George Washington Slept Here (DVD)

Manhattanites Bill and Connie Fuller are trying to make a go of life in their dilapidated, recently purchased country home. The place has a lot of history. George Washington slept there. Or was it Benedict Arnold? Before Tom Hanks and Shelley Long fell into the Money Pit, even before Cary Grant and Myrna Loy unrolled a blueprint for hilarity in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan turned a fixer-upper home into a comedy funhouse in George Washington Slept Here, based on the play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Percy Kilbride, the screen's future Pa Kettle, here reprises his stage role of the drawling, unflappable handyman Mr. Kimber.

Starring: Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride, Hattie McDaniel, Douglas Croft, Harvey Stephens, Hank Mann, Cliff Saum, William Tracy, Joyce Reynolds, Lee Patrick, Charles Dingle, John Emery, Franklin Pangborn, Sol Gorss, Glen Cavender, Dudley Dickerson, Jack Mower, Gertrude Carr, Chester Clute, Isabel Withers

Director: Jerry Wald

Rating: NR