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Oscar Night (The Continental)

Oscar Night (The Continental)

This Day in Jack Benny · John Henderson

March 22, 202334m 1s

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Show Notes

March 24, 1952 - Jack and Mary attend the Academy Awards and Jack tries to sing his song.

References include the many celebrities at the Oscars - Host Danny Kaye, best actor nomonees Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire), Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun), Arthur Kennedy (Bright Victory), Fredric March (Death of a Salesman), and Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen) plus James Cagney, Lionel Barrymore, Edward G Robinson, Shelly Winters, Betty Davis, Irene Dunn, Joan Crawford, Gene Aurty, Charles Boyer and more.

They also mention the imfamous, short-lived TV show "The Continental".