Pictures of jack benny with adopted daughter

  • Jack and Mary adopted a daughter, Joan Benny.
  • Family portrait of American comedian Jack Benny, his wife, Mary Livingstone, and their teenage daughter Joan Benny, seated together in a living room.
  • In , Benny adopted Joan, which he described in his joint biography with his daughter, titled “Sunday Nights at Seven: The Jack Benny Story.”.

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    One of the casualties of the passage of time is the loss of great entertainers. And not necessarily because of death — an obvious inevitability — but just because of changing times, tastes and a lack of cultural connection from one generation to the next. There are countless examples of entertainers who spent decades on the top, but who, unfortunately, are little more than a footnote in history and completely unrecognizable to the youth of today. One of them was Jack Benny, the king of all media long before shock jock Howard Sternthought he had coined the phrase.

    He was born Benjamin Kubelsky on February 14, , in Chicago, Illinois, beginning his career on the stage as a violinist and made the transition to comedy during his years as a part of vaudeville — the grouping of separate, unrelated acts on the same bill that was enormously popular in America and Canada from the early s until the early s.  His star rapidly rising, he left the stage in to join the United States Navy during

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    Jack Benny’s daughter recalls growing up with the famous comedian: ‘He loved being famous’

    Jack Benny will always be “the nicest person” his daughter Joan Benny has ever known.

    The celebrated comic who brought laughter to America for 40 years passed away in at age 80 from cancer. Joan, 86, has vivid memories of the man she still “absolutely” adores.

    “He was a truly nice man,” she recently told Closer Weekly, “which is apparently rather unusual for comedians. Do you remember the name Abbe Lane? She was on the bill with my dad as an opening act and I got to know her. She said, ‘You know, your father was so unusual. I’ve worked with every comedian in the business and they are all totally insane, but your dad was the best.'"

    Joan, who was adopted by Benny and his wife, radio comedienne and actress Mary Livingstone, always knew her father was different from other dads.

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    Jack Benny had a little message at the end of his broadcasts when he was out of Los Angeles in the late &#;30s-early &#;40s.

    &#;Good night, Joanie,&#; he would say.

    It was a private recognition of his little daughter Joan, listening back home before being put to bed.

    Little Joanie passed away last Thursday, a week before her 87th birthday. She and her father both succumbed to pancreatic cancer.

    Joan grew up in the spotlight, with movie magazines running feature stories about the Benny family when she was a child. Her first wedding drew huge press attention, mainly because her father spent and spent and spent some more on it, in contrast to his radio character. She stood in for her mother in the end days of the radio episodes, and even appeared on the radio and TV shows. No doubt fans are rushing to video sharing sites, re-watching her and her dad on Password in the early &#;60s.

    She is probably best known as what they used to call an &#;authoress&#; by taking her father&#