Carter

as Self

Nell Carter

as Self

Patrick Cassidy

as Self

Carol Channing

as Self

Cher

as Self

Dick Clark

as Self

James Coco

as Self

Joan Collins

as Self

Peter Cook

as Self

Bud Cort

as Self

Howard Cosell

as Self

Arlene Dahl

as Self

Sammy Davis Jr.

as Self

Bette Davis

as Self

Pam Dawber

as Self

Robert De Niro

as Self

Frances Dee

as Self

Danny DeVito

as Self

Joyce DeWitt

as Self

Alfred Drake

as Self

Sandy Duncan

as Self

Nancy Dussault

as Self

Linda Evans

as Self

Lola Falana

as Self

Peter Falk

as Self

Alice Faye

as Self

José Ferrer

as Self

Peggy Fleming

as Self

Jane Fonda

as Self

John Forsythe

as Self

Phyllis Frelich

as Self

Eva Gabor

as Self

Anthony Geary

as Self

Andy Gibb

as Self

Melissa Gilbert

as Self

Lillian Gish

as Self

Ruth Gordon

as Self

Farley Granger

as Self

Linda Gray

as Self

Rocky Graziano

as Self

Joel Grey

as Self

Charles Grodin

as Self

Harry Guardino

as Self

Larry Hagman

as Self

Valerie Harper

as Self

Julie Harris

as Self

Goldie Hawn

as Self

Helen Hayes

as Self

Doug Henning

as Self

Judd Hirsch

as Self

Dustin Hoffman

as Self

Celeste Holm

as Self

Lena Horne

as Self

Ken Howard

as Self

Barnard Hughes

as Self

Kate Jackson

as Self

Judith Jamison

as Self

Anne Jeffreys

as Self

Ann Jillian

as Self

Van Johnson

as Self

Diane Keaton

as Self

Howard Keel

as Self

Gene Kelly

as Self

Grace Kelly

as Self

Deborah Kerr

as Self

Richard Kiley

as Self

Robert Klein

as Self

Jack Klugman

as Self

Ted Knight

as Self

Ed Koch

as Self

Laura La Plante

as Self

Burt Lancaster

as Self

Frank Langella

as Self

Linda Lavin

as Self

Michael Learned

as Self

Michele Lee

as Self

Janet Leigh

as Self

Jack Lemmon

as Self

David Letterman

as Self

Hal Linden

as Self

John V. Lindsay

as Self

Priscilla Lopez

as Self

Dorothy Loudon

as Self

Myrna Loy

as Self

Gavin MacLeod

as Self

Penny Marshall

as Self

Mary Martin

as Self

James Mason

as Self

Joel McCrea

as Self

Ethel Merman

as Self

Dina Merrill

as Self

Ann Miller

as Self

Liza Minnelli

as Self

Anna Moffo

as Self

Jaime Monroy

as Self

Dudley Moore

as Self

Roger Moore

as Self

Paul Newman

as Self

Leonard Nimoy

as Self

Jerry Orbach

as Self

Frank Oz

as Miss Piggy (voice)

Al Pacino

as Self

Hildy Parks

as Self

Gregory Peck

as Self

Anthony Perkins

as Self

Jane Powell

as Self

Stefanie Powers

as Self

Robert Preston

as Self

Anthony Quinn

as Self

Charlotte Rae

as Self

Tony Randall

as Self

Robert Reed

as Self

Lionel Richie

as Self

Jason Robards

as Self

Pernell Roberts

as Self

Cliff Robertson

as Self

Ginger Rogers

as Self

Mickey Rooney

as Self

John Rubinstein

as Self

Jane Russell

as Self

Isabel Sanford

as Self

John Schneider

as Self

Ricky Schroder

as Self

George Segal

as Self

William Shatner

as Self

Brooke Shields

as Self

Sylvia Sidney

as Self

Alexis Smith

as Self

Allison Smith

as Self

Robert Sterling

as Self

James Stewart

as Self

Lee Strasberg

as Self

Lynn Swann

as Self

Cicely Tyson

as Self

Liv Ullmann

as Self

Peter Ustinov

as Self

Ben Vereen

as Self

Jack Warden

as Self

Orson Welles

as Self

Robin Williams

as Self

Treat Williams

as Self

Henry Winkler

as Self

Gabriel Velez

as Puppeteer (uncredited)