The Shooting of Dan McGrew

This Day in Jack Benny

English - January 25, 2023 08:18 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 363 ratings
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January 24, 1954 - After a look at the home life of Bob Crosby, Jack Benny and the gang dramatize the Robert W Service poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew".

References include "Santa Baby" by Ertha Kitt, the end of the Chlorophyll fad, and the game of Scrabble. Plus a Lucky Strike commercial by the poet Ogden Nash.