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Jack Benny
Jack Benny was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success as a violinist 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.
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entertainment · American comedic entertainer (1894–1974) · military officer · radio personality · violinist · television actor · film actor · television presenter · comedian · actor · vaudeville performer · military personnel · also Jack Benny, Benny
Born 14 February 1894 · Died 26 December 1974 · Q148732
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2026· 3 entries
Jamaica Observer: Music video and film director Benny Boom set for screenwriters workshop
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Public attention spiked: 4,443 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.9× the usual 756, with 0 article edits.
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2006· 1 entry
Fans petitioned for a Jack Benny stamp to honor his stage persona's perpetual age
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1991· 1 entry
As part of a booklet of stamps honoring comedians; however, the stamp was issued at the then-current rate of 29 cents
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1988· 1 entry
And the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1989
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1981· 1 entry
Hosted by Johnny Carson, George Burns, and Bob Hope on NBC
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1977· 1 entry
To recognize outstanding people in the field of comedy
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1974· 3 entries
Died 1974-12-26.
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As a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, during which he recreated several classic radio skits with Mel Blanc the day before his final television special aired
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Were a major influence on the sitcom genre
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1967· 1 entry
"Lucy Gets Jack Benny's account" where Lucy takes Jack on a tour of his new money vault
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1964· 2 entries
Citing Benny's lack of appeal to the younger demographic the network began courting, and he went to NBC, his original network, in the fall, only to be out-rated by CBS's Gomer Pyle, U
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Walt Disney was a guest, primarily to promote his production of Mary Poppins
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1960· 1 entry
Benny was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with three stars
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for The Jack Benny Program (1959).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Trustees Award (1958).
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1956· 2 entries
Benny said Ed Sullivan had invited him to guest on his program (1932), and "the agency for Canada Dry ginger ale heard me and offered me a job
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“the agency for Canada Dry ginger ale heard me and offered me a job.”
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1954· 1 entry
Benny co-hosted General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein with Groucho Marx and Mary Martin
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1953· 1 entry
Both Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart made their television debuts on Benny's program
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1952· 1 entry
Although he did make a guest appearance on the television show (Bob Crosby, Phil's "replacement", frequently appeared on television through 1956)
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1949· 1 entry
On local Los Angeles station KTTV, then a CBS affiliate, the network television version of The Jack Benny Program ran from October 28, 1950, to 1965, all but the last season on CBS
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1932· 4 entries
Broadcast on Mondays and Wednesdays on the NBC Blue Network, featuring George Olsen and his orchestra
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When the NBC Commercial Program Department auditioned him for the N
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After a four-week nightclub run, he was invited onto Ed Sullivan's radio program, uttering his first radio spiel "This is Jack Benny talking
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As a radio program and ended in 1965 as a television show, often regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy
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1929· 1 entry
Benny's agent, Sam Lyons, convinced Irving Thalberg, American film producer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to watch Benny at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles
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1922· 1 entry
Benny accompanied Zeppo Marx to a Passover Seder in Vancouver at the residence where he met 17-year-old Sadie Marks (whose family was friends with, but not related to, the Marx family)
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1918· 1 entry
To join the United States Navy during World War I, often entertaining fellow sailors with his violin playing
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1911· 1 entry
Began playing the violin in local vaudeville theaters for US$7
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1900· 1 entry
And he started taking violin lessons from Professor Harlow in Waukegan, who charged 50 cents per lesson
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1894· 2 entries
Born 1894-02-14.
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In Chicago, and grew up in nearby Waukegan
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