{"id":17931,"date":"2010-01-06T23:54:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T04:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17931"},"modified":"2015-01-17T20:51:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T01:51:03","slug":"did-jack-benny-have-an-uncredited-cameo-in-casablanca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/06\/did-jack-benny-have-an-uncredited-cameo-in-casablanca\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Jack Benny have an uncredited cameo in Casablanca<\/i>?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent entries of Roger Ebert’s Answer Man<\/i> column—on December 9<\/a> and December 23<\/a>—he tackled the rumor that Jack Benny had an uncredited cameo in Casablanca<\/i>. While addressing various claims, such as the fact that one Benny fan-site stated that the Casablanca<\/i> press kit verifies the fact, Ebert responded, “I think you’re right.”<\/p>\n

I’d never heard this before, and didn’t dig out my old VHS tape to check, but based on a few minutes searching online, I found a newspaper ad placed by a Florida theater that confirms this appearance—because it gave away a free pass to any theater patron who could spot Benny. <\/p>\n

Check out this ad below taken from the February 4, 1943 issue of the St. Petersburg, Florida Evening Independent<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ah, the wonders of the intertubes!<\/p>\n

\"JackBennyCasablanca\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So I guess it’s true! Who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent entries of Roger Ebert’s Answer Man column—on December 9 and December 23—he tackled the rumor that Jack Benny had an uncredited cameo in Casablanca. While addressing various claims, such as the fact that one Benny fan-site stated that the Casablanca press kit verifies the fact, Ebert responded, “I think you’re right.” I’d never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[605,604],"class_list":["post-17931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-casablanca","tag-jack-benny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17933,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931\/revisions\/17933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}