Time described it thusly: "As lavish, tuneful, talent-packed as a good radio variety hour, Man About Town is just about as entertaining, just about as memorable." In her 2017 book
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy, media studies professor Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley wrote that "
Man About Town, a lightweight film, was far funnier and fresher than anybody had anticipated."
Silver Screen magazine called it "the best of the Jack Benny pictures. It has swell gags, sprightly dialogue, and some pleasing acting by Jack—but lordy, lordy, it's Rochester who fairly wraps up the picture and takes it home. Others also praised Anderson, who played Benny's valet Rochester in the radio program.
Cue magazine stated that the "brightest star in the picture is, oddly enough, not Benny but ... Eddie Anderson." Howard Barnes wrote in the
New York Herald Tribune that "you are likely to come away from the picture remembering the colored player's laugh-provoking and versatile performance as vividly or more vividly than the star's." Paramount, seeing how successful
Man About Town was, immediately produced another film starring the radio cast,
Buck Benny Rides Again, released the following year. ==References==