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    Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and movie actor...
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    Nathaniel Benchley and Marjorie (née Bradford), and grandson of Algonquin Round Table founder Robert Benchley. His younger brother, Nat Benchley, is a writer...
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  • stars Algonquin Round Table member, film actor, writer and comedian Robert Benchley and many Disney staffers such as Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Norman Ferguson...
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  • Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was the son of Robert Benchley (1889–1945), a noted American writer, humorist, critic, and actor and...
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    No Sirree! which helped launch a Hollywood career for Round Tabler Robert Benchley. In its ten years of association, the Round Table and a number of its...
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    Nathaniel Robert "Nat" Benchley is an American actor who has performed for stage, television, and cinema. Benchley is the son of Nathaniel Benchley, an author...
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  • Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund Gwenn. Foreign Correspondent was Hitchcock's second...
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  • comedy film starring Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, and Robert Benchley. The movie was directed by George Fitzmaurice. Robert Montgomery as Bob Graham...
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  • stars Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, and Robert Benchley. American conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) and his manager, Hank Higgins (Robert Benchley),...
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  • Dark Magic (1939) is a short comedy film produced by Robert Benchley for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Benchley appears as Joe Doakes, who goes to a magic shop to...
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  • Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Academy-Award-winner Robert Benchley introduces the film, explaining that “the front office” has charged...
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    Algonquin Round Table. He was close friends with Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley, who were on the staff of Vanity Fair with Sherwood when the Round...
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    Humorist Robert Benchley (1889–1945) produced over 600 essays, initially compiled in over twelve volumes, during his writing career. He was also featured...
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  • Award for Best Actress. Peter Benchley, who plays editor Frank Crowninshield, was the grandson of humorist Robert Benchley, who once worked underneath Crowninshield...
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  • adventure film based on Peter Benchley's 1976 novel of the same name. It was directed by Peter Yates, and stars Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset and Nick...
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  • Nathaniel Benchley (1915–1981), American author Peter Benchley (1940–2006), American author Robert Benchley (1889–1945), American humorist Benchley, satirical...
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    vacationing P. G. Wodehouse. At the magazine, she met Robert Benchley, who became a close friend, and Robert E. Sherwood. The trio began lunching at the Algonquin...
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    Dancing Lady (category Films directed by Robert Z. Leonard)
    Astaire, Robert Benchley, and Ted Healy and His Stooges (Curly, Moe and Larry, who later became The Three Stooges). The picture was directed by Robert Z. Leonard...
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    movie Dying Young (in which his mother also appeared) alongside Julia Roberts. He also appeared in the 1992 Cameron Crowe movie Singles alongside Bridget...
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  • – American writer Henry Beard – cofounder of the National Lampoon Robert Benchley – American humorist and film actor, known for writings in Vanity Fair...
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    as her foil. The film also features Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward and Cecil Kellaway. The screenplay by Robert Pirosh and Marc Connelly and uncredited...
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    for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. Robert Benchley (1889–1945), best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film...
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    run, "The Conning Tower" featured contributions from such writers as Robert Benchley, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, Edna St. Vincent Millay...
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  • about the place, titled simply The Garden of Allah. Humorist and actor Robert Benchley was a frequent resident. An array of Golden Age Hollywood stars and...
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    Jaws (novel) (category Novels by Peter Benchley)
    Jaws is a novel by American writer Peter Benchley, published in 1974. It tells the story of a large great white shark that preys upon a small Long Island...
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  • and starring Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack, and Robert Benchley. Based on the play Nice Girl? by Phyllis Duganne, the film...
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  • Vinograd, Julia, The Book of Jerusalem, Bench Press, 1984. Benchley, Robert, Chips Off the Old Benchley, Harper & Row, 1949, pp. 158-64. Video on YouTube[dead...
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  • Eleanor Powell and Robert Taylor and features Buddy Ebsen, George Murphy, Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, Raymond Walburn, Robert Benchley and Binnie Barnes...
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  • Christine Johnston. The film stars Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Robert Benchley, and Dorothy Malone. The film was released by...
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    Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work was praised by Robert Benchley in The New Yorker and in 1939 she was signed as a Scribner author where...
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