Robert Benchley
Birthday: 1889-09-14
Place of Birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Biography: Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, a newspaper columnist and an actor.
Movies
The Reluctant Dragon
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gent...
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I Married a Witch
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter ...
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Nice Girl?
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built ...
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You'll Never Get Rich
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfri...
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Road to Utopia
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had bee...
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The Sky's the Limit
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes in...
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Dancing Lady
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the r...
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Broadway Melody of 1938
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading ...
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The Major and the Minor
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train...
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Bedtime Story
A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is t...
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China Seas
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: ...
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Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...
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See Here, Private Hargrove
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his t...
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a w...
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Three Girls About Town
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo...
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Hired Wife
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his ...
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Take a Letter, Darling
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to ...
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Young and Willing
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' f...
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robe...
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Rafter Romance
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts....
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The Stork Club
After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that th...
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Flesh and Fantasy
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New O...
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The Sex Life of the Polyp
Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a...
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Piccadilly Jim
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at ...
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Headline Shooter
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot....
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How to Be a Detective
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical...
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Practically Yours
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, an...
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Live, Love and Learn
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get mar...
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How to Sleep
A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and in...
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A Night at the Movies
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success s...
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The Bride Wore Boots
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife....
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The Treasurer's Report
Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys b...
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Janie
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father....
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Janie Gets Married
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her fath...
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How to Start the Day
Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right....
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Foreign Correspondent
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i...
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Kiss and Tell
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-ye...
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Pan-Americana
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls....
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The Pixar Story
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's p...
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The Sport Parade
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation....
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Social Register
Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love,...
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How to Eat
Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's a...
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Important Business
Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."...
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How to Behave
Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This lead...
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My Tomato
Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eatin...
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Mental Poise
In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself....
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The Romance of Digestion
A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific ...
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Snafu
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family...
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An Hour for Lunch
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunat...
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How to Figure Income Tax
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes....
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How to Vote
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and h...
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Why Daddy?
When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages h...
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Her Primitive Man
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a speci...
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See Your Doctor
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who ge...
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Home Movies
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies....
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It's in the Bag!
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in....
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Nothing But Nerves
After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so...
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How to Read
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading....
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The National Barn Dance
This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title bega...
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Song of Russia
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi...
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Boogie Woogie
While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night...
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That Inferior Feeling
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of aut...
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How to Watch Football
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game....
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Home Early
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wi...
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Hollywood Victory Caravan
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She pe...
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Duffy's Tavern
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces t...
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Your Technocracy and Mine
Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor....
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How to Raise a Baby
American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father....
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David O. Selznick: Your New Producer
Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selzn...
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How to Take a Vacation
In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband atte...
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The Forgotten Man
Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming ...
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Waiting for Baby
Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers....
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No News Is Good News
Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum....
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Opening Day
The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day....
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How to Sub-Let
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away....
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Dark Magic
A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home....
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The Courtship of the Newt
Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation....
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Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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The Witness
As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he exp...
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Crime Control
A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human...
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The Trouble with Husbands
Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is...
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Music Made Simple
Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar....
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The Ten-Year Lunch
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the...
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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy a...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States -...
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The Causes Of The Depression
Mr Benchley first expounded his interesting theory in December 1931, and as it remains the clearest ...
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