George Washington Slept Here

George Washington Slept Here (1942)

YOU'LL GET HAPPY HYSTERICS in this history-mocking comedy

New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution.

Date of release
1942-10-30
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy
Director
William Keighley

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

George Washington Slept Here is a 1942 comedy film starring Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride, and Hattie McDaniel. It was based on the 1940 play of the same name by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, adapted by Everett Freeman, and was directed by William Keighley.

Production

Jack Benny was starring in his first Warner Bros. feature, and when the stage play George Washington Slept Here was proposed, Benny went to a performance. In the original stage production, it was the husband, not the wife, who bought the property, and had been the "straight man". The focus was changed for the film, reversing the roles to play into Benny's established persona of being a miser as well as the comic foil.

To recreate the country home that was central to the film's plot, the house in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) which was actually shot in 1941 for a later theatrical release, was used. To ensure it looked the part of a dilapidated home, Warner Bros. crews knocked out bannisters, rafters and floors on the set.

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