It offers a candid portrait of Benny, tells what it was like to grow up as his daughter, paints a glittering picture of both Hollywood in its heyday and the Golden Ages of radio and television… and brings Jack into your home once again. In going through Bennys effects, Joan discovered a strange bundle of papers that turned out to be a 400-page autobiography of the man who held American radio. 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 Cary Grant to Marilyn Monroe to Harry Truman. 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. Sunday Nights at Seven: The Jack Benny Story. It was the day when Jack Benny moved his Sunday evening show to CBS after 14 seasons on NBC. Now SUNDAY NIGHTS AT SEVEN introduces you to the offstage Jack, a man who was pleasant, decent, and generous to a fault. January 2, 1949, was the day that CBS began to hammer the final nail in NBC’s coffin as the leader in Network Radio popularity. Time to tune into „The Jack Benny Show!” From 1934 to 1965 – on radio, and later TV –millions of Americans kept that date with Jack and it always left them laughing! Over the years, Benny’s on-air personality-grumpy, self-satisfied, forever thirty-nine, and, above all else, cheap-was so popular that most folks assumed it was the real thing.
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