Jack Benny: Guest Mitzi Green - Mrs. Wiggs of the Onion Patch (1934)

Jack Benny hosts a 1934 episode of his radio show, which opens with banter about infant photographs and baby Leroy. The cast then performs a comic playlet, Mrs. Wiggs of the Onion Patch, in which Mary Livingstone plays Mrs. Wiggs, a widowed mother of six struggling to feed her family as Thanksgiving approaches. Jack Benny takes the role of a wealthy neighbor who offers help, while Mrs. Wiggs is pressed for three dollars owed on her house. Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris and Frank Parker join the cast. The episode closes with guest Mitzi Green performing impressions and a song.

With Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Frank Parker, Mitzi Green, Mrs. Wiggs, Boris Van Ich.

Listen for: Jack Benny's exaggerated banter about infant photographs and baby Leroy, and Mitzi Green's impressions.

First aired on November 18, 1934 on NBC / CBS Radio.

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