Jack Oakie

1903–1978 · American film comedian

Jack Oakie, born Lewis Delaney Offield in Sedalia, Missouri, was a Paramount comedy star of the late silent and early sound era, best remembered now for his Mussolini parody in Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940), which brought him an Academy Award nomination. He appears here for a smaller reason: in January 1931 a newspaper feature promoting his film The Gang Buster printed a list of mock-superstitions under his name, six months before the same jokes appeared under Groucho Marx’s.

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“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere”

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