Cast: Jack Benny

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to meet in her dressing room during the play they are...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters

Synopsis 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...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Direction Roy Del Ruth · W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Jack Benny · Eleanor Powell · Robert Taylor · Una Merkel

Synopsis 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. Bert Keeler, a paper man, gets this...

Direction Richard Schickel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Gary Cooper · Ernest Hemingway · Sandra Shaw

Direction Malcolm Leo

Cast Brian Wilson · Dennis Wilson · Carl Wilson · Mike Love

Synopsis A biography of the American rock band The Beach Boys, with interviews, concert footage and clips from movies and television shows they appeared in.

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Jack Benny · Ida Lupino · Richard Arlen · Gail Patrick

Synopsis Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an advertising man trying to hold on to his biggest client, a silver company run by Alan Townshend...

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast John Garfield · Joan Leslie · Dane Clark · Robert Hutton

Synopsis Two soldiers on sick leave spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen before going back to active duty. With a little friendly help from John Garfield, Slim gets to kiss Joan Leslie, who he has been dreaming about while in...

Direction Charles Reisner

Cast Conrad Nagel · Buster Keaton · Jack Benny · John Gilbert

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Jack Benny · Priscilla Lane · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis 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...

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Jack Benny · Dorothy Lamour · Edward Arnold · Binnie Barnes

Synopsis Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend...

Direction Jean-Christophe Rosé

Cast Muhammad Ali · Max Baer · Jack Benny · Trevor Berbick

Synopsis The BBC produced “Kings of The Ring – History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990” celebrates boxing’s marquee division. Comprehensive and nonjudgmental, it begins with Jess Willard’s victory over Jack Johnson in Cuba and runs through the Mike Tyson era.

Direction Benjamin Stoloff

Cast Gene Raymond · Nancy Carroll · Jack Benny · Sydney Howard

Synopsis Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer...

Direction Ralph Levy · Seymour Berns · Ralph Nelson

Cast William Lundigan · Art Gilmore · Jack Benny · Mary Costa

Direction Irving Brecher

Cast Betty Hutton · Ralph Meeker · Robert Keith · Adele Jergens

Synopsis Blossom Seeley climbs to Broadway success with her partner Benny Fields, then retires to become his wife.

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Jack Benny · Joan Bennett · Mary Boland · Charley Grapewin

Synopsis Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds,...

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Jack Benny · Ellen Drew · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Andy Devine

Synopsis Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Jack Benny · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Mary Boland

Synopsis Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.

Direction Fred Smith · Roy E. Larsen

Cast Fred Allen · Jackson Beck · Bob Hope · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Synopsis To answer the title question, eighty-two of every 100 Americans were in 1947, according to the C.E. Hooper survey (the forerunner of the Neilsens)...listening to network radio, that is. Performers, and their radio programs, such as Jack Benny, Bob Hope,...

Direction Charles Reisner

Cast Jack Benny · Ted Healy · Una Merkel · Nat Pendleton

Synopsis 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.