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Word: anders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hides Comedian Benny under a ten-gallon hat, takes him west to prove himself a he-man to attractive Ellen Drew. Otherwise it is just a Jack Benny radio program minus Mary Livingstone (Mrs. Jack Benny), and Benny addicts should find it just as entertaining. It has Rochester (Eddie Ander son), Benny's gravel-voiced, colored stooge; Carmichael (the polar bear); the disembodied voice of Fred Allen (whose mock feud with Benny weekly wows their camp followers); tunes, dances, a lot of fancy showmanship, girls and gags. People with a taste for deeper humor are cautioned that unlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mothers and He Men | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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