Mary Livingstone
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Grew up in Vancouver, B.C., where she graduated from King George High School. Claims to have first seen future husband and comedy partner Jack Benny perform at the city's famed Orpheum Theatre during the Vaudeville days. Benny toured extensively and played the Orpheum often before hitting it big in radio.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 25, 1905
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 30, 1983
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Mr. Broadway
Overview: Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-12
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The Mouse That Jack Built
Overview: In this spoof of "The Jack Benny Program", a mouse with Jack Benny's personality and poor violin playing ability lives, along with a mouse version of Benny's valet, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, in a hole in a wall of Jack Benny's own home. Jack the rodent takes a mouse version of 'Mary Livingstone (I)' out to dinner, and the two unwittingly walk right into the disguised mouth of an orange cat!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-03
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Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-16
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Three Of A Kind
Overview: Promotional short to advertise Charley's Aunt (1941)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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Buck Benny Rides Again
Overview: Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Show-Business at War
Overview: A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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Hollywood Goes to Town
Overview: This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-07
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This Way Please
Overview: A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and plots to break up her impending marriage.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-15
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Bright Moments
Overview: Jack Benny performs his violin, prompting the accompanying pianist to walk out. He then does a comedy sketch, interrupted by a daffy "Marie", in Vitaphone #2597.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-30
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Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
Overview: Fernand Gravey and Danielle Darrieux arrive in Hollywood; the Ritz Brothers achieve immortality, leaving their footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre; a premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre brings out Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Barbara Stanwyck, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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