The best Jack Benny’s romance movies

Jack Benny

Jack Benny

14/02/1894- 26/12/1974
We present our ranking of the best Jack Benny’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jack Benny.

Without Reservations

Without Reservations
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/05/1946
  • Character: Jack Benny (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.

Hollywood Canteen

Hollywood Canteen
7/10
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

Who Was That Lady?

Who Was That Lady?
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/04/1960
  • Character: Mr. Cosgrove
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.

A Guide for the Married Man

A Guide for the Married Man
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1967
  • Character: Technical Adviser (Ollie 'Sweet Lips')
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.

Broadway Melody of 1936

Broadway Melody of 1936
6.7/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 20/09/1935
  • Character: Bert Keeler
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secretary certainly does. She and Irene must use their wits to show him what he's missing!

Children of Pleasure

Children of Pleasure
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 26/04/1930
  • Character: Radio Performer Jack (uncredited)
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

The Big Broadcast of 1937

The Big Broadcast of 1937
6/10
A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation. An interesting mixture of the stars whose fame continued to grow, those who became bit players in show business history, and those who have been forgotten entirely, except at the Internet Movie Database of course!

Somebody Loves Me

Somebody Loves Me
6.2/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 24/09/1952
  • Character: Jack Benny
Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.

Artists and Models Abroad

Artists and Models Abroad
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 20/12/1938
  • Character: Buck Boswell
Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.

The Medicine Man

The Medicine Man
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/06/1930
  • Character: Dr. John H. Harvey
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.

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