Here we have a promotional short subject advertising Jack Benny's new film version of Charley's Aunt (1941). It's called Three of a Kind; numbers two and three are Tyrone Power and Randolph Scott. The show opens in the studio cafe on the 20th-Century Fox lot where we find Jack eating and bemoaning his casting as Charley's Aunt. He talks to Mary Livingstone on the phone and tells her that he wants to be in a picture in which he gets the leading lady, but instead he *is* the leading lady! Back at Jack's table, Tyrone Power makes an entrance in uniform for A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941), and he describes an exciting scene in the picture and mentions his leading lady. Randolph Scott then appears and does the same thing, getting in a plug for Belle Starr (1941).
Poor Jack tries to pretend he's playing a he-man in his next action-packed movie, but the boy who keeps showing up asking for Jack's approval on women's clothing gives the game away. Instead of laughing, Ty and Randy are mighty impressed and jealous -- Charley's Aunt is the "funniest comedy in the history of the theatre!" says Ty. So now of course Jack is thrilled with his role, and he tells Mary so over the phone -- "the play's the thing!" Unfortunately Charley's Aunt will likely not be coming to a theatre near you, but it *is* on DVD if this promo did its job and you are now dying to see the picture. :)
Poor Jack tries to pretend he's playing a he-man in his next action-packed movie, but the boy who keeps showing up asking for Jack's approval on women's clothing gives the game away. Instead of laughing, Ty and Randy are mighty impressed and jealous -- Charley's Aunt is the "funniest comedy in the history of the theatre!" says Ty. So now of course Jack is thrilled with his role, and he tells Mary so over the phone -- "the play's the thing!" Unfortunately Charley's Aunt will likely not be coming to a theatre near you, but it *is* on DVD if this promo did its job and you are now dying to see the picture. :)
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