George Burns and Jack Benny were best friends for more than 50 years. In ”Sunday Nights at Seven” (Warner), by Jack`s daughter, Joan Benny, Burns insists that Benny, contrary to his widely ...

Bob Hope was the wisecracker. Milton Berle was a clown. George Burns and Gracie Allen were farceurs of domestic life. And Jack Benny was the “Everyman” comedian. For nearly half-a-century ...

Two months before Benny died of pancreatic cancer in December 1974 at age 80, Benny suggested that Fein become his pal Burns’ personal manager. Advertisement Gracie Allen, Burns’ wife and ...

Irving Fein, Manager for Jack Benny and George Burns, Dies at 101. ... After Allen died in 1964, Burns struggled as a solo act, but Fein came on board to revitalize Burns’ career.

Iconic TV comedians George Burns and Jack Benny were best friends for a half-century, going back to their days in vaudeville. But Burns’ long career got a remarkable second act when his pal had ...

Producer David Merrick brought in a parade of stars to follow Carol Channing, but there was one that got away.

The Burns and Allen show, 11/29/45 / by Paul Henning, Keith Fowler, and Willie Burns (George Burns, Gracie Allen, Jack Benny) -- 8. Suspense, 04/05/51. Murder in G-flat / by Richard George Petachini ...

LOS ANGELES — Irving Fein, a producer and manager who steered the careers of comedy greats George Burns and Jack Benny and named actress Lana Turner the ‘‘Sweater Girl,’’ has died, his ...

Ronnie Burns, 72, the son of George Burns and Gracie Allen who appeared occasionally with the comedy team on television in the 1950s, died Wednesday of cancer at his Pacific Palisades home, said hi… ...

The legendary Jack Benny was a gentle, generous man with no shortage of famous friends—and so beloved that even a headline-making scandal couldn’t put a dent in his popularity.