Jack Benny Calendar

Legend:
          Birthdays of guests
          Birthdays of cast
          Milestones of Jack's life and the program


| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

January
  1
  2
First Show For CBS (1949)
  3
Ray Milland (1907)
  4
Jane Wyman (1914)
  5
  6
Mr. Kitzel's debut (1946)

Loretta Young (1913)
  7
Butterfly McQueen (1911)
  8
'Drear Pooson' Fluff (1950)
  9
10
Benny/Allen feud starts (1937)

Gisele MacKenzie (1927)
11
12
13
Kay Francis (1899)
14
Mary Kelly (1894)
15
16
17
18
Danny Kaye (1913)
19
20
Jack is made mayor of Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga (1946)

George Burns (1896)
21
22
23
Humphrey Bogart (1899)
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Eddie Cantor (1892)

Cliff Nazaro (1904)

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

February
  1
  2
Charles J. Correll (1890)
  3
  4
  5
  6
  7
  8
  9
Ronald Colman (1891)
10
Larry Adler (1914)
11
12
Mel Blanc's debut (1939)
13
14
Jack Benny (1894)
15
16
17
18
19
20
Mike Romanoff (1890)
21
Ann Sheridan (1915)
22
Sheldon Leonard (1907)
23
24
Victor Moore (1876)
25
26
27
Joan Bennett (1910)
28
29
Dinah Shore (1916)

Dinah Shore (1916)

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

March
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5
Sam Hearn (1888)
  6
  7
  8
  9
10
11
Raoul Walsh (1887)
12
13
14
Phil Harris Returns (1943)
15
16
17
Jimmy Grier (1902)
18
19
Earl Warren (1891)
20
Ozzie Nelson (1906)
21
Mark Hellinger (1903)
22
Chico Marx (1887)
23
Joan Crawford (1905)
24
Thomas E. Dewey (1902)
25
26
27
Fletcher Markle (1921)
28
"Your Money or Your Life" routine. (1948)

Eddie Anderson's debut (1937)

Paul Whiteman (1890)
29
30
31

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

April
  1
  2
  3
George Jessel (1898)
  4
Frances Langford (1914)
  5
  6
Leo Robin (1900)
  7
Walter Winchell (1897)
  8
  9
10
11
12
13
Don Wilson's debut (1934)
14
15
16
17
18
19
Frank Fontaine (1920)
20
Gregory Ratoff (1897)
21
22
23
Dennis joins the Navy (1944)
24
25
26
27
28
Dunninger (1892)
29
Frank Parker (1903)
30

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

May
  1
Kate Smith (1909)
  2
Ed Sullivan Show, radio debut (1931)

First radio program (1932)

Bing Crosby (1904)
  3
  4
  5
Alice Faye (1915)

Freeman F. Gosden (1899)

Tyrone Power (1913)
  6
Orson Welles (1915)

Frank Nelson (1911)
  7
Gary Cooper (1901)
  8
  9
10
11
12
13
Joe Louis (1914)
14
15
16
17
Artie Auerbach (1903)
18
Frank Capra (1897)
19
20
Jimmy Stewart (1908)
21
First mention of Yhtapmas (1944)

Dennis Day (1918)
22
Radio Series ends (1955)
23
Herbert Marshall (1890)

Rosemary Clooney (1928)
24
25
Binnie Barnes (1903)
26
Al Jolson (1886)

Paul Lukas (1887)

Charles Winninger (1884)
27
Vincent Price (1911)
28
29
Bob Hope (1903)
30
Ben Bernie (1891)

Benny Goodman (1909)

Mel Blanc (1908)
31
Last Jell O show (1942)

Fred Allen (1894)

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

June
  1
Frank Nelson's debut (1934)

Frank Parker's debut (1933)
  2
  3
Tony Curtis (1925)
  4
Rosalind Russell (1907)

Richard Whorf (1906)
  5
  6
  7
  8
Alexis Smith (1921)
  9
10
Judy Garland (1922)
11
12
13
Basil Rathbone (1892)

Ralph Edwards (1913)
14
15
16
17
Dean Martin (1917)
18
Kay Kyser (1897)
19
20
21
22
23
Mary Livingston (1905)
24
Phil Harris (1904)
25
Peter Lind Hayes (1915)
26
Peter Lorre (1904)
27
28
29
30

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

July
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5
  6
Dorothy Kirsten (1910)
  7
  8
  9
H. V. Kaltenborn (1878)
10
11
Harry von Zell (1906)
12
13
14
Fred Allen's 1st show (1935)
15
16
Barbara Stanwyck (1907)

Percy Kilbride (1888)
17
Cass Daley (1915)
18
Harriet (Hilliard) Nelson (1909)

Red Skelton (1913)

Red Skelton (1913)
19
20
21
Kay Starr (1922)

Isaac Stern (1920)
22
Margaret Whiting (1924)
23
24
25
26
Charles Butterworth (1896)

Gracie Allen (1902)
27
Leo Durocher (1905)
28
29
William Powell (1892)
30
31

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

August
  1
  2
Jack Warner (1892)
  3
Marilyn Maxwell (1921)
  4
Abe Lyman (1897)

Louis Armstrong (1901)

William Keighly (1889)

Abe Lyman (1897)
  5
Robert Taylor (1911)
  6
Jack Kirkwood (1894)

Lucille Ball (1911)

Louella Parsons (1881)
  7
  8
  9
Charles Farrell (1901)
10
11
12
Marjorie Reynolds (1917)
13
14
15
16
17
Sam Goldwyn (1882)
18
19
20
21
22
23
Gene Kelly (1912)
24
25
Van Johnson (1916)

Bob Crosby (1913)
26
Phil Baker (1896)

Mark Sandrich (?) (1900)
27
28
29
Ingrid Bergman (1915)
30
Joan Blondell (1906)
31

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

September
  1
Don Wilson (1900)

Ed Beloin (1910)
  2
  3
Alan Ladd (1913)
  4
  5
Daryl F Zanuck (1902)

Kenny Delmar (1910)
  6
John Charles Thomas (1889)
  7
  8
  9
10
11
12
13
Claudette Colbert (1903)

Dick Haymes (1916)
14
Bob Crosby debut (1952)
15
16
Lauren Bacall (1924)

Andy Russell (1919)
17
Gabriel Heatter (1890)
18
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (1905)
19
20
21
Jane Ertel, Chordettes (1913)
22
James Kern (1909)
23
24
25
26
27
28
Ed SulIivan (1901)
29
Sportsmen Quartet debut (1946)

Greer Garson (1904)

Stanley Kramer (1913)

Virginia Bruce (1910)
30
Mabel & Gertrude debut (1945)

Deborah Kerr (1921)

Kenny Baker (1912)

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

October
  1
Lucky Strike sponsors (1944)
  2
Groucho Marx (1890)
  3
  4
Frank Fontain's debut (1934)

Grape Nuts Flakes sponsors (1942)

Phil Harris debut (1936)
  5
  6
  7
Andy Devine (1905)

Sarah Churchill (1914)

Ralph Rainger (1901)
  8
Dennis Day's debut (1939)
  9
10
11
12
13
14
Benita Hume (1906)
15
16
17
Rita Hayworth (1918)
18
19
20
"The Whistler" parody (1946)

Charles Fuqua, Ink Spots (1910)
21
Polly's debut (1945)
22
Mitzi Green (1920)
23
24
25
26
27
'Chiss Wheeze' Sandwich Fluff (1946)
28
First TV show (1960)
29
30
31

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

November
  1
  2
  3
Kenny Baker's debut (1935)

Bob Feller (1918)
  4
Bobby Breen (1927)
  5
Larry Stevens debut (1944)
  6
  7
  8
  9
Ed Wynn (1886)
10
Claude Rains (1889)
11
12
13
14
Dick Powell (1904)

Martha Tilton (1915)
15
16
17
18
19
Alan Young (1919)
20
21
Harpo Marx (1888)

Vivian Blaine (1921)
22
Hoagy Carmichael (1899)
23
Boris Karloff (1887)
24
25
26
27
28
29
30

| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |

December
  1
Mary Martin (1913)
  2
Ezra Stone (1917)
  3
'Grassreek' Fluff (1950)
  4
Deanna Durbin (1921)
  5
  6
Phil leaves for service (1942)
  7
  8
Don Ginsberg (1920)
  9
Ronald & Benita Colman debut (1945)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909)
10
Dorothy Lamour (1914)
11
12
Edward G Robinson (1893)

Frank Sinatra (1915)

Frank Sinatra (1915)
13
Andy Devine's debut (1936)
14
15
16
Jesse Block (1900)
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Robert Ripley (1893)
26
"Announcer of the Year" Don Wilson (1948)

Last Show For NBC (1948)

Richard Widmark (1914)
27
Oscar Levant (1906)
28
29
30
31


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