Cast: Jack Benny
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jack Benny. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
To Be or Not to Be
1942 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges
Plot 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...
8.5
34K votes
8.5
34K votes
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie · 154 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters
Plot 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...
6.8
5K votes
6.8
5K votes
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Documentary · 126 min. · United States
Direction Gene Kelly
Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney
Plot 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.
6.8
165 votes
6.8
165 votes
Broadway Melody of 1936
1935 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth · W.S. Van Dyke
Cast Jack Benny · Eleanor Powell · Robert Taylor · Una Merkel
Plot 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...
6.6
87 votes
6.6
87 votes
Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend
1989 · Documentary · 47 min. · United States
Direction Richard Schickel
Cast Clint Eastwood · Gary Cooper · Ernest Hemingway · Sandra Shaw
6.4
51 votes
6.4
51 votes
The Beach Boys: An American Band
1985 · Documentary · 103 min. · United States
Direction Malcolm Leo
Cast Brian Wilson · Dennis Wilson · Carl Wilson · Mike Love
Plot A biography of the American rock band The Beach Boys, with interviews, concert footage and clips from movies and television shows they appeared in.
6.2
24 votes
6.2
24 votes
Artists & Models
1937 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Jack Benny · Ida Lupino · Richard Arlen · Gail Patrick
Plot 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...
6.1
65 votes
6.1
65 votes
Hollywood Canteen
1944 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Delmer Daves
Cast John Garfield · Joan Leslie · Dane Clark · Robert Hutton
Plot 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...
5.5
45 votes
5.5
45 votes
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Charles Reisner
Cast Conrad Nagel · Buster Keaton · Jack Benny · John Gilbert
4.8
31 votes
4.8
31 votes
The Meanest Man in the World
1943 · Movie · 57 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast Jack Benny · Priscilla Lane · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Edmund Gwenn
Plot 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...
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Man About Town
1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Mark Sandrich
Cast Jack Benny · Dorothy Lamour · Edward Arnold · Binnie Barnes
Plot 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...
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Kings of the Ring
1995 · Documentary · 92 min. · United States
Direction Jean-Christophe Rosé
Cast Muhammad Ali · Max Baer · Jack Benny · Trevor Berbick
Plot 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...
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Benjamin Stoloff
Cast Gene Raymond · Nancy Carroll · Jack Benny · Sydney Howard
Plot 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...
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Shower of Stars (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Levy · Seymour Berns · Ralph Nelson
Cast William Lundigan · Art Gilmore · Jack Benny · Mary Costa
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Somebody Loves Me
1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Irving Brecher
Cast Betty Hutton · Ralph Meeker · Robert Keith · Adele Jergens
Plot Blossom Seeley climbs to Broadway success with her partner Benny Fields, then retires to become his wife.
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Artists and Models Abroad
1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Jack Benny · Joan Bennett · Mary Boland · Charley Grapewin
Plot 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...
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Buck Benny Rides Again
1940 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Mark Sandrich
Cast Jack Benny · Ellen Drew · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Andy Devine
Plot 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...
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College Holiday
1936 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Jack Benny · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Mary Boland
Plot 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.
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Is Everybody Listening? (S)
1947 · Documentary · 20 min. · United States
Direction Fred Smith · Roy E. Larsen
Cast Fred Allen · Jackson Beck · Bob Hope · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
Plot 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,...
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Charley's Aunt
1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Jack Benny · Kay Francis · James Ellison · Anne Baxter
Plot In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
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