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

While Jack is getting a haircut he reads in the newspaper that Irene Dunne is making a new movie and Vincent Price will be the leading man. Jack remarks that he just had lunch with director Gregory Ratoff last week and the subject never came up.

Jack decides that he wants Price's role and pays Mr. Ratoff a visit. Mr. Ratoff is stunned at the thought of Jack taking Price's role and makes that clear to Jack. Jack is not to be deterred easily however and calls Irene Dunne to try to persuade her to give him the role. He finally cajoles his way into attending a rehearsal at Miss Dunne's house that night.

Jack arrives at Miss Dunne's house and receives a chilly reception from Vincent Price as well as Dunne and Ratoff. During the rehearsal, Jack does everything he can to create distractions as Dunne and Price read their lines. In fact, he does this so well that the whole project can only have one ending.

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[hwy61media]

LOL. I do like the integrated commercials better.

[hwy61media]

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

[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?).

[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.