Mary Livingstone was the wife and radio partner of comedian Jack Benny.
14 Facts About Mary Livingstone
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Mary Livingstone's father, David Marcowitz, was a prosperous Jewish scrap metal dealer from Romania.
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Mary Livingstone's brother, Hilliard Marks, was a radio and television producer who worked primarily for his future brother-in-law, Jack Benny.
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Mary Livingstone first met her future husband, Jack Benny, in Vancouver at a Passover seder in her family home in 1922, when Benny was playing the Orpheum Theatre.
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Mary Livingstone turned him down at first, as she was seeing another young man, but Benny persisted.
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Mary Livingstone's brother, Hilliard Marks, was a radio and television producer who worked primarily for his brother-in-law, Jack Benny.
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Benny and Mary Livingstone adopted a two-week old girl in 1934, whom they named Joanie.
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Mary Livingstone had a famous, successful, and adoring husband; she had famous, interesting, and amusing friends; she lived in luxury; she was a celebrity in her own right.
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Mary Livingstone believed that she intimidated her husband and was running his life.
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Mary Livingstone didn't want to have better things than her friends had, particularly Gracie; she wanted to have the same things, but more of them.
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Burns noted that while their circle of friends found Mary Livingstone challenging, there was a sense of fierce loyalty between them.
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An actress hired to play a part on the evening's show didn't show up and, instead of risking a hunt for a substitute, Benny thought his wife could handle the part: a character named Mary Livingstone scripted as Benny's biggest fan.
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Mary Livingstone underwent a change, too, from fan to tart secretary-foil; the character occasionally went on dates with Benny's character but they were rarely implied to be truly romantically involved otherwise.
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The lone known exceptions were a fantasy sequence used on both the radio and television versions of the show, as well as during an NBC musical tribute to Benny, in which Mary Livingstone admitted to being "Mrs Benny".