Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of situations, the "Bag" relies on gags for its laughs and suffers as a result. Even the hilarious antics of Fred Allen cannot relieve the monotony of joke after joke with humorous touches few and far between...
With a star-spangled dramatis personae including Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Moore, William Bendix, Jerry Colonna, and Robert Benchley, "It's in the Bag" sounds like a funnyman version of the Warner and MGM gargantuas, but is instead a movie version of the Texaco Star Theater, complete with Mrs. "No-o-o-o?" Noosbaum...
...Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Robert Benchley; TIME, April...
...summary: ab r h po a e Forte, 2b 5 1 2 2 0 0 Conlon, cf 5 1 2 1 0 0 Coppinger, 3b 5 0 1 1 2 0 Allen, 1f 4 1 1 1 0 0 Wallace, p 5 1 2 0 0 0 Closky, ss 5 2 1 2 1 0 Carleton, rf 4 1 1 1 0 0 Lackey, c 4 1 2 12 1 0 Crumrine, 1b 3 2 0 7 0 0 Lindewirth...
Jack Wallace's single to left with the bases loaded spearheaded the fifth inning, mopping up after Conlon, John Coppinger, and Mel Allen had loaded the sacks. The trio of runs punched across in the last three frames, scoring Allen, Ken Crumrine, and Arnie Closky, were all routine...