The Ern Westmore Hollywood Glamour Show

The Ern Westmore Hollywood Glamour Show is a short-lived 1953 ABC television show.

The show was hosted by Hollywood make-up artist Ern Westmore, who offered beauty tips to viewers and gave a makeover to a member of the studio audience, who was then serenaded by a vocal singer, similar to the end of the Miss America Pageant. It was produced by Kroger Babb^[1] and, along with Turn to a Friend, was part of a two-program entry by ABC into daytime TV.^[2] Besides Westmore, the show featured Betty Egan, Eddie Varden, Helen Winston, and Robert and Helen Little.^[3]

At times the program originated from local TV stations, including WAFM in Birmingham, WKRC in Cincinnati, and WTVJ in Miami.^[3]

A review in the October 17, 1953, issue of the trade publication Billboard described Westmore as "ultra-candid" in the episode that was reviewed and said that he was "far too clipped and cold in his frank appraisal of the grooming deficiencies" of women in the audience.^[2]

The show's final broadcast, and that of Turn to a Friend, came on December 31, 1953, as ABC shifted its focus from afternoon programming to morning shows.^[4]

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Marsha Francis Cassidy (2005), What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s, University of Texas, ISBN 978-0-292-70627-9
• Frank Westmore and Muriel Davidson. The Westmores of Hollywood. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1976.
• Internet Movie Database: Ern Westmore. URL accessed 13 January 2006.

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