Robert Benchley

Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film 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 respect and success during his life, from New York City and his peers at the Algonquin Round Table to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry.

Benchley is best remembered for his contributions to The New Yorker, where his essays, whether topical or absurdist, influenced many modern humorists. He also made a name for himself in Hollywood, when his short film How to Sleep was a popular success and won Best Short Subject at the 1935 Academy Awards, and through his many memorable appearances in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940) and (in a dramatic turn) Nice Girl? (1941). His legacy includes written work and numerous short film appearances.

'Robert Benchley' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)

Actors: Roc LaFortune (actor), Arthur Holden (actor), Stephen Baldwin (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Mark Camacho (actor), Robert Higden (actor), Gregory Hlady (actor), James Bradford (actor), Matthew Broderick (actor), Nick Cassavetes (actor), Jon Favreau (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), Gabriel Gascon (actor), Keith Carradine (actor), James Le Gros (actor),

Plot: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, adultery, alcohol, algonquin-round-table, based-on-literary, character-name-in-title, dog
Genres: Biography, Drama,
Taglines: At the center of the circle is a woman ahead of her time. New York in the 1920's. The only place to be was the Algonquin, and the only person to know was Dorothy Parker. A woman ahead of her time. A movie that can't be missed.

Quotes:

Dorothy Parker: I may have him mounted.::Robert Benchley: One would assume.

Dorothy Parker: The sun's gone dim, the moon's turned black; for I loved him and he didn't love back.

Dorothy Parker: I'd kiss you, but I'm not sure it'd come out right.

Robert Benchley: You'd have to wear out a pretty large hole in your pocket to lose me, Mrs. Parker.

Dorothy Parker: I never liked a man I didn't meet.

Dorothy Parker: I write doodads because it's a doodad kind of town.

Dorothy Parker: Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you, drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful; you might as well live.

Dorothy Parker: Time doth flit; oh shit.

Dorothy Parker: You don't want to turn into the town drunk, Eddie. Not in Manhattan.

[after being chewed out for missing a magazine deadline]::Dorothy Parker: Someone else was using the pencil.

Duffy's Tavern (1945)

Actors: William Demarest (actor), Brian Donlevy (actor), Arturo de Córdova (actor), Howard Da Silva (actor), Charles Cane (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Eddie Bracken (actor), Davison Clark (actor), James Brown (actor), Robert Benchley (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), William Bendix (actor), Walter Abel (actor), Lester Dorr (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Musical,

Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945)

Actors: Robert Benchley (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Melville Shavelson (writer), Bob Hope (actor), Alan Ladd (actor), Franklin Pangborn (actor), Barbara Stanwyck (actress), Bing Crosby (actor), William Demarest (actor), Betty Hutton (actress), Marjorie Weaver (actress), Diana Lynn (actress), Dona Drake (actress), Charles Victor (actor), Noreen Nash (actress),

Plot: A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. But train travel is impossible just after the war. She pleads with an exasperated railroad agent for something, anything. He suggests she go to Paramount Pictures and talk to Bing Crosby, who is in charge of a Victory War Bonds show. The government has arranged a special caravan to Washington for the Hollywood stars. Maybe she could get a ride with them. The next morning, she arrives at the studio. She manages to get past the studio guard, who chases her around the lot. She encounters many stars, including Robert Benchley, Barbara Stanwyck and Alan Ladd. Finally, she meets Bing. The trouble is, if she wants Bing's upper berth, she will have to persuade Bob Hope to share his lower berth.

Keywords: berth, brother-sister-relationship, chase, cigarette-smoking, crying, dance, dancer, dancing, dreaming, exasperation
Genres: Comedy, Music, Short,

Quotes:

[last lines]::Bing Crosby: [singing] Buy a bond today. / We've got another bond to buy!

Bing Crosby: [singing] The bonds we bought before / Bought the bomb that won the war. / Now we've got another to bond to buy.

Bob Hope: [after Olga slaps him] She just set the Good Neighbor policy back eight years.

Bob Hope: Here's Miss Olga San Juan singing "Rumba matumba" and putting everything into her singing from south of her border to north of the Hayes Office.

Bob Hope: I even offered to kiss anybody that'd buy a fifty-dollar bond. I only sold one. Boris Karloff wants his money back.

Bob Hope: This is Bob "Hollywood Victory Caravan" Hope telling you not let up on buying those bonds. Don't stop at nuttin' and your bank account will be as well-stacked as Betty Hutton.

Bob Hope: Lard and myself in a lower berth? That's a concentration camp with pajamas.

Man: Came in second.::Bob Hope: And there's a meat shortage.

Bob Hope: I slept with Crosby once. You know what he does all night? He dreams about horses. All night long he kept going: [makes clicking noises] Kept beating me with the bedpost. When I woke up in the morning I'd eaten all the straw out of the mattress.

Alan Ladd: [after tripping Bill] Hey, this is more fun in real life than it is in the movies.

Show-Business at War (1943)

Actors: Glenn Ford (actor), W.C. Fields (actor), Errol Flynn (actor), Jackson Beck (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Edgar Bergen (actor), Louis Armstrong (actor), Joe E. Brown (actor), James Cagney (actor), Robert Benchley (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Michael Curtiz (actor), Walt Disney (actor), John Ford (actor),

Plot: A look at the many ways Hollywood contributes to the war effort. Stars and studio heads are in the service, cinematographers train soldier and sailors, John Ford heads a military film office, first-run films are shipped around the world for showing at bases, radio and movie personalities make stateside appearances, well-knows actors sell war bonds, actresses dance with servicemen at the Hollywood Canteen, and intrepid stars make overseas trips to entertain troops near the front. From training films to propaganda to morale boosting: Hollywood does it all.

Keywords: actor, actress, announcer, broadway-star, canteen, comedian, cook, fame, film-canister, film-director
Genres: Documentary, Short,

Music Made Simple (1938)

Actors: David Snell (composer), Jack Chertok (producer), Robert Benchley (writer), Robert Benchley (actor), Roy Rowland (director), Robert Lees (writer), Frederic I. Rinaldo (writer),

Plot: Despite not being a professional music critic but only a music lover, 'Robert Benchley' (qv) fills in as a radio station's announcer and critic for their symphony hour while their regular announcer and critic is away. He wants to demonstrate to the listening audience his expertise, but in addition to some technical difficulties, he only demonstrates his self-indulgence and lack of knowledge of the workings of a radio station. The stage manager and the conductor need to salvage this show in the only way they know how.

Keywords: anecdote, commentary, conductor, dismay, everyman, foolish, intermission, microphone, mistake, misunderstanding
Genres: Comedy, Short,

Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)

Actors: Chester Morris (actor), Frank McHugh (actor), Reginald Denny (actor), Frank Morgan (actor), Stuart Erwin (actor), Robert Benchley (actor), Norman Foster (actor), Russell Gleason (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Eric Blore (actor), John Howard (actor), Arthur Lake (actor), Dick Foran (actor), Groucho Marx (actor), Benny Rubin (actor),

Plot: In a nightclub setting, 'Reginald Denny (I)' (qv) acts as host to introduce singing and dancing acts. They perform to the music of 'George Hamilton (III)' (qv) and his "Music Box Music" orchestra. A 'galaxy of stars' attends the evening's festivities.

Keywords: accordion, al-jolson-spoof, band, bar, bellhop, burlesque-dancer, cameo, camera, candid-camera, champagne
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Short,

Social Register (1934)

Actors: Margaret Livingston (actress), Robert Allen (actor), Robert Benchley (actor), Marshall Neilan (director), Anita Loos (writer), John Emerson (writer), William C. de Mille (producer), Colleen Moore (actress), Clara Beranger (writer), Charles Winninger (actor), Pauline Frederick (actress), Marshall Neilan (producer), John Miltern (actor), James Ashmore Creelman (writer), Ross Alexander (actor),

Plot: Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it.

Keywords: 1930s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, apartment, chorus-girl, cigarette-smoking, cocktail, columnist, dancer, dancing
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance,
Taglines: She knocked the "high" hat off society! (original poster)

Your Technocracy and Mine (1933)

Actors: Robert Benchley (actor), Carl Laemmle (producer), Robert Benchley (writer),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Furnace Trouble (1929)

Actors: Ethel Wales (actress), Robert Benchley (actor), Robert Benchley (writer), James Parrott (director), Marguerite Churchill (actress), Paul Nicholson (actor), Thomas Chalmers (producer),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

The Spellbinder (1928)

Actors: Robert Benchley (actor), Robert Benchley (writer), Thomas Chalmers (producer), Thomas Chalmers (director),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Benchley, Robert Filmography

Play in Full Screen Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin

1998, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin

1998, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Showbiz Goes to War

1982, role: actor
Play in Full Screen That's Entertainment, Part II

1976, role: actor , character name: Film Clip
Play in Full Screen Hollywood: The Selznick Years

1969, role: actor , character name: Robert Benchley - Film Clip
Play in Full Screen The Big Parade of Comedy

1964, role: actor , character name: Joseph Doakes in 'That Inferior Feeling'
Play in Full Screen Light's Diamond Jubilee

1954, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen Janie Gets Married

1946, role: actor , character name: John Van Brunt
Play in Full Screen The Bride Wore Boots

1946, role: actor , character name: Uncle Todd Warren
Play in Full Screen Road to Utopia

1946, role: actor , character name: Narrator
Play in Full Screen Boogie Woogie

1945, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Boogie Woogie

1945, role: actor , character name: Frederick Stumplefinger, Father
Play in Full Screen Kiss and Tell

1945, role: actor , character name: Uncle George Archer
Play in Full Screen Pan-Americana

1945, role: actor , character name: Charlie Corker
Play in Full Screen Duffy's Tavern

1945, role: actor , character name: Robert Benchley
Play in Full Screen I'm a Civilian Here Myself

1945, role: writer
Play in Full Screen I'm a Civilian Here Myself

1945, role: actor , character name: Joe Doakes
Play in Full Screen Week-End at the Waldorf

1945, role: actor , character name: Randy Morton
Play in Full Screen The Stork Club

1945, role: actor , character name: Tom P. Curtis
Play in Full Screen Hollywood Victory Caravan

1945, role: actor , character name: Robert Benchley
Play in Full Screen Snafu

1945, role: actor , character name: Ben Stevens
Play in Full Screen It's in the Bag!

1945, role: actor , character name: Parker
Play in Full Screen Janie

1944, role: actor , character name: John Van Brunt
Play in Full Screen Song of Russia

1944, role: actor , character name: Hank Higgins
Play in Full Screen National Barn Dance

1944, role: actor , character name: J.B. Mitcham
Play in Full Screen Why Daddy?

1944, role: actor , character name: Joseph A. Doakes
Play in Full Screen Important Business

1944, role: actor , character name: Joseph A. Doakes
Play in Full Screen Why Daddy?

1944, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Her Primitive Man

1944, role: actor , character name: Martin Osborne
Play in Full Screen Important Business

1944, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Practically Yours

1944, role: actor , character name: Judge Robert Simpson
Play in Full Screen Why Daddy?

1944, role: writer
Play in Full Screen See Here, Private Hargrove

1944, role: actor , character name: Mr. Holliday
Play in Full Screen Flesh and Fantasy

1943, role: actor , character name: Doakes
Play in Full Screen My Tomato

1943, role: actor , character name: Joseph A. Doakes
Play in Full Screen No News Is Good News

1943, role: writer
Play in Full Screen No News Is Good News

1943, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Show-Business at War

1943, role: actor , character name: Robert Benchley
Play in Full Screen Young and Willing

1943, role: actor , character name: Arthur Kenny
Play in Full Screen No News Is Good News

1943, role: actor , character name: Answer Man
Play in Full Screen The Sky's the Limit

1943, role: actor , character name: Phil Harriman
Play in Full Screen No News Is Good News

1943, role: actor , character name: Newscaster
Play in Full Screen The Major and the Minor

1942, role: actor , character name: Mr. Osborne
Play in Full Screen The Man's Angle

1942, role: actor , character name: Joe Doakes
Play in Full Screen Nothing But Nerves

1942, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Keeping in Shape

1942, role: writer
Play in Full Screen I Married a Witch

1942, role: actor , character name: Dr. Dudley White
Play in Full Screen Syncopation

1942, role: actor , character name: Doakes
Play in Full Screen Nothing But Nerves

1942, role: actor , character name: Mr. Benchley
Play in Full Screen Keeping in Shape

1942, role: actor , character name: Lecturer

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Famous quotes by Robert Benchley:

"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony."

"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."

"Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people"

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."

"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."

"Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other."

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

"We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born."

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

"At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands."

"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."

"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted."

"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."

"Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?"

"For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting."

"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."

"After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year."

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TCM Tribute to Robert Benchley

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Robert Benchley, The sky's the limit (1943)

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A comical analysis of sleep and insomnia with Robert Benchley. A man getting into steaming...

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Dr. Benchley lectures the women's club on the unusual but important title-topic Reviewer:...

published: 17 Oct 2016

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Duffy's Tavern (1945) - Bing Crosby, Robert Benchley

The Bing Crosby segment at the end of Duffy's Tavern (1945). Bing, his four sons, Robert B...

published: 19 Nov 2011

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David O. Selznick: 'Your New Producer' (1935) (Robert Benchley)

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Robert Benchley shares his navy experiences with an expert in the United States. HD Stock Footage

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Como Dormir - Métodos Infalíveis Para Acabar Com A Insônia

"Como Dormir" ("How To Sleep") (1935) Documentário Diretor: Nick Grinde Elenco: Robert Be...

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The Treasurer's Report

Classic routine by the great Robert Benchley.

published: 05 Aug 2009

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Robert Benchley - "The Causes Of The Depression" Aka The Caves Of Depression (1930-1931)

Unused / unissued material - no paperwork - dates unclear or unknown Title reads: "Path...

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TCM Tribute to Robert Benchley

published: 21 Mar 2014

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Robert Benchley, The sky's the limit (1943)

Robert Benchley delivering his hilarious speech in The Sky's The Limit (1943), starring Fr...

published: 10 Oct 2009

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Sleeping, 1930's - Film 6993

A comical analysis of sleep and insomnia with Robert Benchley. A man getting into steaming...

published: 10 Nov 2014

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Sex Life Of A Polyp ~ 1928 Comedy ~ Robert benchley

Dr. Benchley lectures the women's club on the unusual but important title-topic Reviewer:...

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Duffy's Tavern (1945) - Bing Crosby, Robert Benchley

The Bing Crosby segment at the end of Duffy's Tavern (1945). Bing, his four sons, Robert B...

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David O. Selznick: 'Your New Producer' (1935) (Robert Benchley)

Robert Benchley has some fun presenting the work of a mysterious producer, who may or may ...

published: 10 Mar 2017

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Robert Benchley shares his navy experiences with an expert in the United States. HD Stock Footage

Link to order this clip: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675031666_American-sailors_Ro...

published: 14 Jul 2014

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Como Dormir - Métodos Infalíveis Para Acabar Com A Insônia

"Como Dormir" ("How To Sleep") (1935) Documentário Diretor: Nick Grinde Elenco: Robert Be...

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With Victoria cited as a name being caught in the crossfire, the consequences of her being badly hurt or worse would be huge for several characters, not least of all her brother Robert. It’s Robert who has left ... Of course, Robert would be left absolutely crushed if his actions inadvertently led to something terrible happening to his sister....

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Robert Benchley

The Treasurer's Report

Robert Benchley - "The Causes Of The Depression" Aka The Caves Of Depression (1930-1931)

TCM Tribute to Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley, The sky's the limit (1943)

Sleeping, 1930's - Film 6993

Sex Life Of A Polyp ~ 1928 Comedy ~ Robert benchley

Duffy's Tavern (1945) - Bing Crosby, Robert Benchley

David O. Selznick: 'Your New Producer' (1935) (Robert Benchley)

Robert Benchley shares his navy experiences with an expert in the United States. HD Stock Footage

Como Dormir - Métodos Infalíveis Para Acabar Com A Insônia

'Robert Benchley' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)

Quotes:

Duffy's Tavern (1945)

Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945)

Quotes:

Show-Business at War (1943)

Music Made Simple (1938)

Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)

Social Register (1934)

Your Technocracy and Mine (1933)

Furnace Trouble (1929)

The Spellbinder (1928)

Benchley, Robert Filmography

Matching books:

Love Conquers All

Famous quotes by Robert Benchley:

"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony."

"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."

"Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people"

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."

"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."

"Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other."

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

"We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born."

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

"At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands."

"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."

"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted."

"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."

"Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?"

"For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting."

"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."

"After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year."

Robert Benchley

ALBUMS

Fierce Pajamas: Selections From an Anthology of Humor Writing by The New Yorker

The Treasurer's Report

Robert Benchley - "The Causes Of The Depression" Aka The Caves Of Depression (1930-1931)

TCM Tribute to Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley, The sky's the limit (1943)

Sleeping, 1930's - Film 6993

Sex Life Of A Polyp ~ 1928 Comedy ~ Robert benchley

Duffy's Tavern (1945) - Bing Crosby, Robert Benchley

David O. Selznick: 'Your New Producer' (1935) (Robert Benchley)

Robert Benchley shares his navy experiences with an expert in the United States. HD Stock Footage

Como Dormir - Métodos Infalíveis Para Acabar Com A Insônia

The Treasurer's Report

Robert Benchley - "The Causes Of The Depression" Aka The Caves Of Depression (1930-1931)

TCM Tribute to Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley, The sky's the limit (1943)

Sleeping, 1930's - Film 6993

Sex Life Of A Polyp ~ 1928 Comedy ~ Robert benchley

Duffy's Tavern (1945) - Bing Crosby, Robert Benchley

David O. Selznick: 'Your New Producer' (1935) (Robert Benchley)

Robert Benchley shares his navy experiences with an expert in the United States. HD Stock Footage

Como Dormir - Métodos Infalíveis Para Acabar Com A Insônia

The Treasurer's Report

Robert Benchley - "The Causes Of The Depression" Aka The Caves Of Depression (1930-1931)

TCM Tribute to Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley, The sky's the limit (1943)

Sleeping, 1930's - Film 6993

Sex Life Of A Polyp ~ 1928 Comedy ~ Robert benchley

Duffy's Tavern (1945) - Bing Crosby, Robert Benchley

David O. Selznick: 'Your New Producer' (1935) (Robert Benchley)

Robert Benchley shares his navy experiences with an expert in the United States. HD Stock Footage