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Jack Benny

Screen Guild Theater · October 20, 1940 · 29 min · 4,460 words

The transcript of “Jack Benny”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast October 20, 1940. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Guild Theater plays Screen Guild Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Claudette Colbert, Edward Arnold, Basil Rathbone, Anne Slubertch, and maybe Jack Bennett. The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre. The director of the Star Zone Theatre, Rod your prior. Good evening everyone. On behalf of your neighborhood good gulp dealer and the gulp oil companies welcome to the Gulf Screen Guild Theatre.

For our guests tonight we have Claudette Colbert, Edward Arnold, Basil Rathbone and Anne Slubertch. for a film them outstanding personality well of course just a minute Roger I thought Jack Benny was supposed to be one of the guests here tonight Jack Benny well he was but but he got a little temperamental and hard to handle so say I wonder

could could he but he'd be mad at me no no but I know the real story well he could be you know I sent some photographers to his house but Benny likes to have his picture taken that's it they didn't take Benny's picture they took Carmichael's Benny's polar bear Well, you see the Gulf people were getting up a sign that said laugh at winter and they wanted Carmichael to pose for the picture of a big white polar bear on the side.

Well, that sounds okay to me. Jack insisted that they use pictures of him in the fur coat instead. Not Jack isn't the kind of a fellow to be grudgy of polar bear, little publicity. A little publicity. Why, you'll see that laughing white polar bear sign outside every Gulf station in the country.

And when you do see it, remember that winter is just around the corner and that right now is not a minute too soon to prepare for winter. for winter to change your motor oil for winter grade Gulf pride motor oil.

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