Dan Duryea?

[Mike]

can anybody tell me what is the 12-4-60 show with dan duryea about? per my "film noir" mssg on "other stuff" duryea has always been a favorite actor of mine. what is the "plotline" of the 12-4-60 show? btw, duryea also has a starring role in "the great flamarion" movie which was the basis of my "vaudeville question" posting on "other stuff". he was a good actor in some movies, (but not all of them), lol.

[Yhtapmys]

can anybody tell me what is the 12-4-60 show with dan duryea about? .

Sure. A radio reworking:

JACK BENNY PROGRAM
If the main skit on The Jack Benny Program bears a resemblance to 'The Killers' it's not accidental. Dan Duryea and Dennis Day play a pair of trenchcoated guys who menace host Benny, a lunchroom proprietor.
With Verna Felton, Benny Rubin, Colin Campbell, Don Wilson and Frank Nelson. A fun-filled hoodlum drama.

Pardon me dragging this away from your question, but I want to post some other clippings about Jack for that date that I spotted.

Mike and Elaine Show Wows Jack Benny
By HY GARDNER
New York
Jack Benny saw the Nichols & May hilarities twice in a row, first time he's encored a Broadway attraction, he says, since "Born Yesterday." . . .
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Comedy Moves From Air Waves to Records
[no by-line]
CARL REINER, comedian-writer-director, says radio comedy isn't dead—it has moved to records.
{snip}
"The established guys like Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Milton Berle don't bother with records. There isn't enough money in it for them to bother."
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Incident Won't Be Stilled
HOLLYWOOD (AP)—A few months after Eva Marie Saint stunned the annual Screen Producers guild dinner with that unsaintly 4-letter word, the blonde actress went to Israel.
{snip Israel story}
Eva is known for her ladylike behavior both on and off the screen. Friends say that, with the one exception, they've never known her to use naughty language.
Why, then, did she do so before the biggest names in the movie industry?
"I was embarrassed," she says. "Jack Benny meant no harm in giving me the flowery introduction he did, saying how nice I was, how ethereal. "I felt that no one but Joan of Arc could live up to such an introduction. It embarrassed me because I felt people were making fun of the way we live here.
"Maybe our home life is too normal, even dull by the usual move star standards but it's our own life— and my husband and I are happy with the life we lead. Happiness, I kept thinking, is more important than lurid headlines.
"Finally, I got so embarrassed that I just got up to the microphone and the word came out before I realized it. I'm sorry."
* * *
Job Is Andy Devine's Gift To Wife Upon Anniversary
By JOE FINNIGAN
UPI Hollywood Correspondent
{snip}
Andy starred for seven years in "Wild Bill Hickok," one of TV's most popular series.
{snip}
Andy credits the series with being one of the three major "bumps" that boosted his career. The first "Spirit of Notre Dame" and the second was his five year tenure on radio with Jack Benny.

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