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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Nathaniel Benchley (1915–1981), American author Peter Benchley (1940–2006), American author Robert Benchley (1889–1945), American humorist Benchley, satirical...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    Robert Benchley, became a famed humorist based in New York City. His great-grandson, Nathaniel Benchley, and great-great-grandson, Peter Benchley, also...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Barrymore, Harpo Marx, Ben Hecht, Beatrice Lillie and the humorist Robert Benchley. MacArthur's first radio role was on the Theatre Guild on the Air in...
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    Russell, Lewis Stone, Akim Tamiroff, and Hattie McDaniel, while humorist Robert Benchley memorably portrays a character reeling drunk from one end of the film...
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  • starring humorist Robert Benchley. Filmed and released by MGM in 1935 (as part of their "Miniatures" series), it features Benchley as a narrator as well...
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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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  • original story is a 1944 radio adaptation from This Is My Best, with Robert Benchley as the daydreaming Mitty. 20th Century Fox produced and Ben Stiller...
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  • a comedy sketch, made into a short film, written and performed by Robert Benchley. The film, made in the then-new Fox Movietone, documents an assistant...
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  • a number of Harry and Jack's relatives in high positions. Humorist Robert Benchley called it the Pine Tree Studio, "because it has so many Cohns". Brandt...
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