Blanc went on to speaking parts, playing a wide variety of sardonic and hysterical characters. He played caustic delivery men and punchdrunk fight trainers. As Benny's beleaguered French violin teacher, he suffered through Benny's scrapings and then had to plead for his money. Inevitably, Benny had no small change-he was a dime off, and this called for a trip to his vault. At last, liberated, Professor LeBlanc would scream, "I'm free! I'm free!" and storm out joyously, singing the Marseillaise.
( John Dunning )
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