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What was Meredith Willson's relationship with Hollywood?
Meredith Willson's work in films included composing the score for Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940).
How did the film The Great Dictator do?
The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.
What other film work did Meredith Willson do besides The Great Dictator?
Meredith Willson arranged music for the score of William Wyler's The Little Foxes (1941).
How did Meredith Willson start writing in Hollywood?
Meredith Willson moved to San Francisco, California, as the concert director for radio station KFRC, and then as a musical director for the NBC radio network in Hollywood.
What was the AFRS?
During World War II, Meredith Willson worked for the United States' Armed Forces Radio Service.
What else did you find interesting in the Hollywood section of the Meredith Willson article besides him working for the Armed Forces Radio Service?
Meredith Willson became the musical director for a prestigious comedy-variety program.
What was the name of the program Meredith Willson had on NBC in 1942?
The Big Show

Question: What happened on this program?
Self-contained rewrite: What happened on the program The Big Show?