Sunday Nights At Seven: The Jack Benny Story

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Time to tune into "The Jack Benny Shown! From 1934 to 1965-on radio, and later TV-millions of Americans kept that date with Jack; and it always left them laughing. This sparkling memoir is the story of jack's life, told both in his own inimitable words and in the nostalgic reminiscences of his daughter, Joan. Using never-before-seen material from Jack's unfinished autobiography, SUNDAY NIGHTS AT SEVEN is packed with classic Benny comedy routines and entertaining anecdotes about everyone from Gary Grant to Marilyn Monroe to Harry Truman. The book reveals the real Jack Benny, tells what it was like to grow up as his daughter, and paints a glittering portrait of Hollywood during its heyday and the Golden Ages of radio and television. Most of all, it's having Jack in your home once again - this time, talking about his own life. Let him take you back to the good old days of vaudeville when, as a struggling violin-with-joke act, he first met the Marx Brothers. "They closed the show because nobody could follow them." Listen as he tells you about his audacious 1934 radio debut when "Jell-0, folks, this is Jack Benny" was heard on the NBC Blue network. His sponsors went into shock, but listeners bought jell-0 in record numbers, and Jack's star-and style-was born. SUNDAY NIGHTS AT SEVEN brings back the Jack Benny we remember so well: the deadpan, irascible cheapskate who played the violin (to everyone's dismay), insisted he was thirty-nine (to everyone's consternation), and fought a long-running battle of wits with Fred Allen that ended in an actual boxing match at Madison Square Garden. Jack's on-air character was so popular that most folks assumed it was the real thing - like the hatcheck girl who returned his ample tip, begging him to "leave me with some illusions." And SUNDAY NIGHTS AT SEVEN introduces you to the off-stage Jack Benny, a man who was generous to a fault. Throughout his career, he pampered his wife ("she's the only one I've ever had"), doted on his daughter and later his grandchildren - and was equally generous with new talent and lesser stars. Here is Jack, entertaining the troops with Ingrid Bergman, hobnobbing with Laurence Olivier, making movies with Carole Lombard. And here is Joan, growing up with the kids of Burns and Alien and Barbara Stanwyck. Featuring a hilarious foreword by Jack's lifelong chum George Burns, thirty-two pages of rare and wonderful photos, and remembrances by friends like Claudette Colbert and Ronald Reagan, SUNDAY NIGHTS AT SEVEN is a delightful journey into Hollywood's glamorous, star-studded past - and a visit from an old friend that will warm your heart and bring a smile to your face. AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD AND THE DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB - JOAN BENNY is a writer and lecturer on the history of humor in film. The mother of four, she resides in both New York City and Beverly Hills. From End Flap

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