mr. ace and JANE

About this film

Short-lived update of the original Easy Aces comedy---this time, expanded to a half-hour, with music, live audience, and studio band. (The audition episode, "Paul Tries to Borrow Two Hundred Dollars," featured only an accompanying pianist and no studio audience.) Some of the storylines were adapted from the earlier Easy Aces (most notably, "Jury Duty," "Quiz Show," and part of the audition episode. (This episode was subsequently reworked into two individual episodes, one of which is missing from this set.) Goodman and Jane Ace reprised themselves, with Ace now in the advertising business (he was formerly in the real estate business) and taking little barbs at radio advertising and other subjects contiguous to the medium. Jane's brother Johnny has been replaced by another shiftless brother, Paul (Leon Janney); Ace's new boss, the cliche-carrying Mr. Norris (Eric Dressler), is heard prominently, as is Ace's new and mostly incompetent secretary Sally Anderson (Florence Robinson). Ken Roberts---who played adult orphan Cokie in Easy Aces---appears as himself and also serves as the new show's announcer. Sponsored originally by the U.S. Army and Air Force Recruiting Service, the sponsorsh…

Subjects

mr. ace and JANE; old-time radio; comedy; satire; Goodman Ace; Jane Ace

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