Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore, and Phil Silvers on “CBS: ON THE AIR” in 1978.

Robert Cummings, Doris Day, and Phil Silvers pose in matching horn-rimmed eyeglasses while sitting in folding chairs on the set of director Jack Donohue's film, 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝑴𝒆 in (1954).

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TV Guide -  October 5 - 11, 1963

Phil Silvers (born Phillip Silver; May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) Entertainer and comedy actor, known as “The King of Chutzpah.” He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post in which he played Master Sergeant Ernest (Ernie) Bilko.

In the 1963–1964 television season, he appeared as Harry Grafton, a factory foreman interested in get-rich-quick schemes, much like the previous Bilko character, in CBS’s 30-episode The New Phil Silvers Show, with co-stars Stafford Repp, Herbie Faye, Buddy Lester, Elena Verdugo as his sister, Audrey, and her children, played by Ronnie Dapo and Sandy Descher.

Silvers also guested on The Beverly Hillbillies, and various TV variety shows such as The Carol Burnett Show, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, and The Dean Martin Show. Perhaps Silvers’ most memorable guest appearance was as curmudgeonly Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba in an episode (titled The Producer) on Gilligan’s Island (broadcast in 1966), where he and the castaways performed a musical version of Hamlet. (Wikipedia)

Robert Cummings-Doris Day-Phil Silvers "Lucky me" 1954, de Jack Donohue.

Phil Silvers rehearsing as “Genius” in Cover Girl (1944).

Here, he’s “a genius at everything but minding his own business.” as he interrupts the two lovers, Rusty & Danny (Rita Huayworth & Gene Kelly)

Advertisement for Camel cigarettes featuring an endorsement by Phil Silvers (1956).

That laugh. That boy was really adorable especially in those years

Helen Hayes, center, presenter at the 1952 Tonys, March 30, 1952. From left, Oscar Hammerstein II (who won for The King & I), Gertrude Lawrence (also TK&I), Richard Rodgers (TK&I), Hayes, Phil Silvers (Top Banana), Judy Garland (Special Award), and Yul Brynner (TK&I).

Hayes, who also served as president of the American Theatre Wing, was a member of the EGOT club: she won two Oscars, two Tonys, one Emmy, and one Grammy (for best spoken word recording for “Great American Documents” [1977]).

Photo: Associated Press via the Washington Post

Audrey Hepburn, Debbie Reynolds, and Phil Silvers at the Ice Capades in 1954 Photography by Murray Garrett

Phil Silvers, Audrey Meadows, and Cesar Romero look distinctly embarrassed in a gloomy potpourri.

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Phil Silvers with 4-year-old Liza Minnelli on set of SUMMER STOCK (1950)

Phil Silvers, Judy and Robert Goulet in a promotional photo for Judy’s 1963 television special.

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Rita Hayworth had a wonderful experience making Cover Girl.

"We had a sensational time with Gene and Phil," she later said. "I knew we had a rapport -- they were both so great to work with. It was a happy time. I didn't know we were doing anything special, but you knew it was going to be good because it felt good making it."

As it happens, it was during production on this film that Hayworth married Orson Welles.