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The Jack Benny Program Season 5 Episode 14

You Bet Your Life

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AIRED: 4/3/55

Jack is dressed as Little Boy Blue to attend Darryl Zanuck's costume party, to which he wasn't invited. When he reads that Groucho Marx is giving away $3000 on You Bet Your Life, he forgets the party and sets his sites on winning the jackpot. Disguised in a wavy wig and mustache, Jack appears on Groucho's show claiming to be musician Ronald (and sometimes Rodney) Forsythe. In an effort to say the "secret word" (something found in the home) Jack ignores Groucho's questions to name everything he can think of in his house. Thanks to a smart partner, Benny and his teammate are only one question away the jackpot. The question, however, makes "Ronald" squirm: Just how old is that lying bum Jack Benny?moreless

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Jack Benny	Himself
Don Wilson	Himself
Eddie Anderson	Rochester Van Jones

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Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

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Groucho Marx	Himself	Guest Star
Don Durand	Sailor, Contestant	Guest Star
Jean Mahoney	Miss Johnson, Girl Contestant	Guest Star
Martin Sperzel	Sportsmen Quartet (1950-1957)	Recurring Role
Bill Days	Sportsmen Quartet	Recurring Role
Gurney Bell	Sportsmen Quartet Member	Recurring Role

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QUOTES (2)
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- (the secret word is "telephone")
  Groucho: You know, I've heard that a lot of imitation Strads have been made and sold.
  Jack: I know, but they could never fool me, you see, because I could tell a phony.
  (horn blows because Jack said the secret word "tell a phony")
  Jack: I guessed it! I guessed it! I guessed it!
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- Groucho: (in the quiz show segment) What is your name sir?
  Jack Uh, Forsythe. Ronald Forsythe.
  Groucho (ad libs) Ronald, huh? It was Rodney during rehearsal.
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- On You Bet Your Life, Groucho Marx would ask a pair of contestants a series of questions for a nominal amount of money; the game was really just an excuse for Groucho to make jokes. Each episode featured a "secret word" that, when said by a contestant, would cause a stuffed duck on a rope to drop down from the ceiling with money in its mouth.
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