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Aug 11, 2012 · At the peak of radio in the 40s George and Gracie along with Jack Benny were the highest paid performers, earning $10,000/week. (Benny did better as he got the entire $10,000, while George and Gracie split their $10,000) Jack Benny's wife was a real bitch and one of the few people Gracie Allen disliked in real life.
Jan 28, 2024 · Please to get full access and no ads for $1.99 or less per month. The Mouse that Jack built. The cast of the Jack Benny Program portray themselves as cartoon mice in this 1959 Warner Brothers Merrie Melodie cartoon. Mel Blanc is not included in the cast. Offsite Link. by Anonymous. reply 2.
Jun 13, 2022 · Fred Allen often sent Benny into hysterics on the radio show. If Allen's ad libs were pre-written, Benny did a good job laughing hysterically at them. The Jack Benny TV program was far less funny to me because after the first few live seasons it was filmed, and there was rarely any ad-libbing, pre-written or otherwise.
May 11, 2020 · September 25, 2020 1:49 PM. Bob Conrad not only fooled the world, he fooled himself. Apparently, despite constant sex with blond twinks, he believed he was straight and sex with young boys was just, you know, helping them along with their careers and their lives. He was an altruist, not a homosexualist.
May 27, 2019 · Meantime, I must go now and give a blood transfusion to Suzy Parker. - Jack Paar, 1961, My Saber Is Bent - Chapter 14 - Fairies and Communists. It is crazy that he was such a fan of Jack Benny, yet he rails against camp. Benny and also Bob Hope were extremely campy.
Jul 24, 2019 · In later years Burns admitted that following an argument over a pricey silver table centerpiece Allen wanted, he had a very brief affair with a Las Vegas showgirl. Stricken by guilt, he phoned Jack Benny and told him about the indiscretion. However, Allen overheard the conversation and Burns quietly bought the expensive centerpiece.
Oct 15, 2020 · Jack Benny was great at poking fun at himself (his violin playing, his 'thriftiness') and, you're right, his timing. He was laid back and took his time with a joke as did Newhart. Carson could do the same thing in his monologues. On the other hand, poor Robin Williams and his maniacal cackling was never funny to me.
He served his sentence at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. He remained there until he was paroled shortly before his twenty-first birthday. Calhoun worked at a number of odd jobs. In 1943, while riding horseback in the Hollywood Hills, he met actor Alan Ladd, whose wife, Sue Carol was an agent.
Jan 21, 2021 · [quote]Jack Benny was/is 100x the legend that Bob Hope was. It seems like Hope's humor was secondhand from Jack. Jack Benny's stand up routines are still hilarious.
Dec 11, 2022 · Who knew Jackie Gleason and Jasmine Guy would have a connection. Jackie's daughter, Judy Geeson, married director Guy Hamilton, brother of George and Margaret. He's hardly forgotten! The Honeymooners is always being shown somewhere- Joyce Randolph, aka Trixie is still very much alive.
