ARTISTS & MODELS / MAN ABOUT TOWN

Legendary entertainer Jack Benny sparkles in this double bill of musical-comedy gems. Artists and Models (1937) – Advertising bigwig Mac Brewster (Benny) is charged with choosing a queen for the yearly Artists and Models Ball in this fast-paced charmer directed by Raoul Walsh (Pursued, White Heat) and co-starring Ida Lupino in an early role. The score includes the classic song, “Whispers in the Dark,” and specialty numbers feature Ben Blue, Judy Canova, Martha Raye, Louis Armstrong and the singing quartet, the Yacht Club Boys. Man About Town (1939) – Broadway producer Bob Temple (Benny), who’s brought a show to London, loves his glamorous star Diana (Dorothy Lamour), but she won’t take him seriously. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington (Binnie Barnes), whose financier husband (Edward Arnold) neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob finds himself a pawn for Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous. Mark Sandrich (Top Hat, Holiday Inn) directed this frothy, tune-filled farce.