Contents: The Jack Benny program / w Mel Blanc (1953) -- The Burns & Allen show / w George Burns, Gracie Allen, Frank Sinatra (1946) -- The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy show / w Edgar Bergen, Humphrey Bogart (1943).

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Radio Spirits, Inc. 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN OLD

Summary: In 1940, American was still staggering its way out of the Great Depression and war clouds were rolling in from Europe. In the early months of that year, the upcoming Presidential campaign spotlight turned to perhaps the unlikeliest but certainly the most entertaining, candidate of all. On February 28, 1940, Gracie Allen declared her pioneering female candidacy for President of the United States...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Radio Spirits Inc. 2008

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN ALL

Contents: Disc 1. Season 2, episode 12 (December 16, 1968) guest stars: Jack Benny, Rock Hudson, Guy Lombardo -- Season 5, episode 12 (December 13, 1971) guest stars: Carroll O'Connor, Bing Crosby, Janet Leigh -- Season 6, episode 13 (December 11, 1972) guest stars: Steve Lawrence, Steve Allen.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAU

Summary: Contains 35 episodes of classic television with Johnny Carson before he hosted the Tonight Show. Includes episodes from The Johnny Carson Show , Carson's Cellar, The Johnny Carson Morning Show, Who Do You Trust?, The Jack Benny Program, Bobby Darin and Friends, Frank Sinatra Timex Special, Timex All Star Comedy Show, Caesar's Hour, Colgate Comedy Hour, The Martha Raye Show, Shower of Stars,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BES

Contents: Disc 1. Fred Allen & Eddie Cantor -- Honolulu trip -- Humphrey Bogart -- Johnny Ray & Danny Thomas -- Ireane Dunne & Vincent Price --Liberace -- Jack dreams he's married to Mary -- Goldie, fields and glide -- George Burns and Gracie Allen show -- Road to Nairobi -- Jam session.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JAC

Summary: In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which would be very damaging to the Polish resistance and they must prevent it's being delivered to the Germans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TO

Summary: As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TO

Contents: Disc 1. Some Commodore highlights: Love is just around the corner Eddie Condon (3:03) -- Strange fruit Billie Holiday (3:10) -- A good man is hard to find pt. 1 (jam session) (4:25) -- (You're some) Pretty doll Fats Waller (with Eddie Condon) (2:49) -- (Back home in) Indiana Don Byas, Slam Stewart (5:13) -- At a Georgia camp meeting Sidney Bechet (3:13) -- A handful of stars: Way down yonder in...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ COM