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Article: BIOS, FROM SOFT TO INCISIVE.(Show)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 18, 1990
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"Sunday Nights At Seven: The Jack Benny Story." By Jack Benny and his daughter Joan. Warner Books. $19.95.
"He was a nice man," writes George Burns in the foreword to this book by and about his friend of 50 years, a sentiment readers will resoundingly agree with. When Jack Benny died at age 80 in 1974, he left this unpublished autobiography, to which his daughter adds family accounts.
Far more entertaining and moving is Jack Benny's related story, tracing how the onetime vaudeville trouper who left his native Waukegan, Ill., in his youth rose to stardom on radio, in TV and films. The secret of his tremendous appeal, he reveals - as though taking us into ...
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... ... and fund-raising chairwoman of the Jack Benny Statue Committee, Hank Bogdala, member ... 68th anniversary of his 39th birthday, Jack Benny was again the center of attention. Officials ... which was the primary sponsor of The Jack Benny Program in the early 1960s. The event ...
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