¡Classic TV Fun for Cinco de Mayo! (OR–They preempted Star Trek for this–!?) Originally Transmitted:12/01/1966 (Pre-recorded on 10/16/1966) A Jack Benny gem of cultural insignificance but a classic routine re-visited with Mel Blanc.
(they were doing this bit on radio as far back as the 1940’s)
Also:In addition to Mel Blanc, we have another long-time Jack Benny/Phil Harris foil here… Next to last— Fourth from the left….The infamous left-handed guitar player….. Yes, that’s the REAL Frank Remley in his last appearance… he would be gone the following month….(Jan. 28, 1967)
Eddie“Rochester”Andersonin one of a series of stills taken in conjunction with the Jack Bennyfilm; “Man About Town” (1939). It might have been a deleted dream sequence or musical number, as no such action takes place in the finished film…
Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, Peter Lawford, Robert F. Kennedy, Jack Benny, and Kirk Douglas at a benefit for Cedars-Sinai Hospital, 1961
