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Word: jessel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Culmination came with the 800-place banquet, held like most Hollywood shindigs in the Biltmore Hotel Bowl. NBC played host. Master of Ceremonies Rudy Vallee presented Comedians Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Fibber McGee & Molly (Jim and Marion Jordan), Bergen & McCarthy, George Jessel. He called upon NBC's President Niles Trammell, who ended by giving Benny two gold keys that would unlock any door in NBC's Manhattan or Hollywood headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: All Hail to Jack Benny! | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...been turning out for the last five years right here in our own Hollywood; just as clever, but not quite so insinuating; just as lavish in its sets, but definitely not so well supplied with feminine appeal. It's about a young girl who marries a French George Jessel, and the plot deals with his futile attempts to do what in legal terms is known as consummating the marriage. This sounds intriguing, but the trouble is he never succeeds; and the picture ends just as his son is about to succeed for him. Danielle Darrieux may be the Frenchman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/20/1941 | See Source »

...will be able to give play-by-play accounts of basket-ball games and swimming meets held in the Indoor Athletic Building. What is more they may be the men to interview such stars as Ann Corio and Ella Logan and such prominent figures as Andre Maurois and George Jessel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Network Competition Will Begin Tonight | 2/5/1941 | See Source »

...Become a Master of Ceremonies: George Jessel lecturing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK | 2/4/1941 | See Source »

...Showgirl Lois Andrew Jessel, 16, four-month wife of thrice-married Stagester George Jessel, 42, planned a family of five or six children: "We won't have our first for a year, not until we get to know each other really. We're in love, deeply in love, but we need to get acquainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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