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The Jack Benny Collection
California
Starring: Jack
Benny, Doris Day, John Carradine,
& Ruth Hussey
This film was produced by Bank
of
America in 1954 and dramatizes the formation of the bank which started
in California in 1924, and follows its growth to becoming a major
player in the world financial system 50 yrs later. Some of Hollywood’s
major stars played the roles of those who built the bank. This film was
made for the board of directors of the bank by the stockholders of the
bank, and was never theatrically released.
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Classic TV Episodes of
Christmas
Past:
8 Holiday
Episodes From the Golden Age of TV
Robin Hood “ The
Christmas
Goose” – Richard Greene stars as the wiley Robin in this yuletide tale
in Sherwood Forest.
Annie Oakley “Santa Wears
a Gun” – Gail Davis stars as the famous woman rancher in this tale of a
very different Santa in the wild west town of Diablo.
Burns & Allen “Holiday
Show” – Gracie’s nieces arrive to spend the holiday w/ George &
Gracie.
Date With Angels “Santa’s
Helper” – Betty White helps an overly generous elderly department store
Santa.
Dragnet “The Big Baby
Jesus”
– Jack Webb is hot on the trail of a stolen Baby Jesus statue & a
surprise
happy ending.
Love That Bob “Grandpa’s
Christmas Visit”- Bob Cummings’ lively Grandpa drops in for some
yuletide
mischief.
Sherlock Holmes “The Case
of the Christmas Pudding” – Holmes & Watson deal w/ a vengeful
convict
on Christmas Eve.
The Jack Benny Show “
Christmas
w/ Jack” – Jack & the gang converge on an unsuspecting department
store
to do their holiday shopping w/ hilarious results.
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George Washington Slept Here
Starring: Jack Benny
& Ann
Sheridan
The Great American Broadcast
Starring: Jack
Benny, John Payne, Alice Faye
& Cesar Romero
After WWI two men go into
radio.
Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes
on,
after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up
to bring everyone back together.
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Starring: Jack Benny, Joan Crawford,
Conrad Nagel
Laurel & Hardy, Norma Shearer & Many More
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
This
feature has Singing, Dancing, Comedy, Drama & everything You could
Want!!! Nominated for Best Picture in 1929.
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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad
World
Starring:
Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters,
Sid Ceasar, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers,
Buddy Hackett, The Three Stooges, Joe E Brown, Jerry Lewis
Spencer Tracy, Jim Backus, Jimmy Durante & Many More
After a long prison sentence
Smiler
Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid
$350,000
from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in
view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan
gives
details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to
agree
on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.
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The Meanest Man in the World
Starring: Jack
Benny, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson,
Tor Johnson & Priscilla Lane
Compassionate small-town
lawyer
Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is
unsuccessful
until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a
ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he
could lose his fiancée.
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The Medicine Man
Starring: Jack
Benny & Betty Bronson
In this early Benny movie,
he's
a "Medicine Man" who comes into a small town with enormous fanfare,
peddling
his all-purpose "health tonic," in his wake, a long trail of empty
wallets
and broken hearts lay strewn.
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USO Christmas Show for the
US Troops Stationed Overseas - 1957
Starring: Jack
Benny, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope,
Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Kim Novak,
Milton Berle, Dinah Shore & Many More
With a personal introduction
by
President Eisenhower, the first of the joint USO/US
Government/Hollywood,
annual Christmas shows for the troops gets underway. A great number of
Hollywood’s biggest names putting on skits, standup, & musical
numbers
in an effort to say thanks to all the forces stationed overseas in
1957.
As Eisenhower states in the opening, this was shown only to these
troops
and no one else would see this. 1 reel was made for each overseas base.
This is a TRUE COLLECTOR’s ITEM!!! Hope & Berle give two hilarious
stand up routines, Stewart, Burns & Benny perform a comical musical
rendition of MOTHER, Bing sings White Christmas, and many other gems!!
( Please note that there is a 3
second jump in the tape during Bing’s number, this is due to the age of
the original print)
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