Jack Benny Christmas Shopping 1943

[@Docpowjr]

Thank heavens KFI in Los Angeles preserve so much programming I’mForever indebted to them for that

[@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE]

bill powers Wish more stations would have!

[@goodnessandmercy]

I love Jack Benny shows! Thank you for posting.

[@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE]

Thanks RB

[@mikesdeadformats]

Thanks for posting these. Love listening to them at work.

[@fromthesidelines]

This was during the final season of the "GRAPE-NUTS PROGRAM" (General Foods, Jack's sponsor, replaced "Jell-O" with "Grape-Nuts" in the fall of 1942 because the shortage of sugar during World War II limited Jell-O's availability). The script is by Sam Perrin, Milt Josefsberg, George Balzer and John Tackaberry. Butterfly McQueen appears as "Butterfly"; John Brown [who had previously been a part of Fred Allen's cast] is "Mr. Brown"; Frank Nelson, of course, is "The Floorwalker"....

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Benny is the king

[@3nails3days1way]

Let's not forget Dennis Day is in it too! I really like his character, very funny.

[@Carthaginian60]

Wow, this must be at the dawn of Frank Nelson's character. Not nearly as exaggerated as it later became.

[@OTRHALLOWEENHOLIDAZE]

Carthaginian60 Good observation!