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The Jack Benny Show
Volume One
Programs: 67 – Time: 26 hrs, 44 min
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It's One Laugh After Another With Jack Benny
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Jack Benny's first major success was on the radio. He starred in a regular radio program from 1932 to 1955, establishing the format and personality he would transfer almost intact to television. Benny's radio program spent most of its run on NBC. In 1948, the entertainer, who had just signed a deal with the Music Corporation of American (MCA) that allowed him to form a company to produce the program and thereby make more money on it, was lured to CBS, where he stayed through the remainder of his radio career and most of his television years.
JACK BENNY. Real name: Benjamin Kubelsky. Born 14 February 1894 in Weaukegan, Illinois. Married Mary Livingstone (real name: Sayde Marks), 1927. Served in navy, World War I. Worked in vaudeville as violinist in orchestra pit, 1909-14; after military service in World War I, 1914-18, returned to vaudeville, touring as comic and dancer under name Ben K. Benny; small-part actor in Broadway musicals during the 1920s; first film appearance, Bright Moments (short), 1928; role as the emcee in feature film The Hollywood Revue of 1929, 1929; on Broadway in successful The Earl Carroll Vanities, 1930; radio debut, The Ed Sullivan Show, 1932; own radio series, The Jack Benny Show 1933-41; starring film roles in Buck Benny Rides Again, 1940; Love Thy Neighbor, 1940; Charley's Aunt, 1941; especially notable performance in film To Be or Not to Be, 1942; television series The Jack Benny Show, 1950-64 (CBS), 1964-65 (NBC); later guest roles in films Who Was That Lady?, 1962; It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1967; A Guide for the Married Man, 1967; The Man, 1972. Died of stomach cancer in Beverly Hills, California, 26 December 1974.
