P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
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Gail Patrick, Jack Benny and Ida Lupino in the Paramount musical comedy “Artists and Models” (1939). Directed by Raoul Walsh.

#oldhollywood #musicals #jackbenny #idalupino

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P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
376 followers · 1779 posts · Server masto.ai

Gail Patrick, Jack Benny and Ida Lupino in the Paramount musical comedy “Artists and Models” (1939). Directed by Raoul Walsh.

#oldhollywood #musicals #jackbenny #idalupino

Last updated 1 year ago

P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
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Jack Benny and Kay Francis in the cross-dressing farce, “Charley’s Aunt” (1941) — taken from a popular play written in 1892

#hollywood #comedies #jackbenny #kayfrancis

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P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
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Cast of the Jack Benny radio program: Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Jack Benny, Don Wilson and Mel Blanc.

#oldtimeradio #jackbenny

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P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
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After reading both of Fred Allen’s books and a book about Ed Gardner’s “Duffy’s Tavern” earlier this year, it seems appropriate to keep up the radio comedy theme and try a book on Jack Benny.

#oldtimeradio #jackbenny

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P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
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Three television comedy legends of the 1950s at the 1954 Emmys: George Burns, Ann Sothern and Jack Benny.

#classictv #georgeburns #annsothern #jackbenny

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P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
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After seeing Ann Sheridan mostly wasted in “Navy Blues” (1941), I decided it was a good time to re-visit one of the too few films where she gets to showcase her abilities, “George Washington Slept Here” (1942) with Jack Benny.

#oldhollywood #annsheridan #jackbenny

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P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
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Jack Benny and Fred Allen illustrate their long-running “feud”, ca. 1940s

#oldtimeradio #jackbenny #fredallen

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Paul Brenner · @pbrenner
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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m an artist. I wish I never heard of food or money.”
Jack Benny in The Horn Blows at Midnight

#thehornblowsatmidnight #allandwan #jackbenny #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

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P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
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Humphrey Bogart, Jack Benny and Sara Berner on The Jack Benny Show, Oct. 25, 1953

#classictv #jackbenny #humphreybogart

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P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
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Jack Benny, Richard Arlen and Ida Lupino in “Artists and Models” (1937). Ida plays a model in this and it’s fun to notice the photo Arlen is holding is a glamour portrait of Ida from the previous year’s “Your for the Asking”

#jackbenny #richardarlen #idalupino #artistsandmodels

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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

THE JACK BENNY SHOW - 5/23/1954, CBS

This 1954 comedy sketch includes some of the earliest "transsexual jokes" in my video collection (though there were earlier ones on radio). They're indirect references, since TV censors would not have allowed anything more specific.

"Denmark jokes," often mocking in tone, were common in US comedy for about 20 years starting in 1952, after news of Christine Jorgensen's surgery in Denmark first made headlines.

In this clip, note how Jack Benny loses concentration when guest star Bob Hope starts ad-libbing new lines. The skit, "The Road to Nairobi," is a spoof of the "Road to..." films that Bob Hope costarred in with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour.

youtu.be/m0qGKNr5NVA

#mediastudies #trans #lgbtq #jackbenny #bobhope #sketchcomedy

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Classic Movies Today · @classicmovies
181 followers · 812 posts · Server botsin.space

78 years ago:
It's in the Bag! (US)
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
1945-04-21
themoviedb.org/movie/111570

#itsinthebag #binniebarnes #jackbenny #donameche #unitedartists #classicmovies

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Noir Dame (extra crispy) · @noirdame
108 followers · 240 posts · Server mastodon.social

🍿 🍿 Just a reminder that tonight's ⛺ 💉⛺ is 11:30 PM Eastern Standard Time - THE MEANEST MAN IN THE WORLD - 🍿 🍿 Well! That's
Hawkeye Pierce and BJ Hunnycutt stole a lot of their best gags froim their hero Jack. Watch this fun movie as he steals candy from a baby - Really!
Among the bystanders - Anne Revere and Tor "Plan 9 from Outer Space" Johnson

youtube.com/watch?v=6z3ikFqDDR

#mashmonday #jackbenny #livetooting #FilmMastodon

Last updated 2 years ago

J L Kalman · @jlkalman
1 followers · 76 posts · Server toot.community

And this is Valentine’s Day and the birthday of who we and back with a picture of the wedding chapel. If this speaks to you please repost it.

#jackbenny #quote #harmonyca #quotograph

Last updated 2 years ago

P.M.Bryant · @pmbryant
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Ida Lupino and Jack Benny in a promotion for the Paramount musical comedy, “Artists and Models” (1937). Directed by Raoul Walsh.

#classichollywood #classicfilm #idalupino #jackbenny #musicals

Last updated 2 years ago

Pat · @Pat
129 followers · 2353 posts · Server qoto.org

(fair use clip, Jack Benny Program 1956, and maybe in the public domain due to lack of copyright notice)

#joke #jackbenny #uspol #horoscope #retrocausality

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Kyle Hebert ✅ · @kylehebert
25 followers · 49 posts · Server mastodon.social

was the legend who inspired me as a kid to wanna do voice acting for animation. Stumbled across a classic interview ( is there as well). Lots of great stories.

youtu.be/2ZRUtldIS8k

#melblanc #johnnycarson #jackbenny

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Nathan · @BroncoTruck
127 followers · 8971 posts · Server mastodon.social

RT @aaronhgoldberg@twitter.com

If you’ve used this gif before and wondered where it came from…. youtube.com/watch?v=2-54gVEfDD Hour (1965) 🙂😂

🐦🔗: twitter.com/aaronhgoldberg/sta

#jackbenny #waltdisney

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