Mary livingstone benny biography

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Jack Benny: A Biography

February 11,

As any fan of Jack Benny will tell you, we are unlikely to see a man like him ever again. Easily the most beloved entertainer of the twentieth century, Jack knew everybody and everybody loved Jack. This is the second biography of Benny that I've read - the first being "Sunday Nights at Seven" by his daughter, Joan. This book, written by his wife and brother-in-law/producer, strikes a slightly different tone. As mentioned in other reviews, the book feels sanitized, not quite whitewashed but unequivocally more of a pasteurized, squeaky-clean thumbnail than an in-depth memoir. Most disappointing was how little was said of his friendships with those at the 'Hillcrest Round Table' (Burns, Jessel, Marx, Jolson, et al.) and while the first 2/3 of the book were pleasurable, the wheels certainly come off in the final pages with several chapters spiralling off into loosely connected anecdotes told by those who only knew Jack for a relatively brief time.

Don't get me wrong, I deeply loved this book as it is full of absorbing, delightful stories I had not read, or heard, before. If you can get your hands on a copy it'll be a hard book to put down!

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Mary Livingstone

American radio comedian and actress (–)

For other people with similar names, see Mary Livingstone (disambiguation).

Mary Livingstone (born Sadya Marcowitz,^[1]^[2]later known as Sadie Marks; June 25, ^[3] – June 30, ) was an American radio comedienne and actress. She was the wife and radio partner of comedian Jack Benny.

Enlisted casually to perform on her husband's program, she proved a talented comedian. But she also proved one of the rare performers to experience severe stage fright years after her career was established, so much so that she retired from show business completely, after two decades in the public eye, almost three decades before her death and at the height of her husband and partner's fame.

Early life

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Livingstone was born Sadya Marcowitz in Seattle, Washington, but raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her father, David Marcowitz (or Markowitz), was a prosperous Jewish scrap metal dealer^[3] from Romania. Her mother was Esther Wagner Marcowitz. They changed their surname to Marks several years after Sadya was born. Livingstone's brother, Hilliard Marks, was a radio and television producer who worked primarily for his future brother-in-law, Jack Benny.^[4]^[5]^[

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Mary Livingstone

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Early life

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