{"product_id":"the-jack-benny-program-radio-scripts-19321936-volume-2-hardback","title":"The Jack Benny Program Radio Scripts, 1932–1936, Volume 2 (hardback)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Volume Two of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJack Benny’s Lost Broadcasts\u003c\/em\u003e, (25 episodes from August 1 to October 26, 1932), Benny and scriptwriter Harry Conn continue to craft a personality-based radio variety program. They draw on Benny’s vaudeville style and explore new constructions of comedy characters and situations. Benny and Conn develop quirky-yet-likeable identities for the major performers — “Broadway Romeo” Jack, tightwad band leader George Olsen, sultry vocalist Ethel Shutta and flighty young fan Mary Livingstone from Plainfield, New Jersey. The cast bounces jokes, reactions and bad puns off each other. This series features experimentations — several political skits, a serious romance for Jack and Mary, and the program’s first film parody — then ends with a sudden twist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHighlights of Volume Two include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Nickel Back on the Bottle” becomes a nationally popular catch phrase\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMary’s first Labor Day poem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJack provides running commentary of a prize fight between “Battling Herbert Hoover” and “Fighting Franklin Roosevelt”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe cast performs their first parody of a popular movie, in “Grind Hotel”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese 25 hilarious radio scripts offer Jack Benny at his early creative best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKathryn Fuller-Seeley is the author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJack Benny and the Golden Age of Radio Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and books on early motion pictures and nickelodeon audiences. She teaches media history of the University of Texas at Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BearManor Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026480709831,"sku":"zeb1787291942018","price":33.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/7923\/3735\/files\/the-jack-benny-program-radio-scripts-19321936-volume-2-hardback_1.jpg?v=1787291947","url":"https:\/\/nextstylefashion.shop\/products\/the-jack-benny-program-radio-scripts-19321936-volume-2-hardback","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}