Jack Benny: The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny---1939

About this film

The complete surviving 1939 broadcasts, from original recordings of the program as it went on the air live, without modern remastering or reconditioning. There will be occasional flaws in the recordings but there are few flaws in the performances of Jack Benny and company, who were, by now, long enough established as masters of comic timing. Cast: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson (Rochester), Kenny Baker through 18 June, Dennis Day as of 8 October, Don Wilson (announcer). Music: Don Bestor, Mahlon Merrick, Phil Harris Orchestra (Merrick actually conducted the orchestra and did most of the arrangements, freeing Harris to assume his character as a wisecracking, playboy-like bandleading wastrel who could have been tried by jury for murdering the King's English), Kenny Baker (succeeded by Day). Writers: Bill Morrow, Ed Beloin.

Subjects

Jack Benny; Jell-O; old-time radio; comedy; Mary Livingstone; Phil Harris; Don Wilson; Kenny Baker; Dennis Day

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