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Jack Benny: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Benjamin Kubelsky
Born February 14, 1894 • Chicago • Illinois
Died December 26, 1974 (aged 80) • Beverly Hills • California

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Jack Benny, dressed in a tuxedo, stands conducting with a baton in hand amid music stands in a scene from the 1936 film College Holiday.
Jack Benny, center, and Carole Lombard, center right, with a group of actors in period costumes gathered around a spiral staircase in a scene from the film To Be or Not to Be (1942).
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