Double Feature
Artists and Models (1937)
The head of an advertising agency, played by Jack Benny, is charged with choosing a queen for the yearly Artists and Models Ball in this fast-paced musical comedy directed by Raoul Walsh (High Sierra, They Drive by Night) and co-starring Ida Lupino in an early role. The score includes the Oscar-nominated song, “Whispers in the Dark,” and specialty numbers include comics Ben Blue and Judy Canova, Martha Raye and Louis Armstrong and the singing quartet, the Yacht Club Boys. (Universal)
- Director
- Raoul Walsh
- Writer
- Screen play by Walter De Leon and Francis Martin based on an adaptation by Eve Greene and Harlan Ware of a story by Sig Herzig and Gene Thackrey
- Starring
- Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Gail Patrick, Ben Blue, Judy Casanova, Yacht Club Boys, Louis Armstrong
- Year
- 1937
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 97 minutes
Buck Benny Rides Again
A rootin’, tootin’, shootin’ riot of gags and gals! Jack Benny, playing a version of himself, stars as a popular radio personality. But when his boasts of roughin’ it on his (non-existent) Nevada ranch get broadcast by his radio rival Fred Allen, he’ll be forced to play along with his ruse to prove his toughness. It’s a rollicking’, riotous spoof of Western cliches featuring characters and skits pulled from Benny’s own blockbuster radio program.
- Director
- Mark Sandrich
- Writer
- Screen Play by William Morrow and Edmund Beloin based on an adaptation by Zion Myers of a story by Arthur Stringer
- Starring
- Jack Benny, Virginia Dale, Lillian Cornell, Dennis Day, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Andy Devine, Ward Bond
- Year
- 1940
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 84 minutes