Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, a newspaper columnist and an actor.
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The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Y ...
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Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers. ...
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Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fitzgerald, Don Defore, Andy Russell, Iria Adrian and Robert Benchley. ...
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Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant. ...
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A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan. ...
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The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy. ...
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While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early. ...
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The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in. ...
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A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls. ...
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In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with P ...
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Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father. ...
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When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than stellar ...
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Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business. ...
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Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on th ...
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American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city to ...
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Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes incorrectly is being rationed as a war measure. Mrs. Doakes knows that tomatoes aren't rationed, but she does ...
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Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams. ...
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Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter. ...
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A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her. ...
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Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a mil ...
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A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love. ...
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After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink his coffee, and he thinks the arrival of some plumbers is just a giant conspiracy to keep him unnerved. ...
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As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account of the ways that a government investigative committee has been interrogating its witnesses. Joe then nods ...
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A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection. ...
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Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process ...
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Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials. ...
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Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes. ...
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Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands and shave. Then she sends him to the store for some butter, and he comes back with everything - except butt ...
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Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses. ...
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American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician's daughter and an urban ...
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A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies. ...
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Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined). ...
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A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office. ...
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Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock everyman and slightly bumbling character Joe Doakes to dramatize such situations. Situations that can imp ...
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A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club. ...
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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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Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned. ...
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The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day. ...
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Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar. ...
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A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes. ...
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Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right. ...
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A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through ...
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A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy. ...
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A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment. ...
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Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a fa ...
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A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and digesting food. The on-screen narrator begins with teeth, "little sentinels" as he calls them, and the tongu ...
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This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics. ...
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A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled. ...
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Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over ...
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Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing ...
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Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation. Hilarity ensues. ...
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A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research on slee ...
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Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard! ...
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Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it. ...
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Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, ...
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A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts. ...
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A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot. ...
Watch NowRobert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor. ...
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Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation. ...
Watch NowWhile his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early. ...
Watch NowWhen Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than stellar ...
Watch NowRobert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum. ...
Watch NowAs Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account of the ways that a government investigative committee has been interrogating its witnesses. Joe then nods ...
Watch NowA police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders that have recently been brought in. Shoelaces, for example, have an objectionable habit of breaking at crucia ...
Watch NowRobert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers. ...
Watch NowBenchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands and shave. Then she sends him to the store for some butter, and he comes back with everything - except butt ...
Watch NowAmerican crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician's daughter and an urban ...
Watch NowA comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies. ...
Watch NowJoe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined). ...
Watch NowA lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office. ...
Watch NowA businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club. ...
Watch NowA man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home. ...
Watch NowA man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away. ...
Watch NowIn this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself. ...
Watch NowHumorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game. ...
Watch NowRobert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading. ...
Watch NowRobert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation. ...
Watch NowAmerican humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father. ...
Watch NowBenchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar. ...
Watch NowA man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes. ...
Watch NowA Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through ...
Watch NowA brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and digesting food. The on-screen narrator begins with teeth, "little sentinels" as he calls them, and the tongu ...
Watch NowThis Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics. ...
Watch NowA candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled. ...
Watch NowTwo men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation. Hilarity ensues. ...
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A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector ...
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Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the wa ...
Watch NowRobert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor. ...
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Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump. ...
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