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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. From his beginnings at The Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him ...
The Benchley Roundup - Harper and Brothers, 1954. 288p- A collection of essays, written between 1915 and 1945, edited by Nathaniel Benchley; Benchley Lost and Found: Thirty-Nine Prodigal Pieces - Dover Publications, 1970. 183p. The Benchley Omnibus - University of Chicago Press, 1983. 353p - Edited by Nathaniel Benchley.
The collection is considered one of Benchley's "most brilliant." [4] A reviewer at America wrote, that My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew is "bristling… with tiny, droll essays on almost every subject imaginable, and inducing in the reader a state of sustained hilarity."
Robert Benchley John Carradine Sidney Toler Victor Moore: Cinematography: Russell Metty: ... Jefferson T. Pike, and Trumble's former associates, Arnold and Gardner ...
The Treasurer's Report (1928) is 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 treasurer of an organization struggling to present its yearly report.
Members and associates of the Algonquin Round Table ca. 1919: (standing, left to right) Art Samuels and Harpo Marx; (sitting) Charles MacArthur, Dorothy Parker, and Alexander Woollcott The Algonquin Round Table was a group of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits.
The short, which was adapted from an essay by Benchley, documents a dim-witted doctor attempting to discuss the sex life of a polyp to a women's club. This was the second of Benchley's 46 comedy short films, with six made for Fox, one each for Universal Pictures and RKO Radio Pictures, 29 for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and nine for Paramount Pictures.
Benchley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Henry Wetherby Benchley (1822–1867), American politician; Nat Benchley (21st century), American actor; Nathaniel Benchley (1915–1981), American author; Peter Benchley (1940–2006), American author; Robert Benchley (1889–1945), American humorist