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With Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride. When Bill and Connie Fuller are forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment because of their pet dog, Connie purchases a dilapidated old Pennsylvania house where George Washington allegedly slept, and persuades Bill to renovate it.
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- Comedy
- William Keighley
- 1942-11-28
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George Washington Slept Here is a 1942 comedy film starring Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride, and Hattie McDaniel. It was based on the 1940 play of the same name by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, adapted by Everett Freeman, and was directed by William Keighley.
George S. Kauffman & Moss Hart's GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE was one of Broadway's most successful comedies of the early 1940s, a bright and witty tale with a slightly Americana tone that World War II audiences found particularly appealing.
Jack Benny launched a starring contract at Warner Bros. with George Washington Slept Here, the 1942 comic hit about a New York businessman stuck remodeling a dilapidated country estate that seems to have been built under the principles of Murphy's Law. The adaptation of the Broadway (and community theater) smash by George S. Kaufman and Moss ...
- William Keighley, Frank Heath
- Jack Benny
Connie Fuller (Ann Sheridan) surprises her stubborn husband, Bill (Jack Benny), by purchasing a dilapidated house in the countryside where George Washington was once rumored to have slept.
- Comedy
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Comedian Jack Benny and Anne Sheridan star with Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind) in a hilarious screen adaptation of the hit Broadway play George Washington Slept...
