TV Guide: Jack Benny

Listing: To Be or Not to Be

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 27 08:00 PM TCM

Listing: Principle of the Thing

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:30:00 -0400

Sun Oct 26 09:30 PM WGN Ralph tries to outsmart his landlord. Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows. Norton: Art Carney. Trixie: Joyce Randolph.

Video: To Be or Not to Be -- (Movie Clip) Like My Dress?

TCM — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:59:54 -0400

Maria (Carole Lombard) makes her entrance in a smashing dress that the producer (Charles Halton) and her husband Joseph (Jack Benny) don't like in Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be, 1942.

Video: To Be or Not to Be - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:00:17 -0400

"Carole Lombard plays the wife of a famous actor (Jack Benny) who does some ""acting"" of her own in To Be or Not to Be (1942)."

Video: The Song Writers' Revue - (A Short Subject)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:11:57 -0400

In The Song Writers' Revue (1929) Jack Benny introduces popular songwriters including Singin' In The Rain-penning Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown.

Video: Broadway Melody of 1936 - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:57:25 -0400

A Broadway columnist tries to use an innocent dancer to frame a producer in Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) starring Jack Benny & Eleanor Powell.

Video: To Be or Not to Be (1942) - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:08:30 -0400

"An infamous dictator appears on the streets of Warsaw in To Be or Not to Be (1942), Ernst Lubitsch's anti-Nazi satire starring Jack Benny and Carole Lombard."

Video: To Be or Not To Be - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:08:29 -0400

Polish actor Joseph Tura (Jack Benny) masquerades as an infamous Nazi officer in To Be or Not to Be (1942).

Video: The Horn Blows At Midnight - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:06:39 -0400

Jack Benny plays an angel sent to destroy the Earth with a trumpet blast in The Horn Blows At Midnight (1945).

Video: George Washington Slept Here - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:56:53 -0400

Jack Benny says goodbye to city life when he buys a Connecticut farmhouse in the movie version of the Kaufman and Hart play George Washington Slept Here (1942).

Video: Broadway Melody, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:31:47 -0400

The Broadway Melody of 1936 was designed as the first of many annual follow-ups to MGM's early-talkie triumph Broadway Melody (1929). Jack Benny is atypically cast as a Walter Winchell type who carries on a feud with Broadway producer Robert Taylor. Into this fray comes Taylor's childhood sweetheart Eleanor Powell, who wants to play a role in Taylor's upcoming production. Already under fire from Benny for exhibiting favoritism, Taylor says no. Powell gets into the show anyway, disguising herself as a celebrated Parisian stage star. The film's song highlights (one of them sung by Robert Taylor!) include I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling, Broadway Rhythm, and a holdover from the original Broadway Melody, You Are My Lucky Star. Spotlighted in several numbers is the song 'n' dance team of Buddy and Vilma Ebsen. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: To Be Or Not To Be

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:16:56 -0400

Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of comedienne Carole Lombard. In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) perform anti-Nazi plays with their theater troupe until they are forced to switch to Shakespeare's {+Hamlet}. Lt. Stanislav Sobinski (Robert Stack) falls for Maria and meets up with her during Joseph's famous To Be or Not to Be speech as Hamlet. When Stanislav is eventually dispatched for war, he implicates Maria with Professor Siletsky (Stanley Ridges), who has a secret plan to destroy the Warsaw resistance. The Polish theater troupe is then forced to use their theatrical skills to ensure their survival. Eventually, they turn to impersonating Nazi officers -- and even Hitler himself -- in order to outwit the enemy and keep the resistance safe from spies. To Be or Not to Be opened to a controversial release in 1942, when the U.S. was still very much involved in WWII. It was re

Video: Christmas With Jack Benny

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:03:22 -0400

Nothing rings in the New Year quite like a few hearty laughs, and in this release featuring comedy legend Jack Benny, comedy fans can find out just how hilarious the holidays can be. As Christmas draws near the notoriously stingy funnyman takes a trip to the department store with his good pal Rochester. After Benny's penny-pinching personality draws the ire of a difficult saleslady, a masked robber finds that making off like a bandit isn't as easy as he may have thought when an encounter with the quick-witted comic throws a wrench in his perfect plan. Later, when Benny's plans for New Year's Eve fall through, it's Rochester to the rescue to help kick off the New Year right. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide.

Video: Christmas With Jack Benny

CinemaNow — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:19:16 -0400

A comedy superstar who brought mirth to an audience of millions via radio and television performances

Video: Christmas With Jack Benny

CinemaNow — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:57:02 -0400

A comedy superstar who brought mirth to an audience of millions via radio and television performances

Video: Topper Returns

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:56:34 -0400

The third and final entry in Hal Roach's famed "Topper" trilogy may very well be the best of the lot. Returning for their third portrayal of Mr. and Mrs. Cosmo Topper, Roland Young and Billie Burke are consistently upstaged by a sparkling new addition to the "Topper" troupe, Jack Benny's famed manservant, the loveable and irascible Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. This time around there is a "new" ghostly presence in the shapely form of Joan Blondell, who is unceremoniously dispatched by a cloaked knife murderer in a case of mistaken identity. Naturally, Joan floats over to the Topper's quiet abode and nags Cosmo into investigating her death. Back they come to the spooky scene of the crime, where Topper is accused of the murder by a houseful of creeps headed by ghoulmeister George Zucco. And who else should be the lead detective on the case, but the uproarious Donald McBride of "Room Service" fame, thoroughly bungling everything in sight!

Video: The Jack Benny Show Liberace

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:11:58 -0400

Jack visits the home of Liberace, but even he isn't ready for the outrageous extravagance he sees there.

Video: The Jack Benny Show 4 AM

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:06:07 -0400

Jack Benny was a regular on his own radio program since 1932. He brought the program, with his underplayed humor, to TV along with his radio regulars. Jack, who remained 39-years-old, kept his money in his basement and drove his old Maxwell car just as he had done on the radio.

Video: The Jack Benny Show Humphrey Bogart

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:48:51 -0400

Video: The Jack Benny Show episode 4

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:27:06 -0400

Video: Topper Returns

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:19:44 -0400

Video: The Jack Benny Show episode 1

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:31:50 -0400