Mary Livingstone

Mary Livingstone 160 June 30, 1983, was an American radio comedian and actress. She was the wife and radio partner of comedy great Jack Benny. Enlisted almost entirely by accident to perform on her husbands popular program, she proved a talented comedian. But she also proved one of the rare performers to experience severe stage fright years after her career was establishedso much so that she retired from show business completely, after two decades in the public eye, almost three decades before her death and at the height of her husband and partners fame.

Livingstone was born in Seattle, but raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Livingstones father was a Jewish immigrant from Romania. She came from a family of merchants and traders who had worked their way across Canada. Their family name of Markovitz was, at some point, anglicized to Marks. According to the International Jack Benny Fan Club, stories that Livingstone was related to the Marx Brothers or their uncle Al Shean of Gallagher and Shean are unfounded. She met her future husband, Jack Benny, at a Passover seder at her family home when she wasBenny was invited by his friend Zeppo Marx while Benny and the Marx Brothers were in town together to perform. Sadie developed a nearinstant crush on the funny, somewhat shy manyears her senior. But when he inadvertently insulted her by excusing himself for the night in the midst of her violin performance, she got her revenge the next night. She took three girlfriends to the theater where Benny performed, sitting in the front row a

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