And Everything Nice

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| genre = Fashion

| presenter = Maxine Barrat

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| camera = Multi-camera

| runtime = 25 minutes

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| channel = DuMont

| first_aired = {{start date|1949|03|15}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1950|01|02}}

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And Everything Nice is an American fashion-themed television program that was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from March 8, 1949, through January 9, 1950. The program was hosted by Maxine Barratt.{{cite book|last1=McNeil|first1=Alex|title=Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present |date=1996|publisher=Penguin Books USA, Inc.|location=New York, New York|isbn=0-14-02-4916-8|page= 45|edition=4th}}

Overview

Barrat chatted with guests and presented fashion tips for women of the 1940s. The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired live:

Tuesdays at 7 pm ET on most DuMont affiliates during the 1948-1949 television season;
Mondays at 8:30 pm ET in July and August 1949;
Mondays at 9 pm ET from September 1949 to January 1950.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&dq=%22And+Everything+Nice+Fashions%22&pg=PA60 |first1=Tim |last1=Brooks |author-link1=Tim Brooks (historian) |first2=Earle |last2=Marsh |year=2007 |edition=9 |title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present |page=60 |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-345-49773-4 |access-date=2024-07-16 }}

The series was cancelled in early 1950, and was one of several low-budget fashion programs, such as Fashions on Parade, broadcast by the DuMont network.

Features of the program included "how to have a wardrobe for either $1.98 or $1098."{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Mig |title='Let George Do It' And He Does |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-maxine-barrat/145015809/ |access-date=April 8, 2024 |work=The Miami News |date=April 8, 1956 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408204924/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-maxine-barrat/145015809/ |archive-date=April 8, 2024 |page=37|via = Newspapers.com }}

Bob Loewi was the show's packager and director. Conover Career Girls modeled clothes on the show.{{cite magazine |date=September 11, 1949 |page=16 |title=DuMont |url=https://archive.org/details/rossreportstele03ross/page/n34/mode/1up?view=theater |magazine=Ross Reports |access-date=April 8, 2024 }}

Episode status

A single kinescope of this series survives at the Paley Center for Media in New York City.{{Citation needed |date=April 2024}}

References

Bibliography

David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) {{ISBN|1-59213-245-6}}
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) {{ISBN|0-14-024916-8}}