Jack Benny Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A big fan of The Beatles growing up in the 60s, Seth Swirsky noticed that whenever he heard someone relating a story about themselves and The...

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.

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

Comedian Jack Benny has his butler, Rochester, call several of his celebrity friends over to the house. Benny introduces them to a Catholic priest,...

A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.

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...

The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.

A drunkard climbs a ladder into a bedroom in the wrong house and gets romantically involved with the woman who lives there.

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...

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...

When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health,...

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...

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...

College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.

A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he...

The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.