Ben Mankiewicz Intro - George Washington Slept Here (1942)

George Washington Slept Here - (Original Trailer)

Jack Benny says goodbye to city life when he buys a Connecticut farmhouse in the movie version of the Kaufman and Hart play George Washington Slept Here (1942).

George Washington Slept Here (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Trapped Like A Rat

A missing phone, panicked maid Hester (Hattie McDaniel), sister Madge (Joyce Reynolds), boyfriend Steve (William Tracy), and disgruntled husband Bill (Jack Benny), creating problems for Connie (Ann Sheridan) in her Pennsylvania farmhouse, in George Washington Slept Here, 1942.

George Washington Slept Here (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Motel For Buzzards

Thrown out of their New York apartment, Connie (Ann Sheridan) carefully reveals to Bill (Jack Benny) why she's taken him on a trip to the Pennsylvania countryside, in George Washington Slept Here, 1942, featuring Percy Kilbride, from the hit Broadway play, as "Mr. Kimber."

George Washington Slept Here (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Roomy Drawers

Jack Benny (as "Bill Fuller") arrives home not knowing wife Connie (Ann Sheridan) has, sort of on purpose, gotten them evicted from their Manhattan apartment by landlord Gibney (Franklin Pangborn), early in George Washington Slept Here, 1942, from the Kaufman and Hart play.