BEN BLUE
b. September 12, 1901 in Montréal, Québec.
d. March 7, 1975 in Hollywood, California
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This William Morris Agency photograph of Ben Blue is part of the Northern Stars Collection.
Ben Blue started out in life as Benjamin Bernstein and emigrated to the United States where he became a dance instructor and dance school owner, as well as a nightclub proprietor. He began his motion picture career doing short films for Warner Brothers Studios in 1926, and later worked at the Hal Roach Studios, Paramount Studios, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The large gap in his career in the 1950s is the period when he essentially dropped out of the film business to concentrate on managing the nightclubs he owned. He did continue to appeared on a number of TV shows and regularly in nightclubs, but he didn't restart his film career until the 1960s when he began making comedic cameo appearances in such films as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and Norman Jewison's The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming.
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Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
What Price Taxi (1932)
Strange Innertube (1932)
Wreckety Wrecks (1933)
College Rhythm (1933)
Call Her Sausage (1933)
College Holiday (1936)
Turn Off the Moon (1937)
Thrill of a Lifetime (1937)
High, Wide, and Handsome (1937)
Artists and Models (1937)
College Swing (1938)
Coconut Grove (1938)
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
Paris Honeymoon (1939)
For Me and My Gal (1942)
Thousands Cheer (1943)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Easy to Wed (1946)
My Wild Irish Rose (1947)
One Sunday Afternoon (1948)
The Land of OZ (TV-1960)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (1966)
A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
The Busy Body (1967)
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
TV Series - Cast:
The Frank Sinatra Show (1950 - 1952)
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The Russians Are Coming,
The Russians Are Coming
was directed by
Norman Jewison.
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