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by **shimp scrampi** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:01 pm

A silly little one:

by **Moose Hatrack** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:32 am

Mel?

Ol' Mel don't care.

by **shimp scrampi** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:30 am

Not Mel ...

by **JohnM** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:22 pm

Benny Rubin (because I thought I recognized him in this picture) or Fred Allen (because of his famous bags under his eyes).

by **shimp scrampi** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:51 pm

The second guess gets it ... who can forget of Jack's comments about those bags, they're about the only verbal blows he landed in the feud

by **shimp scrampi** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:18 pm

Maybe if Jack's accompanist had kept that job, he'd have stayed out of trouble...

by **Maxwell** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:56 pm

To me that looks more like Henny Youngman than Jack that Richard Nixon is accompanying.

by **shimp scrampi** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:07 pm

You're right Max, Jack DOES look like Henny Youngman in that shot, didn't even occur to me. I'd almost agree with you if it wasn't a well-documented 1959 event - original caption:

Richard Nixon Playing Piano and Jack Benny Playing Violin
Original caption: Comedian Jack Benny, with his violin, teams up with Vice President Richard M.Nixon at the piano at the annual President's Black Tie Ball of the National Press Club here tonight. Nixon and other Government officials joined the club in honoring Benny for his distinguished service to music in America. Benny was presented the Laurel Leaf Award of the American Composers Alliance.

Couple of other angles:

by **shimp scrampi** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:21 am

Anyone have a guess at the artist who painted this one?

by **Moose Hatrack** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:31 am

I'm sure about this one.. It's either Norman Krasna or Norman Rockwell.

by **shimp scrampi** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:19 am

Yep, Cover of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.

by **Maxwell** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:19 pm

shimp scrampi wrote:You're right Max, Jack DOES look like Henny Youngman in that shot, didn't even occur to me. I'd almost agree with you if it wasn't a well-documented 1959 event - original caption:

Richard Nixon Playing Piano and Jack Benny Playing Violin
Original caption: Comedian Jack Benny, with his violin, teams up with Vice President Richard M.Nixon at the piano at the annual President's Black Tie Ball of the National Press Club here tonight. Nixon and other Government officials joined the club in honoring Benny for his distinguished service to music in America. Benny was presented the Laurel Leaf Award of the American Composers Alliance.

Couple of other angles:

Jack even looks a little like Youngman in the top picture. I'm reminded of the time I was on vacation and staying overnight in Grand Island Nebraska. A man was seated in my line of site who from up front was the spitting image of my dad...until he turned his head.

by **shimp scrampi** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:02 pm

Not quite sure why the resemblance is there in those photos. I think Jack looks a little "puffy" in the face, maybe he was slightly ill, or maybe it's just being around Nixon!

Laura's got a shot of the two side by side in the photo gallery:

http://www.jackbenny.org/Pix/Television/specials/Rabin,%20Amsterdam,Youngman.htm

Should we start a "Benny or Henny" picture thread?

by **Brad from Georgia** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:33 pm

So...what ad-lib moment do these remind you of?

by **shimp scrampi** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:35 am

I think I have it from the first and last pictures, but the middle one is throwing me a little...

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