The Jack Benny Program
1950
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5 days ago · Jack Benny or Dore Schary might say, "Kaplan, why do you hate unions so?" If Danny feels like doing Kaplan that night, he might be off on Kaplan for two hours. When he appeared at the London Palladium in 1948, he "roused the Royal family to laughter and was the first of many performers who have turned British variety into an American preserve."
6 days ago · The film was directed by H.C. Potter and produced by Dore Schary. It was a big commercial success and was well-received by audiences and critics alike. Cary Grant portrays the role of Jim Blandings, bringing his signature charm and comedic timing to the character.
May 14, 2024 · "One was a screenplay of Stefan Zweig's story, 'The Burning Secret,' which Calder Willingham and I wrote in the middle fifties, for Dore Schary at MGM, after I made 'The Killing.'
May 18, 2024 · May 18, 2024. Action movies. Film Battleground (1949) Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary pushed Battleground into the studio’s schedule against Louis Mayer’s protests. The movie was a hit, marking the decline of Mayer’s power. The film focuses on the battles of Bastogne and the Bulge in WWII, with James Whitmore stealing the show as ...
May 11, 2024 · Miss Ashley made her Broadway debut in Dore Schary's short-lived 1959 holiday drama, The Highest Tree, which featured Robert Redford in his first original role; TV, making her debut in an episode of the anthology series, “The Dupont Show of the Month,” “Heaven Can Wait” (not to be confused with the same-named Harry Segal play that ...
May 9, 2024 · Josh Pais is Dore Schary, a movie director, producer, and former head of MGM Studios. #
Apr 30, 2024 · In 1941, at the age of 17, Blair married Gene Kelly, whom she met at the Times Square nightclub Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe. (She recounts that it was through his intervention – and that of MGM head Dore Schary – that she was cast in the independently produced Marty.) Blair and Kelly were divorced in 1957.
