"I couldn't have dinner in bed it was full of dirty dishes" Omg I laughed out loud.

That was great. "Breakfast in bed, lunch in bed . . . I couldn't have dinner in bed, it was full of dirty dishes!"

Barbara Stanwyck, a true legend. Love her so much!!!

Ruby Stevens (stanwyck) developed a very refined raspy and sultry voice from her younger years.

You gotta love this woman, she’s fantastic...

I'm very impressed by Benny in this role. He does an amazing job channeling Charles Boyer.

They don’t make them like this anymore. Barbara Stanwyck is such an amazing actress and Jack Benny is one of the best comedians of our time. I was definitely born in the wrong era.

Barbara S.......always completely convincing....brilliant.

I was a month old when this aired, .

Wonderful thanks

They were good friends and wonderful talents. Love them both.

This Benny episode was from 1959 and Babs was still beautiful....

I love how Benny evokes laughter just by appearing with that deadpan face.🤣 Could anybody else do that?

Thank you a hundred times over. I saw this on tv 100 years ago and could not track it down. What a pleasure and a delight to see 2 of my favorites in the same show together. Thanks again! It truly is a wonderful gift.

I want to add my thanks for the great posting Jack Benny is hilarious in his take off on the Charles Boyer character and Stanwyck could play comedy when she wanted to I did not realize they did a second version - the Museum of Broadcasting has the original with Ray Noble as the inspector and Rochester was not the butler That original caused Benny no end of trouble since MGM claimed although a parody it was a "remake"...This version has the advantage of your being able to see what is going on The original version seems to have faded

Stanwyck is actually laughing at herself here. Ingrid Bergman beat her to the Oscar for Gaslight.

Great to see two seasoned veterans like Benny and Miss Stanwyck perform together. Check out the video from "The Jack Benny Program" that features Jack with Irene Dunne, circa 1953. Also very funny!

Thank You! Thank You! I LOVE THIS, I saw the movie Gas light and I understand this more now !!! Barbara played it BEST !!!!!

Love the spotlight bit at the end

Barbara Stanwyck. Damn. Good. Actress.

This is from the 2 seasons (1957-59) when Jack Benny & BACHELOR FATHER shared the post-LASSIE pre-Ed Sullivan time slot of 7:30 PM ET. Starting fall 1959 DENNIS THE MENACE took over the time period for 4 seasons.

Stanwyck was a funny lady! Thanks for posting this gem.

Thanks for posting this. Stanwyck was wonderful with comedy, something her contemporaries Bette Davis & Joan Crawford had very little talent for.

I crack up when she says about the pineapple upside down cake the dhow is too funny. Thanks you dearly for shearing this video with us xxx

Jack usually riffed around the script, but he was on his best behavior with an actress of Stanwyck's stature. OTOH he or the writers parcel out the laugh lines less equitably than usual. But it is good to be reminded that Jack could stick to a character, as he had done so superbly in 'To Be or Not to Be' opposite another formidable lady, Carole Lombard. Indeed his parody of Charles Boyer is not unlike Joseph Tura.

This was Stanwyck's first TV appearance, and she must have been very happy to be offered a good comedy script after years of lame ones. She had been on Jack's radio show 3 or 4 times before this.

It took me a while to understand that it was a parody of Gaslight

For those who don't know, the girl who randomly cartwheels across the set near the middle of the sketch was a running gag from earlier in the show.

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Darn if Jack dosen't look a little like Charles Boyer in this skit.

This sketch was derived from an old movie titled Gaslight which can be seen on youtube also.

6:58- a running gag during the episode, as Jack promised "an old friend from Waukegan" he'd put his daughter- an acrobatic dancer- on his show. This was the *second* time she tumbled across the stage.

It was filmed in June 1953, but initially kept off TV because of an injunction filed by MGM against Jack for filming his parody of "Gaslight" without their permission. The Supreme Court finally ruled in favor of MGM in 1958- but they allowed Jack to present the episode only once {with a token fee of $1000} on January 11, 1959.

Outstanding comedy!

Funny parody of Gaslight 😄

From The Jack Benny Program, Season 9, Episode 9, first broadcast on 11 January, 1959.

Thanks so much! I never thought I'd see this.

Rochester is like the anti-Jeeves and is hilarious as the butler

Rip Jack Benny

tha ks for posting this.

great to see this. it was not on the "lost episodes" dvd.

Jack Benny kind of looks like Charles Boyer.

YES! I ENJOYED THIS !!!!!

10:12 Does anyone 'get' the gag about Little Rock ?? I assume it's a topical reference whose relevance has been lost in time. On its own it doesn't make any sense, but it gets a laugh - - - must have made sense to the audience at the time (uhhh... 60 years ago!!).

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What did the joke mean about the one dimension kiss?

gerry wilson thank you florence misunderstood title at first did dr kildare project and missy as you call her was the first to appear in a dr kildare movie

Should I pour the sour cream...

anyone know what year this was broadcast?

This is based on "Gaslight"

Have you seen the one with the dilettante and the actress- well, this is it.

haha Barbara Stanwyck was parodying a dramatic role... = ) while Jack was parodying a villainous role.

Jack Benny was doing Saturday night live long long long ago....

1952.

I WAS WONDERING WHAT YEAR THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN? THANKS IF ANYONE KNOWS THIS.

It's a shame about the bad section.

I suppose this is the parody of the film named "Gaslight" played by Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. However Barbara is quite natural in her role in imitating Ingrid. But Jack Benny is not of the similar qualities of Charles Boyer. I watched and adored the film.

Funny. The battle of the over-actors.

Barbara and ex husband Robert Taylor were good friends with the Benny’s. I didn’t particularly care for Barbara’s parody portrayal of the character. Barbara had a tendency to yell yell rush rush through a scene that calls for subtly. Subtle can be funny too. It would have been hilarious if Barbara would have shown the audience that her character was slowly being driven crazy. She acted hysterical , hysterical isn’t funny . I caught on what the story was about parodying Gaslight when Jack Benny walked in looking like Charles Boyer. (I missed Dons Wilson’s introduction) Barbara’s shown can be funny the lady Eve, for example. Yes, it’s television a half hour show but that’s no excuse. I adore BS, but she definitely was off her game and the overacting. It was like watching rehearsals for a school play. Quite disappointing. My only criticism of BS acting ever. It was a treat watching BS and JB together on screen!!

Odd sketch, although funny at moments. Stanwyck played comedy brilliantly in films, but here she overplays things a bit. I don't think she and Benny had much chemistry. Again, an oddity, but fun to watch.

I actually didn’t like this one.