His first line: This is Jack Benny talking. 1932 On March 29, Benny appears on a fifteen-minute radio program hosted by Ed Sullivan. 1929 Benny signs a five-year contract at MGM Studios for $850 a week. His vaudeville show is now called "Jack Benny: Aristocrat of Humor." The Icon 1927 Jack Benny marries Sadie Marks Mary Livingstone of Vancouver on January 14 at the Clayton Hotel on Sheridan Road in Waukegan. He also changes his name for the last time to Jack Benny. Benny: Fiddle Funology." 1921 Benny eliminates most of the singing and music in his act and focuses more on comedy. 1919 After two years of service in the Navy, Benny creates a solo vaudeville act, "Ben K.
1917 Benny enlists in the Navy and is assigned to the Great Lakes Naval Station there he receives a small, yet very successful, role in The Great Lakes Revue," that launches his career in comedy. 1917 Benny returns to Waukegan to care for his ailing mother, who dies in November of that year. 1913 Benny teams up with Lyman Woods to form the duo "Bennie and Woods: From Grand Opera to Ragtime." Bennie and Woods have success during the next four years and they perform at the famous Palace Theatre in New York. Salisbury retires from the act one year later. Birth of a Showman 1912 Benjamin joins Cora Salisbury to form the vaudeville duo "Salisbury and Kubelsky: From Grand Opera to Ragtime." Due to a conflict with another performer with a similar last name, Benjamin changes his name to Ben K.
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1911 Following a visit to the Barrison Theatre by the Marx Brothers, Benjamin is offered an opportunity to tour with them for $7.50 a week plus room and board. 1910 At the ate of 16, Benjamin obtains a job playing the violin in the pit of the Barrison Theater in Waukegan and drops out of school. 1908 By age 14, Benjamin is playing in local dance bands as well as in his high school orchestra. 1907 Benjamin graduates from South School, then located on Liberty Street between Utica and Oak in Waukegan.
At 6 years of age, Benjamin receives a half-size violin for his birthday. 1900 Benjamin’s only sibling, his sister Florence, is born on September 12. The Kubelsky family live at various addresses in Waukegan during Benjamin’s childhood, including several years at 224 S. The Early Years 1894 Benjamin Kubelsky Jack Benny is born on February 14 at Mercy Hospital in Chicago, IL to Meyer and Emma Kubelsky of Waukegan, Illinois.
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