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The Jack Benny Program
''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. He played one role throughout his radio and television careers, a caricature of himself as a minimally talented musician and penny pincher who was the butt of all the jokes. Producer Hilliard Marks was the brother of Benny's wife Mary Livingstone. Format On both television and radio, ''The Jack Benny Program'' used a loose show-within-a-show format, wherein the main characters were playing versions of themselves. The show often broke the fourth wall, with the characters interacting with the audience and commenting on the program and its advertisements. In his first years on radio (c. 1932–1935), Jack Benny followed the format of many other radio comedians, standing at the microphone, telling jokes and stories, and introducing band numbers. As the characters of Jack and his cast became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Benny
Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success playing violin on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with a highly popular comedic career in radio, television, and film. He was known for his comic timing and the ability to cause laughter with a long pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated summation "''Well!''" His radio and television programs, popular from 1932 until his death in 1974, were a major influence on the sitcom genre. Benny portrayed himself as a miser who obliviously played his violin badly and claimed perpetually to be 39 years of age. Early life Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky in Chicago, Illinois, on February 14, 1894, and grew up in nearby Waukegan. He was the son of Jewish immigrants Meyer Kubelsky (1864–1946) and Emma Sachs Kubelsky (1869–1917), sometimes called "Naomi". Meyer was a saloon ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kearns
Joseph Sherrard Kearns TV Guide. July 15–21, 1961, Savetheorgan.org; retrieved September 28, 2011. (February 12, 1907 – February 17, 1962) was an American actor, who is best remembered for his role as George Wilson ("Mr. Wilson") on the television series '' Dennis the Menace'' from 1959 until his death in 1962. He was also a prolific radio actor, and provided the voice of the Doorknob in the 1951 animated Disney film, '''' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 In Radio
The year 1932 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. Events *8 January – Pittsburgh radio activist and catholic priest, Father Cox, and his army of unemployed men return home after a protest march on Depression era Washington, D.C. *15 February – ''Clara, Lu & Em'', generally regarded as the first daytime network soap opera, debuts in its morning time slot over the Blue Network of NBC Radio in the United States, having originally been a late evening program. *1 March – Both NBC and CBS go to Hopewell, New Jersey to provide live coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping. *7 March – First transmission of Finnish Yleisradio's daily Morning Devotions programme. *24 March – A radio variety show is broadcast from a moving train for the first time, when Belle Baker hosts a show on a train traveling around the New York area. It is broadcast on the New York City station WABC. She talks first about the weather then, about local news regarding home-towns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Goldman
Harold "Hal" Goldman (December 5, 1919 – June 27, 2001) was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, television director A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program or section of a program. They are generally responsible for decisions about the editorial content and creative style of a program, and ensuring the prod .... References External links * American male screenwriters American television directors Primetime Emmy Award winners 1919 births 2001 deaths Writers from Saint Paul, Minnesota Screenwriters from Minnesota 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Gordon (screenwriter)
Alvin Lawrence Gordon (April 21, 1923 – May 23, 2012) was an American television comedy writer. He was best known for his work on shows such as ''The Jack Benny Program'', ''The Carol Burnett Show'', and ''Three's Company''. Early life Gordon was born in Akron, Ohio, the middle of three children born to Nathan Gordon (né Gorodetsky), a jeweler and Sylvia Gordon (née Milton), Jewish immigrants from Russia. The family relocated to The Bronx in his early childhood. He served in the Air Corps during World War II and was stationed in The Azores, where he pitched jokes to a troupe of writers stranded on the island. Post-War, these writers invited him to move to Los Angeles, where he began his comedy career in earnest. Career After a brief stint working for Eddie Cantor, Al found work with ''The Jack Benny Program'' prior to its move to television. With partner Hal Goldman, he co-ran the radio show when Benny transitioned to television. Gordon, along with Goldman and the other Benny w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tackaberry
John Tackaberry (October 9, 1912 – June 24, 1969) was a radio writer for ''The Jack Benny Show''. Early years He was born in Adelaide, Australia and grew up in Oodnadatta, a small railroad stop in the Simpson Desert in the Australian State of South Australia. His father, Arthur Lee Tackaberry, a graduate of Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, was, by birth, an East Texan and his mother, Myrtle Amelia Tackaberry (née Stace) was born and raised in Palmerston North, New Zealand. His father was the doctor for the Ghan Railroad which, at the time, ran from Adelaide to Alice Springs, Australia. In 1920 he moved with his parents and sister to Houston, Texas USA, his father's birth state. He grew to manhood in Houston and was briefly a student at the University of Texas School of Law. However, due to the financial considerations of The Great Depression, he dropped out of school and went to work in the Texas oil fields. Writing career About 1943 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Josefsberg
Milt Josefsberg (June 29, 1911 – December 14, 1987) was an American screenwriter. Career Milt Josefsberg's first big break came in 1938, when he was hired as writer on Bob Hope's radio program.Josefsberg, Milt: ''The Jack Benny Show'' (Arlington House Publishers, 1977), p. 52. , Five years later, in the summer of 1943, he left Hope and took over as one of four new writers on ''The Jack Benny Program'' on the radio. At the time, Benny's two main writers, Bill Morrow and Ed Beloin, had just recently left the show. Josefsberg was to remain with Jack Benny for twelve years, until the closure of Benny's radio program in 1955. During his long association with Benny, Josefsberg would collaborate with all of Benny's other writers, although he tended to work most closely with John Tackaberry. From the early 1950s, he also worked on Benny's TV show. Even after his partnership with Benny officially ended, Josefsberg would reportedly write stand-up material for Benny on occasion in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Perrin
Sam Perrin (August 15, 1901 - January 8, 1998) was an American screenwriter. Biography Perrin was born to a Jewish family. He died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Geography Woodland Hills is in the southwestern region of the San Fernando Valley, which is located east of Ca .... References External links American male screenwriters Emmy Award winners 1901 births 1998 deaths 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Balzer
George Balzer (September 1, 1915 - September 28, 2006) was an American screenwriter and television producer. Biography Balzer was born to a Roman Catholic family 4 November 2006 in , and spent most of his career writing for . He died, aged 91, in Van Nuys, California
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Howard Snyder
Howard Snyder (May 24, 1909 - April 13, 1963) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for Jack Benny's radio and television program ''The Jack Benny Program'' from 1936 to the early 1960s, often in partnership with Hugh Wedlock Jr., and also wrote for 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Universal and Paramount Pictures, Paramount. Snyder died in April 1963 in a traffic accident in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 53. References External links * 1909 births 1963 deaths People from New York (state) Screenwriters from New York (state) American male television writers American radio writers American television writers American male screenwriters 20th-century American screenwriters American comedy writers Road incident deaths in California {{US-tv-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Wedlock Jr
Hugh may refer to: *Hugh (given name) Noblemen and clergy French * Hugh the Great (died 956), Duke of the Franks * Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France under his father, Robert II * Hugh, Duke of Alsace (died 895), modern-day France * Hugh of Austrasia (7th century), Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia * Hugh I, Count of Angoulême (1183–1249) * Hugh II, Count of Angoulême (1221–1250) * Hugh III, Count of Angoulême (13th century) * Hugh IV, Count of Angoulême (1259–1303) * Hugh, Bishop of Avranches (11th century), France * Hugh I, Count of Blois (died 1248) * Hugh II, Count of Blois (died 1307) * Hugh of Brienne (1240–1296), Count of the medieval French County of Brienne * Hugh, Duke of Burgundy (d. 952) * Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (1057–1093) * Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy (1084–1143) * Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (1142–1192) * Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (1213–1272) * Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (1294–1315) * Hugh Capet (939–996), King of France * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Beloin
Edmund Beloin (April 1, 1910 – May 26, 1992) was an American writer of radio, film, and television. Biography Beloin was a medical student at New York University when he changed career paths and became a writer in 1931. Bill Morrow and Beloin were signed to ''The Jack Benny Program'' for the 1936–1937 season and remained for seven years. He created the character of Mr. Billingsley, Benny's zany, oft-hungover boarder who frequently made ''non sequitur'' remarks. Beloin liked the character so much that he played the role. He left radio for films around June 1943. He had tried to join the Army, but was rejected on medical grounds. He worked with Henry Garson for much of his career. He wrote the films ''All in a Night's Work'', ''G.I. Blues'', ''Visit to a Small Planet'', '' Don't Give Up the Ship'', '' Paris Holiday'', '' The Sad Sack'', '' My Favorite Spy'', '' The Great Lover'', ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'', and ''Road to Rio''. Garson and he were nominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
