Gypsy (1962)

Actors: Rusty Wescoatt (actor), Herb Vigran (actor), Frank Sully (actor), Harry Shannon (actor), Jack Benny (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Harvey Korman (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), Ben Frommer (actor), Karl Malden (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Parley Baer (actor), Thomas E. Jackson (actor), Gail Bonney (actress), Dick Winslow (actor),

Plot: Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, ambition, audition, backstage, based-on-book, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-book, boy, burlesque
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical,
Taglines: Let this tuneful Broadway classic entertain you. The Magnificent Musical Where "Everything's Coming Up Roses." ...The Girl Who Became The Greatest Show In Show Business All The Heart and Happiness of The Broadway Play

Quotes:

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: You really would have been something, Mother.::Rose Hovick: Think so?::Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: If you had had someone to push you like I had.::Rose Hovick: If I could've been, I would've been. And that's show business.

Baby June: Hello, everybody. My name is June. What's yours?

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: [singing] Little cat, little cat, why do you look so blue? Did somebody paint you to look like that, or is it your birthday, too? Little lamb, little lamb, I wonder how old I am.

Rose Hovick: Here she is, boys! Here she is, world! Here's Rose!

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: I said, turn it off! Nobody laughs at me! Because I laugh first. At me! Me, from Seattle! Me, with no education. Me, with no talent, as you kept reminding me my whole life! Well, Mama look at me now. I'm a star! Look! Look how I live! Look at my friends! Look where I'm going! I'm not staying in burlesque! I'm moving, mabye up, maybe down! But wherever it is, I'm enjoying it. I'm having the time of my life! Because for the first time, it is my life! And I love it. I love every second of it! And I'll be damned if you're gonna take it away from me! I am Gypsy Rose Lee! And I love her! And if you don't, you can just clear out now!

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: [singing] Let me entertain you, Let me make you smile, Let me do a few tricks, Some old and then some new tricks, I'm very versatile, And if you're real good, I'll make you feel good, I want your spirits to climb, So let me entertain you, And we'll have a real good time; Yes, sir!, We'll have a real good time.

Rose Hovick: [on remarrying] After three husbands, it takes a lot of butter to get you back in the frying pan.

Rose Hovick: [singing] You'll be swell, you'll be great. Gonna have the whole world on a plate! Starting here, starting now. Honey, everything's coming up roses.

Rose Hovick: [contemplating an unneeded wig] You know, we could get a nice refund on this... if we'd ever paid for it.

Rose Hovick: You need something to remind you your goal was to be a great actress. Not a cheap stripper.::Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: My sister's the actress, mother. And I'm *not* a cheap stripper. I'm the highest-paid in the business.::Rose Hovick: You won't be ready for vaudeville when it comes back.::Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: No, I'll be *dead*.

Beau James (1957)

Actors: William Forrest (actor), Jimmy Durante (actor), Leonard Bremen (actor), James Flavin (actor), Larry J. Blake (actor), Paul Douglas (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Walter Catlett (actor), G. Pat Collins (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Russ Bender (actor), Sam Harris (actor),

Plot: The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s. Used by professional politicians and money-grabbers, Walker himself was "stupid but clean", although his open affair with Betty Compton cost him dear.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, actress, albany-new-york, audition, banquet, baseball, based-on-book, break-up, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city
Genres: Biography, Drama,
Taglines: The Story of Fabulous Jimmy Walker . . . Mayor of New York He took New York for its wildest joyride!

Screen Snapshots 2856: It Was Only Yesterday (1950)

Actors: Carole Landis (actress), Ralph Staub (producer), Ralph Staub (writer), Edgar Bergen (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), James Gleason (actor), Phil Harris (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Groucho Marx (actor), Alice Faye (actress), Ken Murray (actor), Roy Rogers (actor), Jerome Thoms (editor), Ralph Staub (actor), James Stewart (actor),

Plot: James Gleason drops by to visit Ralph Staub at the Columbia lot and Staub, as he was inclined to do, pulls out a few reels of World War II "Screen Snapshots", and he and Gleason reminisce about the footage, while the camera turns and, presto, yet another Screen Snapshots entry comprised of about 90% stock footage. This one shows movie-and-radio stars and names around Hollywood entertaining the troops at various California Army/Navy/Marine camps. Faces seen and voices heard (again) include Carole Landis, Groucho Marx and Jack Benny.

Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, actor, actress, american-flag, archive-footage, army-air-corps, army-base, broadcast, cigar-smoking
Genres: History, Short, War,

It's in the Bag! (1945)

Actors: Kernan Cripps (actor), Jerry Colonna (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Don Ameche (actor), Johnny Arthur (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Jack Baxley (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Steve Brodie (actor), Robert Benchley (actor), William Bendix (actor), John Carradine (actor), George Chandler (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Jay Eaton (actor),

Plot: Wealthy Frederick Trumble makes an eccentric new will, secretes much of his wealth in a chair, then, within seconds, is murdered. The new heir, Fred Floogle, runs a flea circus. Of course, the reputed $12 million inheritance goes to his family's heads...then proves to consist of five chairs, which the disgusted Floogle sells just before discovering their secret. Packed with wisecracks, strange cameos, and nothing-sacred, anything-goes digressions.

Keywords: 1940s, accent, antique-dealer, balcony, based-on-novel, bookie, brother-sister-relationship, butler, cameo-appearance, cigarette-smoking
Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

Eve Floogle: You mean last year's diamonds? Oh no, we don't bother with them. You see, we just throw them out. They get so shabby, you know.

Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Actors: Jonathan Hale (actor), Paul Henreid (actor), Jack Carson (actor), Richard Erdman (actor), Alan Hale (actor), Victor Francen (actor), John Garfield (actor), James Flavin (actor), Dane Clark (actor), Joe E. Brown (actor), Jack Benny (actor), John Dehner (actor), Eddie Cantor (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Robert Hutton (actor),

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 Joan Leslie, who he has been dreaming about while in the Pacific. He meets her later at the Farmer's Market. On the third night, Slim is the millionth man into the Canteen, earning him a date with Joan. Slim thinks he's been duped when she doesn't show up at his train. Slim's buddy Sergant dances with Joan Crawford. Canteen President Bette Davis praises the canteen and the war effort. Virtually everyone Warners could spare entertains.

Keywords: dancing-horse, hollywood, hollywood-sign, hollywoodland, horse, kiss, obsessed-fan, purple-heart, shore-leave, soldier
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: 62 Stars in Warners' Biggest Ever! Songs Galore!

Quotes:

Jane Wyman: I've been Reagan-ized!

[after unintentionally scaring away a marine sergeant]::Peter Lorre: [sadly] All I wanted to ask him is to join me in a cigarette!::Sydney Greenstreet: He didn't trust us, Peter.::Peter Lorre: No... and we are such gentle people!::Sydney Greenstreet: ...Are we?::Peter Lorre: [Backs away, frightened]

Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)

Actors: Edgar Dearing (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Ward Bond (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), James Burke (actor), George Barrows (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Monte Collins (actor), Andy Devine (actor),

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 his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.

Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, boast, bound-and-gagged, character-name-in-title, dude-ranch, nevada, new-york-city, rival, singer, sister-sister-relationship
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Western,
Taglines: SPRING'S NO. 1 LAUGH HIT...THE BEST OF THE BENNY'S! (original print ad - all caps) "Mr. Allen sho' do say funny things." - "Oh, shut up, Rochester." "Imagine that tenderfoot on a horse! If Benny ever gets on a jackass, you wouldn't know who's riding who!" Fred Allen's Voice.

Quotes:

[Jack is soaked]::Rochester: Is it rainin' outside?::Jack Benny: No, Rochester, I was eating a grapefruit and it got out of control.

Phil Harris: Going somewhere?::Jack Benny: Listen, Phil, there's a train leaving for the east tonight. I'm going to be on it if I have to sit on the engineer's lap.::Phil Harris: Well, we just got here. You know what Brenda said... this place grows on you.::Jack Benny: Well, it'll have to grow on somebody else!

[first lines]::Don Wilson: And now ladies and gentlemen, we bring you that rugged hero of the great outdoors, that strong silent sphynx of the prairie, that man among men where men are men... Jack Benny in Buck Benny Rides Again!

[last lines]::Rochester: Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

Love Thy Neighbor (1940)

Actors: Russell Hicks (actor), Walter Fenner (actor), Eddie Hall (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Jack Carson (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Frank Coghlan Jr. (actor), Richard Denning (actor), Dudley Dickerson (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Robert Homans (actor),

Plot: Jack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen and his sister Barbara are also en route to the dock to meet Barbara's daughter Mary, returning from a personal appearance tour in South America. Josephine is her maid. Their cars get involved in an accident and, in a bumping contest, Fred reduces Jack's old Maxwell to junk, and is taken to jail. Mary loses her dress in an accident and Jack offers to get her another one, but winds up being arrested for stealing. Barbara tells Mary that Fred is a nervous wreck because of Jack's continual slander of him on Jack's radio program. Jack hires the Merry Macs away from Fred and Fred decides to go to Miami for a rest. Jack decides to open his radio program from Miami. They meet, have another brawl, and end up in jail again. The two are in a motorboat accident where both are knocked unconscious and Mary, in an effort to end the feud, tells Fred that Jack saved his life. They have dinner together at Fred's apartment and Rochester, whom Fred has hired away from Jack, appears and the feud is on again.

Keywords: title-from-bible
Genres: Comedy, Musical,

Mr. Broadway (1933)

Actors: Bert Lahr (actor), Johnnie Walker (actor), Ed Sullivan (writer), Ernst Lubitsch (actor), Ed Sullivan (actor), Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom (actor), Lupe Velez (actress), Jack Benny (actor), William Desmond (actor), Jack Dempsey (actor), Jack Haley (actor), Ted Husing (actor), Tom Moore (actor), Edgar G. Ulmer (director), Ed Sullivan (writer),

Genres: Comedy,

A Broadway Romeo (1931)

Actors: Paul Girard Smith (writer), Jack Benny (actor), Tammany Young (actor), Mort Blumenstock (director), Estelle Brody (actress), Max E. Hayes (miscellaneous crew), Walter Wilson (actor), E.K. Nadel (writer),

Plot: While watching a friend's news stand, Jack meets and woos a lonely out-of-towner. When they read that his girl and her fiance are getting married, they decide to pair up.

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Quotes:

Jack Benny: Come on, now. I never get fresh... at first.

Cab Waiting (1931)

Actors: Norman Taurog (director), Jack Benny (actor), Paul Girard Smith (writer), Max E. Hayes (miscellaneous crew), Walter Wilson (actor), E.K. Nadel (writer), June O'Dea (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Quotes:

Jack Benny: You know, I got a black eye once for kissing the bride.::Miss Mills: Why, I thought it was customary to kiss the bride after the ceremony.::Jack Benny: Yeah, well, this was two years after.

Jack Benny: Say, your mother likes you, doesn't she, Gonky?::Algonquin Jones: Oh, yes, sir.::Jack Benny: Oh, so she's the one!