The Face Is Familiar

The Face Is Familiar 

 

Click on the picture if you recognize the face but just can't remember the name, or if you want to know the Wisconsin connection. As for the title of this post, Jack Benny once appeared on the old radio program Suspense in an episode titled "The Face Is Familiar" (7 MB mp3 file here). In it Benny plays a nondescript fellow named Tom Jones who is so plain-looking that nobody can ever remember him, and some gangsters trick him into robbing a bank to take advantage of that fact. Shortly after that Benny reprised his role on TV in an episode of Ronald Reagan's General Electric Theater.