The creation of a circular Town Square ( now the site of a Frankie & Benny's restaurant ) has resulted in Hamilton receiving numerous town planning awards during the past decade.

Benny's friend Mike ( Joe Grifasi ) has his cinemaphile cousin Sam ( Johnny Depp ) staying with him.

The Big Finish series has re-started Benny's relationship with Jason, but it is strongly implied in The End of the World that he has been killed.

It has many well-known high street stores, including Morrisons Scottish flagship supermarket, several restaurants including Pizza Hut and Frankie & Benny's.

For Benny's costar, the studio and Lubitsch decided on Miriam Hopkins, whose career had been faltering in recent years.

Three years later, the controversial Benny's Video put Haneke's name on the map.

She eventually takes the body armour off for Benny's wedding in Happy Endings, never managing to put it back on and loses her gun in a river in Budapest.

*" Cut Up " comedy skit featuring William Haines ripping up Jack Benny's suit

Butler also teamed up again with Freberg and cartoon actress June Foray in a CBS radio series, The Stan Freberg Show, which ran from July to October 1957 as a summer replacement for Jack Benny's program.

An actress hired to play a part on the evening's show didn't show up and, instead of risking a hunt for a substitute, Benny thought his wife could handle the part: a character named " Mary Livingstone " scripted as Benny's biggest fan.

Livingstone soon enough displayed her own sharp wit and pinpoint comic timing, often used to puncture Benny's on-air ego, and she became a major part of the show, enough so that, giving in when she was addressed as " Mary Livingstone " often enough when out in public, she ended up changing her name legally to Mary Livingstone.

To Be or Not To Be, now regarded as one of the best films of Lubitsch's, Benny's and Lombard's careers, was initially not well received by the public, many of whom could not understand the notion of making fun out of such a real threat as the Nazis.

Benny's wife and son now live in a suburban Long Island town, and Zalmie testifies against Palumbo on television.

There is a new swimming pool which opened in early 2007 and a new Frankie & Benny's restaurant opened in early September 2006.

Some of his films feature a stereotypical bourgeois couple named Anna / Anne and Georg / Georges ( The Seventh Continent, Benny's Video, Funny Games, Code Unknown, Time of the Wolf, Caché, Funny Games US, Love ).

Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, also provided the voice for Benny the Ball in Top Cat ( Benny's rotund appearance was based on Gosfield too ).

Benny's side of the feud included a tart interpretation of Allen's Town Hall Tonight show, which Benny and company called " Clown Hall Tonight.

* Benny Goodman Septet ( released by Capitol Records as catalog number 20126, with the flip side " Benny's Boogie ")

Lucky Strike was also a sponsor of comedian Jack Benny's radio and TV show, The Jack Benny Show, which was also introduced as The Lucky Strike Program.

Harris's comic talent was already familiar through his tenure on The Jack Benny Show, where he played Benny's wisecracking, jive-talking, hipster bandleader.

Because the Harris show aired immediately after Benny's on a different network ( Harris and Faye were still on NBC, whereas Benny jumped his show to CBS in 1949 ), Harris would only appear during the first half of the Benny show ; he would then leave the CBS studio and walk approximately one block to his own studio down the street, arriving just in time for the start of his own program.

Revue also produced later seasons of The Jack Benny Program for CBS and NBC and in co-operation with Jack Benny's J and M productions Checkmate, General Electric Theater and Alfred Hitchcock Presents for CBS, Studio 57 for DuMont, and westerns such as Tales of Wells Fargo, The Restless Gun and Laramie for NBC, as well as Wagon Train for NBC and ABC, and the first two seasons of NBC's The Virginian, based on a film released originally by Paramount Pictures, whose pre-1950 theatrical sound feature film library was sold to MCA in 1957.

Prior to joining Benny on the radio, Crosby, who was based on the East Coast, would often play with Benny during Benny's live New York appearances, and he was seen frequently throughout the 1950s on Benny's television series.

Nelson first found fame as the put-upon foil to Jack Benny on Benny's radio show during the 1940s and 1950s.

After Benny murders a rival tagger in cold blood, he inexplicably disappears, and Benny's severely unstable tag partner, César, takes over as leader and class antagonist.

Humorously enough, the crew's diet consists mostly of cheese, which Svetlana hates and Benny is allergic to ( although Benny's allergies are not seen or discussed within the show.

His best-remembered radio role was that of Ed, the security guard for Jack Benny's underground money vault, on The Jack Benny Program.

The 2005 World Series of Poker was the first held outside of Binion's Horseshoe Casino, though the final few days of the main event were held in the legendary Benny's Bullpen.

The role had a legendary renown in former East Germany, and while many West Germans are unable to associate the name of the franchise with the Danish films, nearly all Eastern Germans can at least cite Benny's catchphrase " mächtig gewaltig, Egon " ( Danish " Skide godt, Egon!

Livingstone's honest, wisecracking style proved a perfect lancing of Benny's on-air persona as a vain skinflint, but she was still prone to occasional flubbed lines on the show, and many became as legendary as the deliberately crafted " illogical logic " of Gracie Allen or the cleverly scripted malapropisms of Jane Ace, or Gertrude Berg as Molly in The Goldbergs.

* Gorrister, who tells the history of AM for Benny's entertainment.

In Buzzy and Katnip, Katnip also had his share of running battles with Buzzy, a singing black crow in a flat straw hat, who spoke in stereotypical " black dialect " and had a voice reminiscent of Eddie Anderson, who played Rochester the valet on Jack Benny's program.

Bandleader Phil Harris, a longtime regular on Jack Benny's radio program and his wife Alice Faye, who became radio stars with their own comedy show in 1948, appeared in a Lux presentation.

Ethel Shutta ( pronounced " shoo-tay ") ( December 1, 1896 — February 5, 1976 ) was an American actress and singer, who came to prominence through her performances on Jack Benny's radio show, her role in the early Eddie Cantor musical Whoopee !, and her Broadway comeback in Follies at the age of 74.

Wilson finally found a lasting partnership with fourth wife, radio actress Lois Corbet ( who occasionally appeared as " Mrs. Wilson " on Benny's later radio and TV shows ).

Lynn Oliver had his recording studio sandwiched next to the New Yorker Bookshop and Benny's on 89th and B ' way.

She sang and danced with Milton Berle, whom she had known since childhood, and actor Gene Raymond, and appeared on Broadway in Jack Benny's Great Temptations.

Vocal harmonies were provided by The Sportsmen Quartet, from Jack Benny's radio program.

These met with great success-the Maxwell in particular was made famous by Jack Benny's radio show and around 1953, the original larger action toys were discontinued and Revell focused on the newer kits-with the Gowland hot air balloon logo still shown on the green, yellow or orange boxes ( Funding Universe webpage ).

Shows such as Jack Benny's Lucky Strike Program and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet emanated from Studio B. Lucille Ball's My Favorite Husband, Blondie, and Dr. Christian are a few of the shows that used Studio C. When B and C were built, the Columbia Playhouse then took the letter designation of " Studio A ".

Mary Livingstone underwent a change, too: from fan to tart secretary-foil ; the character occasionally went on dates with Benny's character but they were rarely implied to be truly romantically involved otherwise.