 However, Silvers ignored Benny's advice and proceeded to win several Emmy awards as Sergeant Bilko on the popular series "The Phil Silvers Show", while Benny claimed he never won any of the television honors.Benny also acted in films, including the Academy Award-winning "The Hollywood Revue of 1929", "Broadway Melody of 1936" (as a benign nemesis for Eleanor Powell and Robert Taylor), "George Washington Slept Here" (1942), and notably, "Charley's Aunt" (1941) and "To Be or Not to Be" (1942).He and Livingstone also appeared in Ed Sullivan's "Mr. Broadway" (1933) as themselves.