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It’s in the Bag! (1945) Richard Wallace, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche
Wealthy Frederick Trumble makes an eccentric new will, secretes much Read More »
Man About Town (1939) Mark Sandrich, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold
Producer Bob Temple, who’s brought an American show to London Read More »
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936) Mitchell Leisen, Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen
A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930’s radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline Read More »
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) Raoul Walsh, Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran
Falling asleep during the Paradise Coffee (“The Coffee that Makes You Sleep”) Program Read More »
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) Roy Del Ruth, Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor
Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show, but he is short of money. He gets an offer of money by the young widow Lilian, if she can dance in his new show. Read More »
Buck Benny Rides Again (1940) Mark Sandrich, Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer Read More »
Artists and Models (1937) Raoul Walsh, Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen
Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) Read More »
Chasing Rainbows (1930) Charles Reisner, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. Read More »
To Be or Not to Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. Read More »
George Washington Slept Here (1942) William Keighley, Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn
Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill’s knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania Read More »
Charley’s Aunt (1941) Archie Mayo, Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Comedy, Romance
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley’s Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Read More »
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) Charles Reisner, Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Musical
Conrad Nagel, representing the Hollywood movie community, and Jack Benny, representing the Broadway stage community, act as the interlocutors of a musical comedy revue. Read More »
Love Thy Neighbor (1940) Mark Sandrich, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Mary Martin, Comedy, Musical
Jack Benny is preparing his New Year’s Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Read More »
It’s in the Air (1935) Charles Reisner, Jack Benny, Ted Healy, Una Merkel, Comedy, Sport
Calvin Churchill, a confidence-man, and his sidekick/stooge, “Clip” McGurk, are being pursued by an Internal Revenue agent, Henry Potke, for their failure to file an income-tax on the advice of a shyster lawyer. They are hiding out at the Desert Springs Hotel-Resort, where Calvin is working a scam by posing as a stratosphere-flyer who is looking at making Desert Springs the base of his operations. A rich airplane manufacturer sees a chance to get rid of a stratosphere balloon that he built for an unsuccessful expedition at a great loss. Calvin intends to take the money and run but his estranged wife, Alice, now a tennis instructor at the resort promises to come back to him if he will reform. Alas, reformation does not come easy for Calvin, especially when “Clip” is around, and Henry is closing in.
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