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Robert Benchley 3z424d
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1889-09-14
Place of Birth:Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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Also Known As:Роберт Бенчли, Robert Charles Benchley

The Reluctant Dragon (1941) a5l1w
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...

I Married a Witch (1942) 5p4m63
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.

Nice Girl? (1941) 4ed2r
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...

You'll Never Get Rich (1941) 4r4f43
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.

Road to Utopia (1946) 1r553c
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...

The Sky's the Limit (1943) 3i3n6b
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly...

Dancing Lady (1933) 461tu
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...

Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) 4gj1k
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...

The Major and the Minor (1942) nt6u
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...

Bedtime Story (1941) 226s6l
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

China Seas (1935) 5on5x
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...

Showbiz Goes to War (1982) 384f2q
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the...

See Here, Private Hargrove (1944) 2md6v
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...

Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) 3hge
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...

Three Girls About Town (1941) 4a3r33
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

Syncopation (1942) 5435o
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

Hired Wife (1940) 6z6q3n
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...

Take a Letter, Darling (1942) 514a57
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an from a tobacco company, they...

Young and Willing (1943) 4k6831
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of...
The Spellbinder (1928) 6r3558
The Spellbinder is a comedy short.
Lesson No. 1 (1929) a6r2m
Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.
Furnace Trouble (1929) 5x86t
Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.
Stewed, Fried and Boiled (1929) 282r5k
Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.
How to Break 90 at Croquet (1935) 3x3m4y
Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937) 4a126l
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...

Rafter Romance (1933) o5dn
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

The Stork Club (1945) 2b2k3b
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...

Flesh and Fantasy (1943) 681c1b
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...

The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928) 3e2g40
Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able...

Piccadilly Jim (1936) 21a3r
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...

How to Be a Detective (1936) 5l5t1o
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

Headline Shooter (1933) 2o4j4m
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Practically Yours (1944) a2e6m
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...

Live, Love and Learn (1937) 651e1y
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...

How to Sleep (1935) p4d72
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...

A Night at the Movies (1937) 691p33
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...

The Bride Wore Boots (1946) o1y6z
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
The Treasurer's Report (1928) 1x8c
Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.

Janie (1944) 4g5t5n
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

Janie Gets Married (1946) 4m85x
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

How to Start the Day (1937) i2f1x
Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.

Foreign Correspondent (1940) 2c433a
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...

Kiss and Tell (1945) 684462
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...

Pan-Americana (1945) 3b4u73
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

The Pixar Story (2007) 1w6625
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of...

The Sport Parade (1932) 6j1r2d
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

Social (1934) 3ma6m
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....

Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961) 1o4c49
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

How to Eat (1939) 143y1u
Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

Important Business (1944) 5q3r3f
Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."

How to Behave (1936) 263w5h
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...

My Tomato (1943) 5r4z5c
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...

How to Train a Dog (1936) j5s
This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

Mental Poise (1938) 5n2i10
In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

The Romance of Digestion (1937) w5c2r
A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

Snafu (1945) 2b5o5m
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle...

An Hour for Lunch (1939) 316h3a
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

How to Figure Income Tax (1938) 1m6f6k
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

How to Vote (1936) 3p1z18
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

Why Daddy? (1944) 62o58
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...

Her Primitive Man (1944) 5fo6l
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

See Your Doctor (1939) 621i12
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...

Home Movies (1940) s2u1q
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

It's in the Bag! (1945) 185e1n
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

Nothing But Nerves (1942) 182w5p
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...

How to Read (1938) 3r296v
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
The National Barn Dance (1944) 5n4n5d
This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.

Song of Russia (1944) 666m14
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

Boogie Woogie (1945) 3q6w4d
While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

That Inferior Feeling (1940) 5021w
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

How to Watch Football (1938) 34h1s
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

Home Early (1939) 363b9
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945) 533i4k
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 his caravan.

Duffy's Tavern (1945) 5v4z6m
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
Your Technocracy and Mine (1933) 2r1c3v
Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.

How to Raise a Baby (1938) 4a2ex
American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

The Forgotten Man (1941) 421e1v
Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the nuptials.
David O. Selznick: Your New Producer (1935) 4u2j1o
Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.
Keeping in Shape (1942) 3o122z
Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
How to Take a Vacation (1941) s545i
In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.

Waiting for Baby (1941) 3py1b
Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

The Courtship of the Newt (1938) 1mu5v
Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

An Evening Alone (1938) 176927
Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

Opening Day (1938) 3j4z6k
The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

The Day of Rest (1939) 223i
Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.
No News Is Good News (1943) 5t5q1c
Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

How to Sub-Let (1939) j161s
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

Dark Magic (1939) 3f544c
A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

Show-Business at War (1943) 6o586a
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) 4a8b
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...

The Witness (1942) 5r4041
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 ...

The Trouble with Husbands (1940) 484p4v
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...

Crime Control (1941) 76g57
A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...

Music Made Simple (1938) 23a2l
Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.

The Ten-Year Lunch (1987) 3y2k3d
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...

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6 (2004) 6s3p4o
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a...

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964) 3p455d
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936) 5g6j5y
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...