Actor, TV Personality (14-Feb-1894 — 26-Dec-1974)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Jack Benny; Joan Benny. Sunday Nights at Seven. New York: Warner Books. 1990. 302pp.

Mary Livingstone Benny; with Hilliard Marks; Marcia Borie. Jack Benny: A Biography. New York: Doubleday. 1978. 322pp. Written by Jacks's wife and her brother, with help.

Irving A. Fein. Jack Benny: An Intimate Biography. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1976. 319pp.

Milt Josefsberg. The Jack Benny Show: The Life and Times of America's Best-Loved Entertainer. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House. 1977. 496pp.

PARALLELS

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.119)

7. Random House Dictionary of World Biography (p.45)

8. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.63)

9. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.138)

10. Webster's American Biographies (p.90)

11. Cassell Companion to Cinema (p.52)

12. Quinlan's Illustrated Registry of Film Stars (p.48)

13. Chambers Film and TV Handbook (p.30)

14. The Encyclopedia of Hollywood (p.36)

15. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (p.72)

16. Les Brown's Encyclopedia of Television (p.55)

17. Celebrity Register 3rd Issue (p.41)

18. Who's Who in World Jewry 1965 (p.71)

19. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.56)

20. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.48)

21. The Encyclopedia of Television (vol.1, p.157)

22. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.1, pp.222-24)

23. The New York Times Encyclopedia of Television (p.38)

24. Legends in Their Own Time (p.22)

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