Author: thisdaybenny

January 22, 1961 – Jack Benny goes grocery shopping and runs into Frank Nelson.

February 25, 1950 – In this public service film, Jack Benny joins a handful of celebrities to learn about a new group called The Christophers.

November 23, 1941 – Thanksgiving Day Dinner. Jack Benny invites his cast to his house for dinner including Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson and his wife Peggy, and Phil Harris and his new wife Alice Faye. Dennis is in blackface helping Rochester serve the meal.

References include Miles Standish, Chipped Beef, Hedy Lamarr, Humphrey Bogart, and gossip columnists Louella Parsons, Harrison Carroll, Jimmy Star, Herb Stein, and Sidney Skolsky.

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November 16, 1941 – He fumbled the ball. Jack Benny tells Don Wilson about his latest hunting trip, Phil Harris plans to be in a play of the pilgim historical fiction story “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, Dennis Day asks Jack about the NBC 15th Anniversary special from the night before, and Mary Livingstone plays a football player in the skit. The football announcers are Frank Nelson and Arthur Q. Bryan (the voice of Elmer Fudd).

References includemovie “Ah Wilderness!”, Commodore Dewey taking Manila Bay, plus a host of movie stars.

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November 9, 1941 – Football Game. Jack Benny is making a movie (To Be Or Not To Be) with Carole Lombard and director Ernst Lubitsch. Phil Harris brings his pal, Leo Durocher, the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

References include Fred Allen, John Barrymore’s profile, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey, Alexander Korda, Al Smith and more.

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