KENNEDY CENTER HONORS 1980 {HONOREES: LEONARD BERNSTEIN, JAMES CAGNEY, AGNES DE MILLE, LYNN FONTANNE, LEONTYNE PRICE} (TV)
Summary
This program contains the Kennedy Center celebration honoring Leonard Bernstein, James Cagney, Leontyne Price, Agnes de Mille, and Lynn Fontanne. Paying tribute to the honorees in word and/or performance are the following: President Jimmy Carter; Lauren Bacall with a film tribute to Bernstein; Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the overture to Bernstein's "Candide"; Jamie Bernstein singing a song for her father; Betty Comden and Adolph Green singing "New York, New York" from "On the Town"; Kitty Carlisle Hart with a film tribute to de Mille; a dance from "Texas Fourth"; Art Buchwald with political satire; and Zubin Mehta with a film tribute to price. Mehta also conducts Donald Gramm in a Mozart aria; Beverly Sills; as well as Natalia Makarova and Anthony Dowell in a pas de deux from "Manon"; Jason Robards with a film tribute to Fontanne; Sills singing "Happy Birthday" to Fontanne; flutist James Galway; Mikhail Baryshnikov and Pat O'Brien with a tribute to Cagney. Next up is a film tribute to Cagney; John Travolta with praise for Cagney; and an excerpt from the Broadway musical "Tintypes." Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: December 27, 1980 Saturday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:40:06
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T81:0262
- GENRE: Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: Dance; Orchestral music; Political satire; Music, popular (songs, etc.)
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1980
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- George Stevens … Producer, Writer
- Nick Vanoff … Producer
- Michael B. Seligman … Associate Producer
- Don Mischer … Director
- L.T. Iglehart … Writer
- Leonard Bernstein … Honoree
- James Cagney … Honoree
- Leontyne Price … Honoree
- Agnes De Mille … Honoree
- Lynn Fontanne … Honoree
- Lauren Bacall
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Jamie Bernstein
- Art Buchwald
- Kitty Carlisle Hart
- Jimmy Carter
- Betty Comden
- Anthony Dowell
- James Galway
- Donald Gramm
- Adolph Green
- Natalia Makarova
- Zubin Mehta
- Pat O'Brien
- Jason Robards
- Beverly Sills
- Michael Tilson Thomas
- John Travolta