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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 ...
Robert Benchley The Woolen Mitten Situation (1926) Humorist Robert Benchley (1889–1945) produced over 600 essays, [1] initially compiled in over twelve volumes, during his writing career. [2] He was also featured in a number of films, including 48 short treatments that he mostly wrote or co-wrote, and numerous feature films. [3]
That Inferior Feeling (1940) is a short comedy film produced by Robert Benchley for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Benchley appears as Joe Doakes in a series of scenes demonstrating the symptoms of inferiority, Benchley also serves as narrator.
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author. He is best known for his bestselling novel Jaws and co-wrote its movie adaptation with Carl Gottlieb . Several more of his works were also adapted for both cinema and television, including The Deep , The Island , Beast , and White Shark .
[5] Robert van Gelder of the New York Times wrote, "if there is a better bedside book than this it should be beside the couch of Jove." [ 6 ] A reviewer at The Baltimore Sun wrote, "I have never been able to find much humor in the writings of Robert Benchley but I must say his latest book, My Ten Years In A Quandary And How They Grew , has ...
The 20th century American humorist Robert Benchley is remembered for saying that there are “two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two ...
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.
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...