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Family life and death. Josefsberg and his wife Hilda had two sons, Steven and Alan. Alan had two children, Suzi and Dean. Josefberg's great grandchildren, Amber and Taylor Ellison (Suzi's) and Mason and Matthew Josefsberg (Dean's), live today in Southern California. Josefsberg died in Burbank, California.
In the classic episode, “Stretch Cunningham, Goodbye” (co-written by veteran Jewish humorist Milt Josefsberg), Archie is forced to come to terms with his anti-Semitism after agreeing to deliver a eulogy for his pal Stretch (a.k.a. Jerome), only to discover that his longtime co-worker at the loading dock was Jewish.
- Arie Kaplan
Opposite The Mysterious Traveler, The Jack Benny Program signed on live, coast-to-coast at 7PM from WEAF in New York and at 4PM from KFI in Los Angeles. By April of 1944, Benny’s writing team consisted of Sam Perrin, Milt Josefsberg, John Tackaberry, and this man, George Balzer.
The Milton Josefsberg Collection encompasses the years 1944-1986, with the bulk of the material dating from the mid ‘60s to the late ‘70s. In the mid 1970’s Josefsberg donated his collection of radio scripts for the Bob Hope Show (1938-43) and the Jack Benny Show (1943-54) to the American Heritage Center at the University of
Lucy the Crusader. When Lucy buys Craig a record player for his birthday it ends up not working right, so Lucy brings it back to the store but they won't accept it back which causes Lucy and other victims of the company's defective products to present their case in front of shareholders.
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- Comedy
- Herbert Kenwith
- 1970-10-12
Dec 16, 1987 · Comedy-writing wizard Milt Josefsberg, who created many of the most memorable lines uttered by Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Lucille Ball, died Monday at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank, where he...
Milt Josefsberg. Recorded September 04th, 1981 - 60 min. Writer for Jack Benny on both radio and TV, he also wrote for Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle and Danny Thomas.
