thumb|right|Benny did many television specials after leaving his regularly scheduled show. This is a promotional postcard for one of them, from 1960. Benny was able to attract guests who rarely, if ever, appeared on television. In 1953, both Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart made their television debuts on Benny's program.McMahon, Ed & David Fisher. When Television Was Young: Live, Spontaneous, and In Living Black and White. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2007. p. 103.Becker, Christine. It's the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars in 1950s Television. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2008. p. 35.
thumb|right|Benny did many television specials after leaving his regularly scheduled show. This is a promotional postcard for one of them, from 1960. Benny was able to attract guests who rarely, if ever, appeared on television. In 1953, both Marilyn :Monroe and Humphrey Bogart made their television debuts on Benny's program.McMahon, Ed & David Fisher. When Television Was Young: Live, Spontaneous, .and In Living Black and White. Nashv,ille, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2007. p. 103.Becker, Christine. It's the Pictures That .Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars in 1950s Television. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2008. p. 35.