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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 Benchley (1915–1981), American author Peter Benchley (1940–2006), American author Robert Benchley (1889–1945), American humorist Benchley, satirical...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • stars Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, and Robert Benchley. American orchestra conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) and his manager, Hank Higgins (Robert Benchley)...
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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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  • 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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    Dancing Lady (category Films directed by Robert Z. Leonard)
    Tone, Fred Astaire, Robert Benchley, and Ted Healy and his Stooges (later the Three Stooges). The picture was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced...
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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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  • 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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    halfway down) from LexingtonFilm.com Robert Benchley Society Los Angeles, November 10-12, 2006 from RobertBenchley.org Bruce Cameron page from Creators...
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  • Chase, who served as the editor-in-chief of Vogue, Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley. Nast was married twice. His first wife was Clarisse Coudert, a Coudert...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • written and performed by Robert Benchley, based on a routine he first did in 1922. The short, which was adapted from an essay by Benchley, documents a dim-witted...
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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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  • a 1937 American romantic comedy film starring Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, and Robert Benchley. The movie was directed by George Fitzmaurice....
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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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