Jack Benny Program: Jack Dreams He’s Married to Mary
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Jack falls asleep and dreams that he and Mary have been married for the past 21 years. However, in Jack's world, Mary is the one who goes to work and earns the money, while Jack stays home, cooks, cleans and remains 39 years old. Jack and Mary were married in real life, and their daughter, Joan, plays the part of their daughter in the show as well.
He always makes himself the butt of the jokes. His reactions are priceless.
Thank God we have these wonderful shows available to watch anytime we want.
I never tire of Jack's self centered, childish, cheap tv personality - its instant classic laughs. Love how he breaks the fourth wall- it's so natural. Ps Is that their real daughter in the skit? She's stunning! And good actress too.
Yes, she's their real daughter, Joan Naomi Benny!
I watch these old TV shows to escape the predictable fluff of our present day. I can remember when people were more friendly and less self-centered. This must’ve been a great time to be alive.
Thanks for sharing such gems.
The voice of the Polly was dubbed by Mel Blanc, voice of bugs Bunny and most of the Looney tunes voices!
Rochester's facial expressions are priceless.
Warm, clean , comforting Jack and all his fellow actors . They are the back bone of all that is decent and familiar of what comedy is. These are the people, the modern writers, actors and the whole entertainment industry should watch and re-learn.
Jack Benny RULES!
Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone (Sadie Marks) were actually married in Waukegan Illinois in 1927. It is Jack's hometown and mine also.
Jack taking the food off calvin plate after fiding out what his father did for a living😂😂😂😂😂😂 love jack benny
A little secret: *Jack Benny WAS married to Mary Livingstone. Her actual name was Sadie Markowitz.*
I absolutely loved Jack Benny. He was my all time favorite comedian. Of course that was a time when comedians were competent and really funny. The golden days of TV are past but many of these programs are available on UA-cam (and some TV stations).
It's really amazing how much Joanie looks like she's their biological daughter. If you didn't know she was adopted, you would never think so. Really beautiful girl and lovely too. An old friend of mine dated her for a while back in the 50s and later attended her wedding. He kept the invitation in his scrapbook. He had nothing but the nicest things to say about her and Jack... even his violin playing!
And just think! My little girl is going to be 86 this year. And she's still as beautiful as ever!
She looked exactly like the both of them I thought she really was their biological daughter very pretty
Joanie adored her father but she had a hard time with her mother. Mary was very strict with her.
Jack had a heart to heart talk with her, which helped the situation.
@@marybenny3087 - Sadly, we lost Joan to pancreatic cancer on June 10, 2021, just 7 days shy of her 87th birthday. She was a fantastic story teller, and adored her father, with whom she was very close.
@@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr I am aware. Oddly enough, Jack died the same way. :'(
I love this show and all the characters. Shows during this time were really clean and funny. Tv shows now are not fit for children or adults to watch. Where have we gone. So sad.......
Every generation says the same thing.
Isn't that 'Mrs. Ziffel', Barbara Pepper of Green Acres fame?
Good eye, Jeff.
This is my all time favorite episode since it had Joanie in it and the great Mel Blanc doing the voice of Polly
...and sandy becker doing the commercial !!!
Lucky Strike is the brand recommended by my doctor.
That was before all the studies were made about the I'll effects of nicotine (an addicting drug). The morons used to recommend smoking as being healthy!
Rochester looks so cozy in his bedroom.
Wow, their daughter was very beautiful. 😮
She was adopted.
Kelly Brown Yes, but she was very beautiful. 😉
Thank you for saying so. I agree! :-)
Mary Benny, You're very welcome. 👍😉❤
She did look exactly like the both of them if no one said anything about her being adopted no one would've known.
Joanie is a beauty indeed
RIP Joan Benny.
BROOKLYN NEW YORK, Jack Was a True Original King Of Comedy, i Watched All of These with my Father, I'm 42, i Wasn't Around For the Original Episode's, BuT i wish i was, Rest in Paradise, Thanks For All The Joy&Laughter
My first exposure to the show was on a cassette tape which came in a nastalgia series of old radio and TV programs includung George Burns and Gracie Allan, Dragnet and Abbot and Castello, "Who's on First" routine. I was overseas and the show's were not available.
Ever since I first heard these in the 1970's, I have been in love with these great old shows.
Dearest American people:. Thank you for being so funnny. These are great videos furca pandemic when people are so stressed. My neighbour has only gone out THREE times in six months. He looks ready to give birth. I go out every day in a mask, talk the other dog-walkers and pick up my paper on the way home. Nature is good for one's mental health. I wish I could give you-all a hug.
Loved Jack Benny show since a little girl, now a Grandmother I am looking at the shows again and reminising and enjoy in the horrible situation in the world. Thanks America and who posts these priceless shows. From Australia.
Jack Benny's longest-running sponsor, was the American Tobacco Company's Lucky Strike cigarettes, from 1944 to 1955, when the show was usually announced as The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny.
Jack was on radio and television for American Tobacco [Lucky Strike] from 1944 through 1959.
I met Jack Benny and he payed me a lovely compliment
Nice...
I am 80 now living Queretaro. Journals are nice. I loved these programs.
Waukegan..Jack Benny.
Praying for everyone
Love this silliness
He's the best!
Don't tell Jack, but Rochester was my favorite.
Joanie actually adored her father gave her mom a had time until Jack had a talk about her about respect.
Jack was actually an accomplished violinist
Where are you getting the gossip? Man.
That early TV make-up was so thick! Must have looked better on those early sets.
Special black and white make up. Same as in the old movies.
I heard tell there was strife in the Benny family. I didn't buy it!
Him and Rochester priceless!
was there a reason that on the show, jack and mary were not married?
mary didnt like doing the show once it went to tv
joan benny died last june of the same thing that killed her father...pancreatic cancer
eff cancer
I’m always a little surprised and amazed at the cigarette sponsors. I remember the first time I saw an I Love Lucy episode where they did a cigarette commercial. It was before my time so I found it shocking. How times have changed. Could you imagine if they tried that today. 😂 that would fly like a lead ballon. Anyway. Just started watching Jack Benny. So funny. Not sure why I haven’t watched them before, but I’m loving every episode. Thank you for uploading them.
Shawn Stone, not only would it fly like a lead balloon, it would be prosecuted. Advertising cigarettes on television and radio was banned in the 1970s, smokeless tobacco in the 1980s. Print and billboard advertising were banned by the tobacco settlement in the 1990s. Apparently, cigarettes manufacturers seek to find ways around advertising bans by creating online stealth campaigns that aren't easily traced back to them.
Eric Miller, the streets hv never been safer. Are you thinking of the safe fais of the Roaring 20's and the Depression or the days of "Rebel Without a Cause" in the 50s when teens were rebelling and juvenile delinquency was at an all-time high? Maybe the 40s, 50s or 60s when we were sending off teens and young men to be shot and blown up?
In terms of the nuclear family, nobody sat down and decided to get rid of the nuclear family. First, people vote with their feet. If people wanted nuclear families they'd create them. Second, nuclear families don't do well in a highly individualistic, capitalist society. They are not flexible enough to provide either their labor or capital where it is needed, and they require social supports (like education and child care) which are expensive and tax the fortunes of the rich or minimize their profits. Third, nuclear families being the norm was an historical anomaly that lasted less than a hundred years in the U.S. Humans have rarely organized themselves socially into nuclear families, but rather tribes.
I’ll grant you the “plain and simple.”
I was looking for a place to comment about the cigarette commercials . Watching the oeople light up and take a long drag is kind of like watching them put rattlesnakes in their pockets.
Here's a fun fact for you: Mary had it written into her contract that she could smoke Parliament cigarettes on the show, even when Jack's sponsor was Lucky Strike. She felt very strongly about that, lol. Also, she smoked 2-3 packs a day every day for decades! I don't think many people realize that.
Mary was his actual wife in real life.
Mary Livingston was a posh elegant woman , and despite their mother daughter conflicts Joan Benny is a posh elegant woman .
I've often thought Joan didn't get along with her mother for three reasons. One, Joan is a lot like Mary in personality. She doesn't have Mary's neurosis-induced quirks, but she's basically natured like Mary. People who are very much alike often clash. Two, whereas Jack was a pushover, Mary was a disciplinarian. She wasn't unreasonably strict, but no child likes authority. Like all kids, Joan wanted to do whatever she pleased and Mary wouldn't let her. Thus, in Joan's eyes, Jack was the "fun" parent and Mary... wasn't. Three, Joan was afraid Jack loved Mary more than he loved her. That wasn't true, of course, but she believed it was and over the years that lead to resentment on Joan's part. That's just my two cents.
@@shortybeck1948 Shorty I agree with you 100% . Although not biological they are alike . On the You Tube interview Joan talks about the academic success of her children. They got that discipline and drive from somewhere .
@@shortybeck1948 Sounds like Joan is the one with the problem, not her mother!
@@SR-iy4gg Absolutely.
@@shortybeck1948 When I read Joan's autobiography she complained that her parents should have sold the family home to her and her husband at a price they could afford. She was upset that they sold it at market value to another party in order to buy the upgrades on their next home that Mary wanted, Joan said she felt betrayed by Jack Benny. That left a negative impression of Joan in my mind,
Episode aired 7 February 1954
Thanks for that. I don't understand why no copyright dates are shown on these.
Hmm, that means it was 1 month to the day before Joan Benny was first married.
He had to chase all over town to find shaving cream with soap in it, hahaha.
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Jack Benny was such a Class Act, and his daughter is truly gorgeous. I don't like to say things negatively, but Mary was not nice to Jack. She took great advantage of him and his soft character and often criticized him when they were socializing in public with other celebrities of that era.
Slipping that ad in there as slick as any UA-camr integrating their ads into their content.. This was perfect.
I lol'd
It's hard to watch this ridiculous segregation. I love Rochester and Jack, but damn.
Not many husbands play an instrument at dinner time to try and be nice to their wives and children like a romantic gesture to show their natural love for their spouses! Be grateful ladies!
Mary was hilarious straight man!
Thank you, darling!
I noticed that this episode was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. It was Walt Disney's habit of smoking Lucky Strikes that led to his death in 1966.
For some reason, I want a Lucky Strike, and I don't smoke.
That's the power of advertising.
Did anyone write a book about the guy who played Rochester? He was a gem.
As far as I can tell, unfortunately no. His career was interesting, and he was a film star in his own right. From what I've read, Brother Anderson left behind quite a pile when he departed the scene. R.I.P. 'Rochester'. You and 'The Boss' are so missed.
Calvin is really bald for a teenager.
JB born in 1896, same year as George Burns so in his heyday in the 1950s he was already in his 50s/60s! Its weird His daughter Joan was born in 1934 making JB a dad almost at 40. Now that is crazy back in those days! Joan Benny still alive today at 84. George Burns had his son at 39 also. Given JB and GB were best friends, crazy they both had kids so late in life.
Jack was born in 1894.
@@marybenny3087 Yeah...February 14, 1894. Man, that guy is an absolute dummy!
Well Jack Benny and George Burns and Gracie Allen also adopted due to the fact they they didn't want to have kids due they will lose money when people like Gracie Allen would have needed to stay home for a couple of months.
The only solution was to adopt a kid and save all the trouble of childbirth and maternity leave.
Another famous celebrity to adopt a child was Walt Disney.
@@jtm726 Gracie was sterile and I never wanted to be pregnant.
@@marybenny3087 well according to George and Gracie documentary that's what they said and it is probably the truth.
Jack Benny and his wife Mary also didn't have a kid but adopted a daughter.
George rely on Gracie and if she was pregnant. She couldn't be on stage and wouldn't be allowed back for sometime.
Female actors were forbidden on becoming pregnant or even showing someone be pregnant.
Lucille ball was the first actress to tell their viewers that she was having a baby.
Anyways before that happened if a female was pregnant they were usually released from contract or told to stay home until the baby is born.
So that could be 9 months or more time given off to give birth and take care of her child.
George rely upon Gracie cause without her he has no act.
George was the straight man and wasn't a comedian as Gracie or others were.
RIP Jack Benny (1894-1974)😥😥
RIP Rochester Anderson (Rochester Van Jones on the show) 11/18/1905-2/28/77
What a great man he was. The episode where Jack met Rochester was partially true. They did meet while Rochester was working for the railroad as a porter.
Mary Livingston:. 6/26/1905-6/30/83
Their daughter Joan had a strained relationship with her mother but worshipped her dad. That's why this is one of my favorite episodes of TJBP
Doris Ziffel
By all accounts she was strange. And the story that he met her as she worked in a dept store was debunked. Their adopted daughter was a sweetheart who loved her father. He loved his family. He was charitable to the extreme. He gave and also raised millions for charity!!!
Mary was a well-meaning person with a good heart, she was just neurotic and a little quirky.
You know what's strange? Gossip.
I forgot to add that Mary actually did work for the May Company selling stockings/pantyhose. Jack and Mary didn't initially meet that way, but he did buy hose from her frequently, claiming it was for his girlfriend, in order to make time with her. Mary went on to to break a record in sales due to this, outselling everyone in the history of her department!
@@mortalclown3812It's also strange you debunk everything as gossip.
At the time of these commercials, the industry knew that smoking causes cancer.
The HORROR.
It was before the era of forced Social Engineering.
L.S./M.F.T. Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.
8:30 what Jack did when Rochester went to answer the door was a demonstration of a childhood game called leapfrog where kids jump over each other in one continuous game. There are no real winners or loseers in the game just he fun challenge to not break the rhythm.
Thanks, Jack! No one knew that.
Adapted from an October 1950 radio episode [in that version, Dennis played Joanie's boyfriend!].
21:03 = I know Jack's supposed to be playing his violin poorly, but for some reason I don't think he sounds that bad. But, maybe that's because he only got through the first few notes before everybody kept interrupting him.
And yes, I know what good violin playing sounds like. I'e heard Lindsey Sterling play.
Mel Blanc did the voce of the parat. He was anazing! He played many parts for Jack Benny. The most amazing thing was that he did the voices of all the famed Looney Toons characters. Gecwas known as "The man of 1,000 voices. It's a crying shame that he only got once salary for doing all this characters! It iscalso a shame that it took two years if hanging around the studio before they gave him a chance!
Mel Blanc was the most underpaid performer in Hollywood. He made pennies compared to them all, died broke. It is truly a shame and i'm glad you brought this up. So compare Jack Benny making a million a year to Mel Blanc making 5000 a year.
That’s how I came across these episodes of the Jack Benny show. I watched a bio on Mel Blanc. What an amazing talented man. I heard someone say and I agree that he should have 50 stars on the Hollywood walk of fame. One for every character he created. And yes, he should have died a very rich man for all the money he made and still is making for the Hollywood studios.
Harpoon_Bakery, I don't know where in the world you heard he died broke. That couldn't be further from the truth. Jack Benny paid everyone very high salaries, including Mel Blanc. His contract with Warner Bros. excluded anyone else from receiving credit for voice characterizations, which is why you never see Bea Benaderet credited on any of the many Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons on which she performed. Mel Blanc performed many, many voice roles very profitably to the end of his life - which ended because of a lifelong cigarette habit. He did very lucrative commercials for, amongst others, American Express. He and his son maintained a busy production company until his death which his son continues to run to this day.
@@harpoon_bakery162 Mel didn't do Elmer Fudd's voice.
@@bobbyfrancis8957 he did after the original voice actor died.
Whoever thought wallpaper was cute should have been tried criminally in federal court.
Apparently this is one of the early Jack Berry shows. When he first went on television I believe he was on once a month. Now you have to understand in the early days of TV they didn’t know how exactly to program television so you had programs that were 15 minutes long 10 minutes long 25 minutes long they didn’t have it worked out like they eventually did so Benny was on once a month rather than once a week. It’s fantastic to see his daughter here.
In 1950, Jack didn't want to do a weekly TV series because he was already on radio every week, didn't want to "burn himself out" by doing a weekly program on both mediums. He increased the number of TV episodes quite slowly- from four in the 1950-'51 season, to six in the 1951-'52 season, and eight in the 1952-'53 season. In the 1953-'54 season (when he appeared every three weeks on television), Jack did 14 episodes. Nine of them were presented "live", and five were produced on film {including this one}.
One of those filmed episodes- a parody of "Gaslight", with Barbara Stanwyck- was "held" from broadcast, due to an injunction MGM filed against Jack over the right to produce that episode. It was finally telecast in January 1959 [and only once].
@12:50 #lmao
Mary said Joanne was 17 and Jack said she was 19 but 19 year olds don't do homework.
Joan was playing a 17 year old, but Jack slipped up because she was 19 in real life! I think it's quite endearing.
@@shortybeck1948 Well, Mr. Beck, you know Mr. Benny was always bad when it came to telling the truth about ages.
Jack. It's a show.
Of course smoking is bad for you but im glad they show the ads because it irks the nanny state!
To me he looked like George washington.lol. And he talked alot,,,most men didn't talk much..so watching this seemed unreal compared to boring day to day life.
And he had the most soothing voice in the world.
One of the best
The English grammar back then was far far better than today. The use of adverbs eg normally instead of today the incorrect normal. What has happened the education in this country? I think in the 80's it took a nose dive under 8 years of the Reagan's failure to spend on education.
I agree concerning the grammar. You hit one of my pet peeves, the disappearance of "ly" adverbs. Now "You're dressed beautiful" and "You did that superb" are blatantly used and blatantly wrong. Plato said when a culture's dress and language decline, the culture declines. I disagree, though, that spending more money is the answer. We've spent out the wazoo on education. What Reagan needed to do was abolish the Carter instituted Dept. of Education as he said he would. No dice with Dems. But that Dept. is one of, if not THE worst in the government. Education should be a local issue, because once the federal government is involved, things are generally always worse.
@@mmjhcb amen
You should be more concerned with reasoning than grammar. Fifty states are unable to teach grammar without handouts from Uncle Sam? Nonsense. Blame it on a Me Generation that made virtues out of relaxed standards and heightened permissiveness. And they're still at it.
Gee whiz.......I thought it was Trump's fault .
Great fun comedy brought by a death stick cigarette
They're all long gone.
These shows were already off the air by the early 60s when I was still just a toddler.
It was still on till 1965.
Jack certainly knew how to treat women.
The pardot's voice was dubbed by none other than Nek Blanc, the man if a thousand voices. Be did the voices of about ALL the LOONEY TOONS chactors. He never got paid his worth. He was at least once character on just about EVERY JB episode!
parrot; Mel Blanc
Reading all your comments, Jack, maybe you should get an adult to proofread what you write before you post.
I liked Mary's dry wit.
26:00 Sandy Becker
The cigarette ads really seem out of place now, don't they? It took decades of work to finally ban tobacco ads. Just a few decades ago very few people would have thought twice about how awful these ads were. I remember Joe Camel cigarette billboard and magazine ads into the 1990s, which were primarily aimed at the youth market, though the tobacco industry claimed they weren't. Those were banned under the Master Tobacco Settlement around 1998, which has essentially banned all cigarette ads in the U.S., though apparently the tobacco industry now engages in online stealth campaigns that aren't easily linked back to them.
18:50- there is no more lady educate anymore because there are no more proper ladies anymore
Maybe they're just not proper around YOU?
When was the last time you held a door, pulled out a chair or stood up when a lady sits, or tipped your hat, bowed out kissed a lady's hand.
@@jackkircher1755 I'm a woman, so ...
I am old enough to remember Femininity, Ladies, Elegance, Romance,
and True Infatuation.
@17:44 LOL!!!! That's so funny!!!
Sandy Becker doing the Lucky Strike commercial
Watching from Philippines
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he was married to mary
aw they edited the best part
Great stuff
He walks like theda Berra! 😂
HAAA
I wanna marry Jack Benny but it's toooo late!
Well, your name IS Mary...
You made me laugh!
You can't have him, he's mine! ;-) He'd be flattered, though.
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Never heard a kind word about his wife.
Jack's wife started on the show to replace another actor and as such pretended to not be married to Jack. For some reason thy kept the pretense up. I have heard Jack speak off air about his marriage with her which was good but no really glowing praise that I can think of.
@@michaelwall4022 Mary the character was not married to Jack the character. In reality, their marriage was very public (at least in the radio years, maybe less so during the television years since Mary was seen less both professionally and personally) and very happy. Mary had a beautiful soul and was dearly loved and admired by those who knew her. I think she was often misunderstood by people who weren't as close to her. She was extremely neurotic, and perhaps her quirks were wrongly interpreted as character flaws or deliberate behaviors she could control.
Is that so?!
Ultimate product placement.....lucky strike vows!!!! Anyone under 50 even know what LSMFT stands for??
L.S./M.F.T. Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. So round, so firm, so fully packed. So free and easy on the draw. I'm seventy, Richard, so I recall all that advertising so well.
I do! According to my grandma, LSMFT = "Loose Strap Means Floppy Titty!" That was something they used to say when she was young, lol.
CHRIST is the only way to heaven and God's 🙏 kingdom 🙏❤️.
Benny had to sure be proud of being sponsored by a killer of men.
God, you're a moronic idiot! 🖕😠
D Sullivan, actually, many did know. In a few decades people will look back and wonder how we tolerated such proliferation and lose regulation of firearms. Like tobacco, it is all about making profits for corporations, even as people are killed daily by their product.
Harpoon_Bakery, the tobacco industry was a major sponsor of virtually every form of entertainment, including sports. The first sponsor of women's tennis in the 1970s was the tobacco industry, Virginia Slims, to help market their product to women by associating it with athletes.
@D Sullivan Is it really hard to figure that out? Smoking is putting nicotine and smoke into your body. Nobody told me that cake was not a vegetable, but I figured it out.
@J Hemphill he knew the science, why do you think he didn't smoke?
These shows are priceless. The stuff they spew out today is absolute junk.