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</html>";s:4:"text";s:37862:"Harris had previously become known to radio audiences as the band-leader-turned-cast-member of the same name on The Jack Benny Program while Faye had been a frequent guest on programs such as Rudy Vallée's variety shows. On April 5, 1936, Benny began his famous radio feud with rival Fred Allen when he satirized Allen's show. Allen himself wrote, "For years people have been asking me if Jack and I are friendly. Instead, the primary name of the show tied to the sponsor. THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM. Starting in the Lucky Strike era, Benny adopted a medley of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "Love in Bloom" as his theme music, opening every show. Listen to 610 episodes of The Jack Benny Show for free. During the 1953–54 season, a few episodes were filmed during the summer and the others were live, a schedule that allowed Benny to continue doing his radio show. In the classic cartoon "The Mouse that Jack Built", Benny and his wife are driven by Rochester in a sputtering Maxwell car. In the third season (1952–1953), the show was broadcast every four weeks. He was known for his comic timing and the ability to cause laughter with a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature … Kelly had been an old flame of Jack's, who had fallen on hard times. Arriving at NBC on March 3,[9] Benny did The Chevrolet Program until April 1, 1934, with Frank Black leading the band. Led first by Phil Harris and later by Bob Crosby, the orchestra, and in particular band member Frank Remley, were jokingly portrayed as often being too drunk to play properly, using an overturned bass drum to play cards on just minutes before a show and so enamored of liquor that the sight of a glass of milk would make them sick. Calling the sketch "King for a Day", Allen played the host and Benny a contestant who sneaked onto the show using the alias Myron Proudfoot. The Jack Benny Program. He continued with The General Tire Revue for the rest of that season, and in the fall of 1934, for General Foods as The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny (1934–42), and when sales of Jell-O were affected by sugar rationing during World War II, The Grape Nuts Flakes Program Starring Jack Benny (later the Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts Flakes Program) (1942–44). Find out when The Jack Benny Program is on TV, including Episode 2: From Palm Springs with Bob Hope. The sketch relates how Don and Jack met: Jack's radio sponsor, the Universal Corset Co., holds auditions for an announcer for Jack's program, and Don is the only one who laughs at Jack's bad jokes. In 2008, 25 public-domain episodes of the show, long thought lost, were located in a CBS vault. A skit heard numerous times on radio, and seen many times on television, had Mel Blanc as a Mexican in a sombrero and serape sitting on a bench. Oh, why did the governor have to give me that pardon!?" Mary Kelly as the Blue Fairy - A clumsy, overweight fairy, she appeared in several storytelling episodes. In one appearance, Ed asked Benny, "By the way, Mr. Benny ... what's it like on the outside?" Benny’s radio program was so well-honed that he effortlessly made the eventual transition into television in 1950. [8] With Ted Weems leading the band, Benny stayed on CBS until January 26, 1933.[1]. Halfway through the season, the famous "feud" with Fred Allen began, climaxing with a visit to New York, after which Eddie Anderson was cast as a porter. Benny: "So?" From 1954 to 1960, the program aired every other week, rotating with such shows as Private Secretary and Bachelor Father. The Canada Dry Program was on the air from May 2, 1932 until October 26, 1932. The basement vault gag was also used in the cartoon The Mouse that Jack Built and an episode[18] of The Lucy Show. From that date, new shows were produced for television but there were re-runs on radio until 1958. [8] On October 1, 1944, the show became The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny, when American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes took over as his radio sponsor, through the mid-1950s. James T. Aubrey, the president of CBS Television and a man known for his abrasive and judgmental decision-making style, infamously told Benny in 1963, "you're through. Outside of North America (being also one of the most popular shows on the CBC), one episode reportedly aired first in the United Kingdom (where one episode was filmed). The comic misadventures of the "skinflint" comedian and his friends. [19] When a sound-effects man missed a cue for the automobile engine, Mel Blanc quickly improvised a vocal imitation of a sputtering car engine starting up noisily that was so funny, it became a regular feature of the show. Benny responded, "... winter is nearly here, and the leaves are falling." [6] Benny's television shows were occasional broadcasts in his early seasons on TV, as he was still firmly dedicated to radio. World War II affected the show as Harris joined the Merchant Marines, being absent from the program from December 1942 until March 1943. Once, when Benny and his cast and crew were doing a series of shows in New York, the entire cast, including Eddie Anderson, stayed in a prominent New York hotel. Blanche Stewart contributed a variety of characters and animal sounds. According to the commentary on the Criterion edition of the film, his close-ups were filmed on a rear-projection stage at the Paramount studio. Benny had already done a number of shows on the West Coast for two years—featuring Jimmie Grier as guest conductor—whenever he was doing movie work. The Jack Benny Program è uno show radio-televisivo statunitense, con Jack Benny, andato in onda dal 1932 al 1955 in radio (con vari titoli) e dal 1950 al … The orchestra number would continue softly as background for Don Wilson's opening commercial. General Foods switched the Benny program from Jell-O to Grape-Nuts from 1942 to 1944, and it was, naturally, The Grape Nuts Program Starring Jack Benny. Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film. Larry Stevens – A tenor singer, he substituted for Dennis Day from November 1944 to March 1946, when Dennis served in the Navy. After the radio show ended in 1955, Benny took on another biweekly series, becoming a regular on Shower of Stars, CBS's hourlong comedy/variety anthology series, effectively appearing almost every week on one of the two series; on Shower of Stars, Benny's character finally turned 40, throwing a large birthday party for the occasion. Audio Credit: "The Jack Benny Program" by The Old Time Radio Researchers Group Metal tips! Benny had no idea what Burns was talking about, so he proceeded to light up. For example, on one program, Don Wilson accidentally misread Lucky Strike's slogan ("Be happy, go Lucky") as "Be Lucky, go happy", prompting a story arc over several weeks that had Wilson unable to appear on the show due to being traumatized by the error. Benny and his archaic auto were featured in a series of television and print ads for Texaco from the 1950s through the 1970s. Comedy radio program which ran on NBC from 1948 to 1954 starring real life couple Alice Faye and Phil Harris. Benny would then drive Blanc to insanity by exchanging the gift countless times throughout the episode. Burns, Allen, and Orson Welles guest-hosted several episodes in March and April 1943 when Benny was ill with pneumonia, while Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume appeared often in the 1940s as Benny's long-suffering neighbors. Jack Benny Program (10-Hour Collections) by Radio Spirits | Apr 1, 2002. With rare and magic perfume. [8] CBS aired repeats of previous 1953-55 radio episodes from 1956 to 1958 as The Best of Benny[1] for State Farm Insurance, which later sponsored his television program from 1960 through 1965. The alarm rang even when Benny opened his safe with the correct combination. Benny's sponsors included Chevrolet from 1933 to 1934, General Tire in 1934, and Jell-O from 1934 to 1942. The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.[1]. I can't stand it anymore!" That fall, Morrow joined the Army and Beloin left the show; they were replaced by Milt Josefsberg, John Tackaberry, George Balzer, and Cy Howard, the latter of whom was soon replaced by Sam Perrin. Discover every episode of The Jack Benny Program currently available! Jack is bed-ridden after catching a cold, for which he blames announcer, Don Wilson. When the Jack Benny Program premiered on television in 1950, a 1916 Maxwell Model 25 Tourer became one of the production's standard props. With a fine cast of supporting players Benny made his show into one of the all-time great radio comedies, portraying him as likeable character, despite being vain, argumentative and a skinflint. The suffix "Program" instead of "Show" was also a carryover from radio, where "program" rather than "show" was used frequently for presentations in the nonvisual medium. And when Benny asks where Blanc is going, Blanc replies, "to see his sister", Sue (Sue?, Sí. Quoted in Zolotow, Maurice. Shortly after they decamped at the hotel, a manager told Benny that some White guests from Mississippi had complained to him about Anderson staying in the hotel. By 1941, Jack Benny's Maxwell had become such a well-known aspect of popular culture that it was referenced in the Billy Mills song "I'm in Love with the Sound Effects Man" as heard on the June 17, 1941, Fibber McGee and Molly radio show (and later performed on a 1943 recording by Spike Jones). As with the radio shows, most of the television series has lapsed into the public domain, although several episodes (particularly those made from 1961 onward, including the entire NBC-TV run) remain under copyright. Early filmed episodes were shot by McCadden Productions at Hollywood Center Studios and later by Desilu Productions at Red Studios Hollywood with an audience brought in to watch the finished film for live responses. Benny often made public appearances in Maxwells. One Christmas program had Crosby agonizing over what to get Remley: Benny: "Well, why don't you get him a cordial; like a bottle of Drambuie?" The automobile was also featured in the 1943 Benny film The Meanest Man in the World. A series of gags was built around the premise that Benny appreciated the value of Sky Chief brand gasoline in keeping his car running smoothly, but was too cheap to buy more than one gallon at a time. With Eddie Anderson. I don't think that Jack Benny has an enemy in the world. Benny moved into television slowly; in his first season (1950–1951), he only performed on four shows, but by the 1951–1952 season, he was ready to do one show roughly every six weeks. The new writers emphasized sitcom situations instead of the film parodies prevalent in earlier years. Beginning in the 1960-1961 season, The Jack Benny Program began airing every week.This huge collection includes ninety-nine of the best half-hour shows in two eight DVD-R albums. The ongoing saga of the Maxwell was initially interrupted after just five years, when on the October 18, 1942, broadcast, Jack took his car to a local junkyard and contributed it to the World War II junk salvage drive, receiving $7.50 in war stamps in exchange. The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy. Audio CD $79.90 $ … Common situations included hosting parties, income-tax time, nights on the town, "backstage" interactions between Jack and his cast at the radio studio during show rehearsals, contract negotiations, or traveling by train or plane to and from Jack's many personal appearances throughout the country (hence the "Train leaving on track five" gag). CBS issued a press statement that any release was unlikely. Later in the show, comedic actor Frank Nelson was asked by Benny if he was the doorman. In one of his show's skits, Benny is a USO performer in the Pacific playing his violin when he comes under fire; Benny still plays his violin when two Japanese surrender to him–all the other enemy soldiers committed suicide rather than endure listening to Benny's terrible music! From the late 1950s until the last season on NBC, though, a laugh track was used to augment audience responses. One of Benny's writers, George Balzer, noted: "One of the nice things about writing for Jack Benny was that he never denied your existence. Protagonist of the show, Benny is a comic, vain, penny-pinching miser, insisting on remaining 39 years old on stage despite his actual age, and often … He said that while the ratings were still good (he cited a figure of some 18 million viewers per week, although he qualified that figure by saying he never believed the ratings services were doing anything more than guessing), advertisers complained that commercial time on his show was costing nearly twice as much as what they paid for most other shows, and he had grown tired of what was called the "rat race". MCA home video issued a 1960 version of the classic "Christmas Shopping" show in 1982 and a VHS set of 10 filmed episodes in 1990. I Was Betrayed. Benny answered the prize-winning question correctly and Allen crowned him "king" and showered him with a passel of almost meaningless prizes. Sam Hearn as Schlepperman - A Jewish character, he spoke with a Yiddish accent (his catch phrase: "Hullo, Stranger!"). Announcer Don Wilson was supposed to say he heard that Jack bought a new suit on Drew Pearson, but said the name wrong; Don said "Drear Pewson". [23] On October 28, 1950, he made his full network debut over CBS Television. Perhaps the climax of the feud came during Fred Allen's parody of popular quiz-and-prize show Queen for a Day, which was barely a year old when Allen decided to have a crack at it on The Fred Allen Show—an episode that has survived for today's listeners to appreciate. On radio, The Jack Benny Show ran … Jack is bed-ridden after catching a cold, for which he blames announcer, Don Wilson. Benny's Maxwell later became a 1923 Tourer. Over the years, the programme was sponsored by a diverse range of products from jelly, to tyres and cigarettes. Live episodes (and later live-on-tape episodes) of the Jack Benny Program were broadcast from CBS Television City with live audiences. "[11] Historical accounts (like those by longtime Benny writer Milt Josefsberg) indicate that Benny's role was essentially as head writer and director of his radio programs, though he was not credited in either capacity. When Benny asks his name, Blanc replies Sy, which would prompt the exchange, Sy?, Sí. Benny says he has no objections to the song in and of itself, only as his theme. From November 1954. On both television and radio, the format of the Jack Benny Program used a loose show-within-a-show format,[2] wherein the main characters were playing versions of themselves. Read about our approach to external linking. The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny was so successful in selling Jell-O, in fact, that General Foods could not manufacture it quickly enough when sugar shortages arose in the early years of World War II, and the company stopped advertising the dessert mix. The Jack Benny Program. In 1942, General Foods switched the sponsor product from Jell-O to Grape-Nuts. Glenn's role was a recurring one on the series, where he was often portrayed as having to support two people on one unemployment check (i.e., himself and Rochester). Burns, though, could crack Benny up with the least effort. The Jack Benny Program, which starred no less than Jack Benny himself, was a comedy series than went on-air for more than 30 years in both radio and television.It premiered on NBC Blue on May 2, 1932, and had its last episode on CBS radio on May 22, 1955, producing a … An example of this occurred at a party when Benny pulled out a match to light a cigar. Benny assured him that he would fix the matter. Aside from having a new writing team (Beloin and Bill Morrow, with script doctoring by Boasberg), Benny returned to the NBC Red Network and established the program in Hollywood. Although some details such as the car's body style and its exact model year varied over the years, what remained constant was that Benny's old car was so worn out that it would barely run, but the miserly Benny insisted he could get a few more miles out of it. With Eddie Anderson as the irrepressible Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Charlie Bagby The Sportsmen Quartet, announcer Don Wilson and orchestra conducted by Bob Crosby. His TV sponsors included American Tobacco's Lucky Strike (1950–59), Lever Brothers' Lux (1959–60), State Farm Insurance (1960–65), Lipton Tea (1960–62), General Foods' Jell-O (1962–64), and Miles Laboratories (1964–65). [citation needed], Four early-1960s episodes were rerun on CBS during the summer of 1977. Benny had had a strong ratings surge the previous year when his series was moved to Tuesday nights with the popular Red Skelton Hour in the time slot prior to his. Each year, Benny would buy a ridiculously cheap Christmas gift for Don Wilson, from a harried store clerk played by Mel Blanc. The show moved from CBS to NBC prior to the 1964–65 season. The Jack Benny Program is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra, starting from the 16th of January at 12pm. Restored versions first appeared on the short lived HA! He feared a separation of their two programs might prove fatal. Sometimes, the sponsors were the butt of jokes, though Benny did not use this device as frequently as his friend and "rival" Fred Allen did then, or as cast member Phil Harris later did on his successful radio sitcom. at least one of the radio players will work for you: He's got the knack of cutting out all the weak slush and keeping in only the strong, punchy lines. [32] June 2013 had the first official release of 18 rare live Benny programs from 1956 to 1964 by Shout! In many routines, Rochester gets the better of Benny, often pricking his boss' ego, or simply outwitting him. Benny had also been a familiar figure in Australia since the mid- to late 1930s with his radio show, and he made a special program for ATN-7 Jack Benny In Australia in March 1964, after a successful tour of Sydney and Melbourne. In later years, Benny would encounter Mel Blanc's wife (played by Jean Vander Pyl) or the clerk's psychiatrist at the store, and drive them crazy, as well. If you like this series, check out otrpodcasts.com for even more classic radio shows! Jack Benny is probably the best comedy show of all old time radio. Jack Benny was a regular on his own radio program since 1932. 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Then, a song by the tenor was followed by situation comedy involving an event of the week, a miniplay, or a satire of a current movie. Benny alone sustained a classic repertoire of running gags in his own right, though, including his skinflint radio and television persona; regular cast members' and guest stars' reference to his "baby blue" eyes, always sure to elicit a self-satisfied smirk or patently false attempt at modesty from Benny; perpetually giving his age as 39; and ineptitude at violin playing, most frequently demonstrated by futile attempts to perform Rodolphe Kreutzer's Étude No. The Jack Benny Program aired from May 2, 1932 until June 22, 1958. He is my favorite comedian and I hope to be his friend until he is forty. Its inane lyrics and insipid melody guaranteed that it would never be published or recorded, but Benny continued to try to con, extort, or otherwise inveigle some of his musical guests (including The Smothers Brothers and Peter, Paul and Mary) to perform it. From October 1934 until May 1955, each fall every Sunday evening one program captivated millions of Americans, as people across the country tuned their radio dials … In the fall of 1935, Don Bestor was replaced by Johnny Green as the maestro, while Parker was replaced by Michael Bartlett, who himself left after 13 weeks, with Kenny Baker taking over. As his trousers began to come off, Benny howled, "Allen, you haven't seen the end of me!" Episode guide, trailer, review, preview, cast list and where to stream it on demand, on catch up and download. Some shows were entire domestic sitcoms revolving around some aspect of Benny's life (e.g. The Jack Benny Program appeared infrequently during its first two years on CBS-TV. The first was about Jack's birthday and the second was about preparing to travel with Rochester and the gang to New York. The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.. By this time, all shows were filmed at Universal Television. In his unpublished autobiography, I Always Had Shoes (portions of which were later incorporated by Benny's daughter, Joan, into her memoir of her parents, Sunday Nights at Seven),[29] Benny said that he made the decision to end his TV series in 1965. Factory. THE JACK BENNY SHOW IN THE 1940'S Welcome to "The Jack Benny Show in the 1940's": a website devoted to a history of, and episodic logs of, the JACK BENNY radio program during the decade of the forties. It premiered on NBC Blue on May 2, 1932, and had its last episode on CBS radio on May 22, 1955, producing a … The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy. [33] This set, part of Benny's private collection at the UCLA film and television library, included guest shots by Jack Paar, John Wayne, Tony Curtis, Gary Cooper, Dick Van Dyke, Rock Hudson, Natalie Wood, and President Harry Truman, and the only TV appearance with longtime radio foe Ronald Colman.[33]. As of 2011, the series has run on Antenna TV, part of a long-term official syndication distribution deal. network in 1990. A running gag in Benny's private life concerned George Burns. (Ed thought a crosstown bus was "a red and yellow dragon".) Now what the hell has that got to do with me?". The regular and continuing Jack Benny Program was telecast on CBS from October 28, 1950 to September 15, 1964 (finally becoming a weekly show in the 1960–1961 season), and on NBC from September 25, 1964 to September 10, 1965. Changing his original response at the suggestion of the writers, Nelson said, "Well, who do you think I am, Drear Pewson?" [24] Beginning in the 1960–1961 season, the Jack Benny Program began airing every week. On the broadcast of January 8, 1950, journalist Drew Pearson was the subject of a joke gone wrong. Allen proudly announced, "Tomorrow night, in your ermine robe, you will be whisked by bicycle to Orange, New Jersey, where you will be the judge in a chicken-cleaning contest," to which Benny joyously declared, "I'm king for a day!" In one episode of the Benny radio show, Ed the Guard actually agreed when Benny invited him to take a break and come back to the surface world, only to discover that modern conveniences and transportation, which had not been around the last time he had been to the surface, terrorized and confused him. Starting with the October 24, 1937, radio show, when Jack proudly announced the purchase of his car, a running joke began that Benny drove an old Maxwell automobile, a brand that went out of business in 1925. George Burns described Benny as "the greatest editor of material in the business. Jack, who remained 39-years-old, kept his money in his basement and drove his old Maxwell car just as he had done on the radio. Over the years, in the Christmas episodes, Benny bought and repeatedly exchanged cuff links, golf tees, a box of dates, a paint set (water colors or oils), and a gopher trap. His radio shows often ended with the orchestra playing "Hooray for Hollywood". Benny sometimes joked about the propriety of "Love in Bloom" as his theme song. However, much of the radio audience may have remained unaware that the Maxwell was ever gone, because before long Benny was heard traveling around in a decrepit old car again, and by the end of the 1940s, his car was once more specifically identified as a Maxwell. Over the years, the programme was sponsored by a diverse range of products from jelly, to tyres and cigarettes. 104 episodes personally selected by Benny and Irving Fein, Benny's associate since 1947,[30] were placed into syndication in 1968 by MCA TV. By that time, the practice of using the sponsor's name as the title began to fade. On radio, The Jack Benny Show ran from February 1932 to May 1955. [3] The show often broke the fourth wall, with the characters interacting with the audience and commenting on the program and its advertisements. It’s classic comedy that stood the test of time. In keeping with his "stingy" schtick, on one of his television specials he remarked that, to his way of looking at things, a "special" is when the price of coffee is marked down. During his lone NBC season, CBS aired repeats on weekdays and Sunday afternoons. In a statement released on the day after Allen's death, Benny said, "People have often asked me if Fred Allen and I were really friends in real life. In contrast to Fred Allen, who initially wrote his own radio scripts (and extensively rewrote scripts produced in later years by a writing staff), Jack Benny was often described by his writers as a consummate comedy editor rather than a writer per se. Benny's longest-running sponsor, was the American Tobacco Company's Lucky Strike cigarettes, from 1944 to 1955, when the show was usually announced as The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny. The laughter was so loud and chaotic at the chain of events that the Allen show announcer, Kenny Delmar, was cut off the air while trying to read a final commercial and the show's credits. Eddie Anderson was the first black man to have a recurring role in a national radio show, which was significant because at the time, black characters were not uncommonly played by white actors in blackface. [1]:359Allen kicked the feud off on his own show on December 30, 1936, after child violinist Stuart Canin gave a performance of François Schubert's The Bee[21]:131 credibly enough that Allen wisecracked about "a certain alleged violinist" who should by comparison be ashamed of himself. Cast. [4] The show usually opened with a song by the orchestra or banter between Benny and Don Wilson. With Jack Benny, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Don Wilson, Dennis Day. Nevertheless, for years, Benny insisted in contract negotiations that his writers pen the sponsor's commercial in the middle of the program (leaving the sponsor to provide the opening and closing spots) and the resulting ads were cleverly and wittily worked into the storyline of the show. In 1936, after a few years of broadcasting from New York, Benny moved the show to Los Angeles, allowing him to bring in guests from among his show-business friends, including Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Judy Garland, Barbara Stanwyck, Bing Crosby, Burns and Allen (George Burns was Benny's closest friend), and many others. Green was replaced by Phil Harris. Day enlisted in the Navy in early 1944, not returning until 1946. This was in contrast to many successful radio or television comedians, such as Bob Hope, who changed writers frequently. On CBS-TV [ 10 ] of `` Love in Bloom '' was later the theme of his television show song. 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