History Film / GeorgeWashingtonSleptHere

''George Washington Slept Here'' is a 1942 comedy film starring Creator/JackBenny, Creator/AnnSheridan, Creator/CharlesCoburn, 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.

''George Washington Slept Here'' is a 1942 comedy film starring [[Radio/TheJackBennyProgram Jack Benny]], Creator/AnnSheridan, Creator/CharlesCoburn, 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.

''George Washington Slept Here'' is a 1942 comedy film starring [[Radio/TheJackBennyProgram Jack Benny]], Creator/AnnSheridan, Creator/CharlesCoburn, 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.

''George Washington Slept Here'' is a 1942 comedy film starring Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, and Hattie Mc Daniel. 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.

[[CityMouse Manhattanite]] Connie Fuller (Sheridan) secretly acquires a [[Main/TheAllegedHouse dilapidated house]] in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania, without her husband Bill's (Benny) knowledge. The couple were forced out of their New York City apartment after their dog damaged the carpets. The house Connie buys is believed to have served as George Washington's temporary home during the Revolutionary War. Connie takes Bill on a tour of the countryside including the house, hoping that Bill will fall in love with it.

[[{{Main/Understatement}} He's not as taken with it as she is.]]

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: The invasion of the [[HungryMenace 17-year-locusts]] leave Bill and Mr. Kimber in this state.

* Tap on the Head: Mr. Kimber delivers one to Raymond to prevent him from blowing Uncle Stanley's cover when he engages in a ZanyScheme to save the house from foreclosure (see below).

* MistakenForCheating: Bill thinks Connie is having an affair with local antiques dealer Jeff Douglas. [[spoiler: He's also something of a local historian and is helping her determine that the access road and also a well that Prescott claims are his are actually on the Fuller property.

* BlatantLies: Bill and Connie (and the rest of her family) pretend to enjoy visits from long-winded but [[UnclePennybags rich Uncle Stanley]] hoping to be remembered in his will and he does not disabuse them of this notion, but the truth is he lost everything in TheGreatDepression and uses his relatives' greed to freeload on them

* CityMouse: The Fullers

* BlatantLies: Bill and Connie (and the rest of her family) put up with visits from long-winded but [[UnclePennybags rich Uncle Stanley]] hoping to be remembered in his will and he does not disabuse them of this notion, but the truth is he lost everything in TheGreatDepression and uses his relatives' greed to freeload on them

* Jerkass: The Fuller's thoroughly unlikable neighbour Mr. Prescott won't let them use his road to get to their house, and plans to buy the house and land when the bank forecloses.

George Washington Slept Here is a 1942 comedy film starring Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, and Hattie Mc Daniel. 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.

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* TheAllegedHouse: The broken-down house that Connie buys definitely qualifies.

* Tap on the Head: Mr. Kimber delivers one to Raymond to prevent him form blowing Uncle Stanley's cover when he engages in a ZanyScheme to save the house (see below).
* TheMoneyPit: The house quickly becomes this, which leads to the pending foreclosure.

* MoneyPit: The house quickly becomes this, which leads to the pending foreclosure.