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    Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky; February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success playing the violin...
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  • The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio and television comedy series. The show ran for over three decades, from 1932 to 1955 on radio...
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  • films featuring comedian Jack Benny. Benny's career lasted from the early 20th century until his death in 1974. In Jack Benny's first film he starred along...
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    comedienne and actress. She was the wife and radio partner of comedian Jack Benny. Enlisted casually to perform on her husband's program, she proved a talented...
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    Jones, usually known simply as Rochester, the valet of Jack Benny on the NBC radio show The Jack Benny Program. Anderson became the first African American...
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    Jack Binion (born 1937) is an American businessman and was chairman of Wynn Resorts (2006-2018). He is the son of casino magnate Benny Binion. Jack worked...
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    and Jack Benny. She often appeared on Benny's radio program, sometimes in a parody of her own movies, and made her television debut on The Jack Benny Program...
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    He made numerous guest appearances on television shows, including The Jack Benny Program, I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys, The Addams Family, Alice, and Sanford...
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    best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny, but that was only part of his appeal. Radio historian John Dunning (in...
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    first broadcast across America by Jack Benny on November 27, 1962, as the tough-talking, street-wise talent agent in "Jack Meets Japanese Agent". In 1964...
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    orchestra leader and a pioneer in radio situation comedy, first with The Jack Benny Program, then in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show in which he co-starred...
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  • on The Jack Benny Program (Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Mel Blanc, and the Sportsmen Quartet). Other possible name references to Jack Benny Program...
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  • Kitzel", first on the Al Pearce radio show in 1937 then as a regular on the Jack Benny radio show for 12 years, and on The Abbott and Costello radio show during...
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  • fires Jack, but Benny does not realize that Jack is upset, and even tries to play with the very stressed-out Jack. Benny kidnaps Ron, and Jack sees this...
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  • Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian. He is remembered for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show,...
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    Rodney Dangerfield (redirect from Jack Roy)
    Dangerfield from an episode by Jack Benny on his radio program in a 1941 broadcast. The name was referenced as an actor who Jack had invited to his upcoming...
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    and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs, including those of Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, Judy Canova...
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  • The Jack Benny Program, as opposed to the radio program of the same name. Tied with Dr. Kildare Tied with I've Got a Secret and Lassie The Jack Benny Program...
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  • Buck Benny Rides Again is a 1940 American Western comedy film from Paramount Pictures starring Jack Benny and Ellen Drew. The film featured regulars from...
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    remembered best as the rotund announcer and comic foil to the star of The Jack Benny Program. Wilson played football for the University of Colorado in the...
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    Dennis Day's mother, Mrs. Day on both radio and television versions of The Jack Benny Program (1939–1962) and as Hilda Crocker on December Bride (1952–1959)...
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    Question. The Jack Benny Program featured Hal March as a contestant in an October 20, 1957 spoof with Benny asking the questions. As a gag, Benny actually...
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    host of Take It or Leave It, a show with a top prize of $64. In 1947, Jack Benny, who was impressed by Paar's U.S.O. performances, suggested that Paar...
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    in The Gisele MacKenzie Show. He was also a regular cast member of The Jack Benny Program, on both radio and television, taking over the role of bandleader...
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    Waukegan? Jack Benny: Mary, I was born in Waukegan — how can you follow that?!. On a 1959 episode of the television game show What's My Line?, Benny quipped...
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    comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny, and featuring Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges...
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    on numerous programs while working with comedians of the era such as Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, and Lucille Ball. Her expertise in dialect and characterization...
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    playing all the roles as 22 different Hollywood stars, ranging from Jack Benny to Jack Webb. The album was released in early November, but it had to be withdrawn...
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    first time on Jack Benny's radio show on October 8, 1939, taking the place of another tenor, Kenny Baker. He remained associated with Benny's radio and television...
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    segments in Technicolor. The masters of ceremonies are Conrad Nagel and Jack Benny. At the 2nd Academy Awards, the film received a Best Picture nomination...
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