Gossip Friday: I’m with the Band

From January 1941:

Leave it to Hollywood to think up ways and means of having fun at parties. The newest is the musical instrument gag that develops into an amateur orchestra with big name guests furnishing the music, if such it can be called. Going on the assumption that everyone thinks he can play some instrument whether he can or not, the Jack Bennys, at a recent shindig, rented an assortment of musical noisemaners and bade the guests go to it.

Clark Gable and Bob Taylor each grabbed a saxophone, Gracie Allen a flute, Barbara Stanwyck a trombone, Jack Benny a bass violin, while Mary Livingston snitched the drums. After due rehearsals (and the night shall be filled with music, did you say?) the amateur orchestra delivered, “I’ll Never Smile Again”, with variations.

George Burns declared he, for one, never would smile again.

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I, for one, would have loved to have heard that! Regardless of how bad it was!

This week, there are lots of new photos in the gallery. I am working on the gallery format a bit so I apologize if it doesn’t work properly in the coming days.