Wonderful Town, U.S.A. Detroit (Season 1, Episode 23)
TV Episode | Music

Wonderful Town, U.S.A.

Detroit (Season 1, Episode 23)

TV Episode | Music

Faye takes viewers to the always busy town of Detroit. The show starts in a factory with a song about working and a comical dance by Tommy Rall. Then, Johnny Desmond plays a customs officer on the U.S./Canada border who has a comical ...See moreFaye takes viewers to the always busy town of Detroit. The show starts in a factory with a song about working and a comical dance by Tommy Rall. Then, Johnny Desmond plays a customs officer on the U.S./Canada border who has a comical interaction with a difficult citizen played by Margaret Whiting. Desmond sings a song. The ghost of Thomas Edison talks to Faye about inventors in the 1950s doing good for the world. Mary Boland performs a song written by her father. The show ends with Faye, Desmond and Boland performing the song "Old Soft Shoe." Written by Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Mary Boland Self Self See fewer	The Women (1939)
Johnny Desmond Self Self See fewer	Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
Faye Emerson Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Between Two Worlds (1944)
Skitch Henderson Self - Orchestra Leader Self - Orchestra Leader See fewer	The Knickerbocker Beer Show (1953)
Tommy Rall Self Self See fewer	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Margaret Whiting Self Self See fewer	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)