The Jack Benny Program - Irene Dunne and Vincent Price 2/4

[fromthesidelines]

At 5:25, Don Wilson delivers a rare "legitimate pitch" for the sponsor, instead of the usual "integrated comedy commercial" where he and/or The Sportsmen Quartet often turned up in the middle of the program to sell Luckies in a typical offbeat or humorous fashion...probably because this episode WAS one of the first filmed in the series, it was decided Wilson would stay "outside" the story and do a "straight" commercial (where could he turn up otherwise- meeting Jack on a street corner?).

[hwy61media]

LOL. I do like the integrated commercials better.

[fromthesidelines]

"The Horn Blows At Midnight" (1945), mentioned at 2:55, was Jack's last starring feature film. He kiddingly referred to it as "the picture that blew 'Taps' to my movie career", and over the years, his radio and TV writers often played up the "fact" that it was supposedly the worst movie EVER MADE. Actually, it wasn't {Jack played an angel sent to destroy the Earth with "Gabriel's trumpet", only he can't seem to finish the assignment}; Alexis Smith, Warner Bros. contract player, was his co-star.

[hwy61media]

I can picture Jack as an angel :) Maybe by this time he was too busy with television to make movies.