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Mary Livingstone (born Sadya Marcowitz, [1] [2] later known as Sadie Marks; June 25, 1905 [3] – June 30, 1983) was an American radio comedienne and actress. She was the wife and radio partner of comedian Jack Benny.
Jack Benny (shown here shaking hands with Harry S. Truman from the seat of a c. 1908 Maxwell Roadster March 21, 1958) kept the Maxwell familiar in U.S. popular culture for half a century after the brand went out of business. Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, 1960
The new writers emphasized sitcom situations instead of the film parodies prevalent in earlier years. Also during this time, Hilliard Marks, the brother of Benny's wife, Mary Livingstone, became the show's full-time producer. In early 1944, Dennis Day enlisted in the Navy, not returning until 1946. He was temporarily replaced by tenor Larry ...
Stanwyck and her husband Robert Taylor were part of the inner social circle of Mary Livingstone and Jack Benny. She often appeared on Benny's radio program, sometimes in a parody of her own movies, and made her television debut on The Jack Benny Program weekly television show in 1952. [14]
Group photograph of Eddie Anderson, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Jack Benny, Don Wilson, and Mel Blanc. Two of Benny's gags that highlighted his image of a tightwad, were his Maxwell automobile, and the money vault beneath his home. The Maxwell sputtered and popped as either Benny or his valet Rochester drove it.
Jack Benny and Eddie Anderson disembark from a train in Los Angeles in 1943 with a camel.. Anderson's first appearance on The Jack Benny Program was on March 28, 1937. [9] [10] He was originally hired to play the one-time role of a redcap for a storyline in which the show traveled from Chicago to California by train, which coincided with the show's actual return to NBC's Radio City West in ...
Leah Bernstein, the former executive secretary to producer-director Stanley Kramer, has died of coronavirus-related complications at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s skilled nursing home ...
Mary Livingstone, who became well known as the wife of Jack Benny, appears in a small uncredited part as an usherette. Jackie Coogan and Betty Grable were married at the time they made this film together.