Will chance of a lifetime winner Stanley Grover win his second thousand dollars tonight?
Your feet never and never change. Stay the way you look tonight.
Yes, tonight Stanley Grover or some new champion will win one thousand dollars.
A week's engagement at the beautiful new Versailles Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.
On Chance of a Lifetime, starring Dennis James.
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And now here's the star of your show, Dennis James.
How's that feel?
I've been talking now for the last two or three weeks about losing weight.
You see the pitfalls and the trials and tribulations and losing weight. Now my wife buys me a vest.
I've never worn clothing like this in my life. She says now with the trim figure you must wear it.
Audience, I want you to take a good look at it because it probably is the last time you will ever see it.
I pleased the little lady and now the work is done.
I'll have courage enough though to keep it on for the rest of the show.
If in the event halfway through you shouldn't see it, don't worry too much about it.
All right? Let's carry on now with Chance of a Lifetime.
I hope that you're all properly ensconced at home, ready for some real excitement here on Chance of a Lifetime
because we have a nice variety type of show tonight for you. Really do.
We have, I think you know how it works, we have two professional performers or acts in the first half.
They compete against one another to see who will compete against our current champions to go over in the second half of the show.
It's as simple as that.
We have first the young lady who is a singer and has found a very promising career for herself
singing in clubs around this neck of the woods.
But tonight she would like to be seen coast to coast on Chance of a Lifetime.
So I'd like to present her right now, Miss Fran Leslie. Here she is.
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Got him some black and white, huh? That's very cute.
I want to reprimand you a little bit if I may. Why?
Because on the report here, I noticed when I read it, it said, and it's your quote,
there is nothing unusual about me.
When our staff asked what would we talk about, you say there's nothing unusual about you.
Now, right away I can see 15 things.
Well, no, I don't think so.
I think you're beautiful, I think you have lovely eyes, and you have lovely hair, and I think it's a lovely gown.
And I think that what's on the report is the most unusual thing I've ever seen.
What's that?
That you're a native New Yorker.
That's true.
You know there are no of them.
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Now, you people applauding, are you native New Yorkers?
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Well, I was just about to say that in this whole audience, I'll bet you $5, if you really are honest about it,
there aren't three born and brought up in New York City.
And this little girl, three.
All right?
This little girl, three generations of her family born in New York City.
I think that's very unusual.
Then you go on to say that I just have an average family life.
Sometimes that makes the nicest, warmest kind of interview.
Tell us about this average family.
Well, my father is in the textile line.
My mother works in the children's store.
She's a saleswoman.
Working mother, that's good.
And I have a 10-year-old sister who's going to school right now.
And she likes to skate, roller skate.
Oh, yeah?
Do you mean professionally she wants to do this?
She'd like to.
But that's how she got her arm broken twice.
Learning.
Learning.
That's a good offer.
It's more time to get a boat and more time to go back out for it.
She still wants to.
Do you have any boyfriends?
No, not at the present time.
Not at the present time.
You're one of those little girls who's working hard in her career and having a time for boys.
No.
All right.
And you've been singing professionally for three years, Fran.
And our representative here says that you are a find.
We'd like to find you on the center stage.
We'd like to hear you sing.
Thank you.
Go to it.
All right.
And she is dressed in black and white.
John Gott, who will be black and blue if he doesn't stay on key.
And the orchestra, who are purple.
And the song, Take Me in Your Arms.
Fran Leslie, here she is.
Take me in your arms before you take your love away.
Take me in your arms before we part.
Let me thrill again to your caress of yesterday.
Let me fill again my hungry heart.
One hour of gladness that we knew in the past.
One moment's madness, although it's evil, I'll be fine.
Glide me with your charm with all the stardust in the sky.
Take me in your arms and then goodbye.
One hour of gladness that we knew in the past.
One moment's madness, although it's evil, I'll be fine.
Glide me with your charm with all the stardust in the sky.
Take me in your arms and then goodbye.
Goodbye.
All right, that was Fran Leslie.
And now in direct competition to this little girl, we have four men.
An aggregation originally from over in Trieste, Italy.
And I believe the report says now they make their home in Philadelphia.
And they've been busy around the city of brotherly love, working very hard.
And they've never been on coast-to-coast television before,
and very anxious here for a chance of a lifetime.
Now it's the Giovanni's, and I'm going to talk to the daddy of the Giovanni's.
Come here.
Le parla con me.
Si, si, si, si, si, si, si.
I speak English.
Bene che mi spieghi parlare italiano.
Quanti anni qui?
Cinque anni.
Cinque anni, eh?
Tutta famiglia.
Tutta famiglia.
All right, this is the Italian hour, ladies and gentlemen.
Station to speak your language.
You do speak English, eh?
Yeah, I speak English.
Because it says here you speak nine languages.
Yeah, I speak several languages.
All right, let's talk Czechoslovakia.
Oh, yes, the meat store down on the corner of Canal and Third.
What language was that?
Czechoslovakia.
Oh, see, I don't speak Czechoslovakia.
That's my brother's language.
Now let me talk about this group over here.
Qui?
I have my two sons here.
Oh, wonderful.
It's Mario and Antonio and my son-in-law, Giovanni.
And your son-in-law is which one?
Plays guitar?
No, plays violin.
Plays violin.
All right, so later when you see it, you know the two boys who are not playing the violin are his sons.
And what it says here is your family has been in show business, not just your father, but 200 or 300 years.
Yeah, we are.
Is that true?
Yeah, it's true.
We are from descendants from strictly circus performers.
I see, but you're not going to do circus kind of stuff?
No, no, no, we don't do acrobatics more.
We do just musical acting, singing now.
We want to switch over.
So because it fits better into a nightclub, eh?
I mean, it fits better in a nightclub and it's easier, a lot easier.
Easier to make the money.
Easier to make the money, yeah.
All right, very good.
The stage is all circus.
The report here says, like William Holden and Kim Novak, you're going to have a picnic.
Yeah.
And you're going to make it for a picnic?
Yeah, we make for a picnic.
Make it nice, you know?
Yeah.
How do you say, anda, anda, anda, anda, anda?
No, vada, vai, vada.
Oh, that's that dialetto.
You don't know what's a vada dialetto.
Vada solamente alti tagli, eh?
Come on, come on.
Here they are, the Giovanni's.
The Giovanni's.
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
All right, there are the Giovanni's.
I forgot to mention that they are currently playing at the Capri restaurant down in Philadelphia,
and the Capri restaurant was nice enough to let them come away to New York to appear on the show,
so thought it best that we mention that.
Now, right at this point, our operators start making their calls out to you folks at home
to find out how you're going to vote here.
They'll keep on calling until they find two people who are in competition at home,
somebody for the young lady and somebody for the group.
Now, if the performer you select, we call you, wins, you receive $500.
I think you know that.
You get another $500 every single time you perform a win, so it's kind of like an annuity policy.
We have a woman right now, for instance, who won $500 because she picked our winner last week,
and we have a picture, I believe, of her.
Can we take a look at that, Miss Regina Hitchcock from out in La Grange, Illinois.
She won $500, and she is currently riding with our champion, Stanley Grover.
So if he wins tonight, she gets another $500 and so on.
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Now for the phones.
Let's see how we're doing.
Oh, wow.
This phone was right near a very hot light, if you'll forgive me.
My, look at that.
Hello.
You've got a hot voice here.
What is your name?
I can't hold the phone close enough to my ear.
Wait one minute.
Now the name is what?
Mrs. Wayne Denlon.
D-A-R.
I'll get it later from the girl who probably has it, and then I'll tell everybody who you are.
All right.
And who is it you pick?
Where are you from?
Ashland, Kentucky.
You picked Fran Leslie.
All right.
If she wins, you get $500.
Okay, thank you.
I'm going to find out what your name is.
Don't you worry, because the girl, I'm sure, has it, because she put the call into you,
so she must know who she called.
All right.
Good luck to you.
All right.
Now this ought to be a cold phone.
And the second person is whom?
Warren Clark.
There's a pretty good actor around town, a very good actor, as a matter of fact, with that name.
Where are you from, sir?
Washington Township, New Jersey.
And you are the first to pick, then, the Giovannis, right?
You know if they win, you get $500.
All right.
Good luck to you, too.
All right.
Now let's find out.
You people are going to pick us a winner here in the first half.
Somebody's going to get $1,000 a week's engagement at the Celebrity Room in the beautiful Versailles Hotel in Miami Beach.
If you're all set, applaud me to react now for seven seconds, so it gives the full swing of the applause,
and you'll be able to see it for yourself where it stops.
If you're all ready, here it goes.
First, from New York City, it's Fran Leslie.
All right, that's 91 and one half.
Next, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Giovannis.
All right, 83 and a half, so there's no doubt about that.
The winner of the first half, Fran Leslie.
Well, now, Liz has just handed me.
We know that at home riding with Fran Leslie is Mrs. Wayne Damron, D-A-M-R-O-N, of Ashland, Kentucky.
Fran is against Stanley Grover, and with Stanley Grover is Miss Regina Hitchcock of LaGrange, Illinois.
So, now let's get the second half of competition underway.
Champion against challenger.
The first performance here in the second half will be the champion that won last week $1,000,
and a week at the Celebrity Room in the Versailles Hotel in Miami Beach.
Time for another $1,000 tonight and another week down there.
From Woodstock, Illinois, it is Stanley Grover, and the song is The Way You Look Tonight.
Here he is.
Someday when I'm awfully low and the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of the way you look tonight.
Oh, but you're lovely with your smile so warm and your cheeks so soft.
There is nothing for me but to love and the way you look tonight.
With each word your tenderness grows, tearing my fears apart.
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.
Lovely, never and never change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it for I love you and the way you look tonight.
The way you look tonight.
You folks are going to have a tough choice tonight.
You've got a handsome young fellow against a very pretty young lady,
and their destiny rests with you.
Your applause is going to make the difference here.
It's $1,000, an awful lot of doors opening up for these young people,
and of course they start off down with a week's engagement in Miami Beach.
So it's entirely up to all of you folks.
Here's a little lady now from New York City, Miss Fran Leslie, with Mr. John Gart.
I was only kidding about off-key.
I've never heard you off-key in the nine years I know you.
Here she is, and the song is How Deep is the Ocean.
Miss Fran Leslie.
How much do I love you?
I'll tell you no lie.
How deep is the ocean?
How high is the sky?
How many times a day do I think of you?
How many roses are sprinkled with dew?
How far would I travel to be where you are?
How far is the journey from here to a star?
And if I ever lost you, how much would I cry?
How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?
How far would I travel to be where you are?
How far is the journey from here to a star?
And if I ever lost you, how much would I cry?
How deep is the ocean?
How high is the sky?
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All right, now you've heard Champion and Challenger.
We'll get to the vote in just a moment.
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All right, got your hands all warmed up?
You're the people who are going to do it now.
We go for the vote.
Somebody gets $1,000, somebody at home will get $500.
If you're ready, this one is the one that counts.
First, the challenger,
Fran Leslie.
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All right, this is about 94.
94.
Next, our current champion,
Stanley Grover.
I'm afraid we'll call that one a tie.
That's right about on the button, so we'll have to do it all over again.
94 and 94, so your applause now will do it again.
Pick a winner.
I knew this was going to be close.
Don't grunt and groan.
It's the applause now that will pick the winner.
It's still in your hands.
If you're all set, first, the challenger, Fran Leslie.
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All right, that's 96 and a half.
96 and a half.
All right, and now our current champion, Stanley Grover.
Applause
Wow, about 95 and a half,
so the winner then by one point is Fran Leslie.
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I don't like them that close.
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We'll see you next week.
Of course, and good luck to you.
Let us know what happens now.
Thank you.
Best of luck to both of you.
The winner then at home, riding with Fran Leslie,
is Mrs. Wayne Dambron of Ashland, Kentucky.
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen,
it's been Chance of a Lifetime, starring Dennis James,
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Current talent winners on Chance of a Lifetime
appear at the Celebrity Room
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And remember, Chance of a Lifetime starring Dennis James,
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