April 19, 1942 – Don’s play about JELL-O stars Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone and Dennis Day. Plus Jack steals a joke from his corny sound man and much more!
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Jack’s Studio Dressing Room
April 23, 1939 – On the set of Jack’s movie “Man About Town” we meet Guests Binnie Barns and Mark Sandrich with a cameo by Claudette Colbert…all performed in the radio studio by the regular cast with bit players doing the celebrity voices. Meanwhile, Rochester tries to collect on the bet he made with Jack Benny after the Joe Lewis boxing match. And they subtly take a jab at Chamberlain and his Munich Agreement with Hitler.
NBC San Francisco
April 26, 1942 – Jack Benny and the gang are at the new NBC building in San Francisco. Listen closely and you will hear them mention 7-Up, Red Skelton’s catchphrase “I Dood It”, and “Havanna Nights”. They also do a western skit called Jack Hawkin’s Revenge.
Seventh Anniversary
April 30, 1939 – It’s Jack Benny’s 7th Anniversary in Radio. At the time there where also two World’s Fairs going on. One in New York, the other in San Francisco. Listen also for quick references to drive-in movies and “Lloyds of London” and Esquire Magazine.
Frank Sinatra
May 2, 1948 – Part of this episode is a re-used script from April 27, 1941. Guest Star Frank Sinatra. That skinny kid won an Oscar for “The House I Live In” in 1945 and was currently in the movie “Miracle of the Bells”. Not to mention the fact that he had his own radio show “Your Hit Parade”. This week the negotiate a price for him to sing on The Jack Benny Show.
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