Ben Blue (Born Benjamin Bernstein) (September 12,1901 - March 7, 1975) was an actor and comedian.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Bernstein emigrated to the United States where he became a dance instructor, a dance school owner, and 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. He also, like his "The Big Broadcast of 1938" co-star Bob Hope, was a radio comedian. In 1950, he had his own TV series, The Ben Blue Show , and was a regular on The Frank Sinatra Show .
In 1951, Blue began concentrating on managing and appearing in nightclubs in Hollywood and San Francisco. He made the cover of TV Guide's June 11, 1954 Special Issue along with Alan Young, headlining an edition featuring that season's summer replacement shows. Blue had a bit part in Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Ben Blue passed away in Hollywood in 1975 and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
