Charley's Aunt with Jack Benny: DVD Cover

    Charley's Aunt Director: Archie Mayo Cast: Jack Benny, Kay Francis, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn

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    • DVD Release Date: 06/12/2007
    • Original Release: 1941
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 21,624

    Viewer Rating: (2 ratings)

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    Features

    Commentary with film historian Randy Skretvedt; "Three of a Kind" - Charlie's Aunt promotional short; Still gallery

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    Scene Index

    Disc #1 -- Charley's Aunt
    1. Main Titles/Cricket Match [3:57]
    2. Tea Time [2:51]
    3. Where's My Tie? [3:55]
    4. Expelled [2:18]
    5. Dilemma [1:22]
    6. Loveless Marriage [7:06]
    7. Aunt Babbs [6:47]
    8. Mr. Spettigue [2:12]
    9. Where the Nuts Come From [5:00]
    10. Courtship [3:47]
    11. Marriage Proposal [4:39]
    12. Bearded Lady [6:21]
    13. True Love [6:59]
    14. Mrs. Smythe [2:31]
    15. Jumping for Joy [2:29]
    16. Charming Encounter [2:54]
    17. Bursting at the Seams [3:04]
    18. Racy Story [2:20]
    19. Anything You Like [1:45]
    20. Blowing Smoke [2:05]
    21. A Long Story [1:55]
    22. One Little Kiss [2:48]
    23. Duped [1:19]
    24. Charley's Aunt/End Titles [1:07]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt. Utilizing a gloriously unconvincing broad-A English accent, Benny is cast as Lord Fancourt Babberly, a somewhat overaged undergraduate at Oxford University. Babbs' roommates Jack Chesney (James Ellison) and Charley Wyckeham (Richard Haydn, in his film debut) are desirous of inviting their lady friends Kitty Verdun (Arleen Whelan) and Amy Spettigue (Anne Baxter) to their quarters, but first they must secure the services of a proper escort. When Charley's aunt Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez (Kay Francis) is detained, Jack and Charley coerce Babbs, who has dressed up as an old lady for a school play, to pose as the absent Donna Lucia. The fun really begins when, for reasons far too complicated to detail here, both Jack's father Sir Francis Chesney (Laird Cregar) and Amy's uncle Stephen Spettigue (Edmund Gwenn) romantically pursue the bogus aunt. The third-act arrival of the real Donna Lucia only adds to the comic confusion-but at least poor Babbs has finally found a lady friend closer to his own age. The female-impersonation angle in Charley's Aunt has been known to descend into vulgarity, but Jack Benny remains both hilarious and tasteful throughout. Understandably, the film was one of Benny's favorites. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    Not as Good as I Had Hopedby Flamengo

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    June 19, 2009: This movie is one I hadn't heard of and it promised to be an exciting farce with Jack Benny playing a part in drag. It was not as good as I had expected. Benny plays the part but mostly from a straight angle and doesn't get into any of his campy routines he became famous for. Most of the gags are simply ones that would be expected in a movie where someone is impersonating an old lady. And they are tired and not at all funny.

    Now I know why I hadn't heard about this movie.

    I think Haunted Honeymoon is a tad dopey, but it has this movie beat hands down.