Robert Benchley
کے لیے جانا جاتا: Acting
سالگرہ: 1889-09-14
مقام پیدائش: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
اس نام سے بہی جانا جاتاہے: Роберт Бенчли, Robert Charles Benchley
The Reluctant Dragon
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be...
رہائی : 1941.06.19مقبولیت : 11.857
I Married a Witch
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find...
رہائی : 1942.10.30مقبولیت : 7.839
Nice Girl?
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice...
رہائی : 1941.02.21مقبولیت : 10.385
You'll Never Get Rich
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.
رہائی : 1941.09.25مقبولیت : 3.809
Road to Utopia
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...
رہائی : 1946.02.27مقبولیت : 3.516
The Sky's the Limit
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly...
رہائی : 1943.07.13مقبولیت : 2.434
Dancing Lady
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...
رہائی : 1933.11.24مقبولیت : 4.172
Broadway Melody of 1938
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces...
رہائی : 1937.08.20مقبولیت : 2.877
The Major and the Minor
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old...
رہائی : 1942.09.16مقبولیت : 6.895
Bedtime Story
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...
رہائی : 1941.12.25مقبولیت : 2.302
China Seas
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only...
رہائی : 1935.08.09مقبولیت : 7.159
Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the...
رہائی : 1982.12.31مقبولیت : 3.01
See Here, Private Hargrove
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...
رہائی : 1944.03.18مقبولیت : 2.507
Week-End at the Waldorf
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...
رہائی : 1945.10.04مقبولیت : 2.799
Three Girls About Town
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...
رہائی : 1941.10.23مقبولیت : 3.851
Syncopation
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
رہائی : 1942.05.22مقبولیت : 1.886
Hired Wife
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...
رہائی : 1940.09.13مقبولیت : 2.33
Take a Letter, Darling
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...
رہائی : 1942.05.06مقبولیت : 3.436
Young and Willing
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of...
رہائی : 1943.02.05مقبولیت : 2.667
Furnace Trouble
Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.
رہائی : 1929.02.04مقبولیت : 0.438
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.
رہائی : 1929.03.29مقبولیت : 2.689
How to Break 90 at Croquet
Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.
رہائی : 1935.06.04مقبولیت : 1.37
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more...
رہائی : 1937.10.02مقبولیت : 2.234
Rafter Romance
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
رہائی : 1933.09.01مقبولیت : 6.909
The Stork Club
Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry...
رہائی : 1945.12.28مقبولیت : 7.609
Flesh and Fantasy
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who...
رہائی : 1943.10.29مقبولیت : 6.199
The Sex Life of the Polyp
Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able...
رہائی : 1928.07.25مقبولیت : 2.516
Piccadilly Jim
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...
رہائی : 1936.08.14مقبولیت : 3.658
How to Be a Detective
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
رہائی : 1936.10.17مقبولیت : 2.909
Headline Shooter
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
رہائی : 1933.07.28مقبولیت : 2.593
Practically Yours
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...
رہائی : 1944.12.20مقبولیت : 2.902
Live, Love and Learn
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...
رہائی : 1937.10.29مقبولیت : 6.054
How to Sleep
A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...
رہائی : 1935.09.14مقبولیت : 3.416
A Night at the Movies
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...
رہائی : 1937.11.06مقبولیت : 1.961
The Bride Wore Boots
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
رہائی : 1946.06.05مقبولیت : 2.565
The Treasurer's Report
Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.
رہائی : 1928.03.11مقبولیت : 0.721
Janie
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
رہائی : 1944.09.02مقبولیت : 1.894
Janie Gets Married
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
رہائی : 1946.06.22مقبولیت : 1.112
How to Start the Day
Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.
رہائی : 1937.11.11مقبولیت : 1.802
Foreign Correspondent
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...
رہائی : 1940.08.16مقبولیت : 12.683
Kiss and Tell
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly...
رہائی : 1945.10.04مقبولیت : 2.381
Pan-Americana
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
رہائی : 1945.03.22مقبولیت : 3.559
The Pixar Story
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of...
رہائی : 2007.08.28مقبولیت : 27.033
The Sport Parade
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
رہائی : 1932.11.11مقبولیت : 5.716
Social Register
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....
رہائی : 1934.03.10مقبولیت : 2.67
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...
رہائی : 1961.12.31مقبولیت : 2.425
How to Eat
Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...
رہائی : 1939.06.10مقبولیت : 1.531
Important Business
Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."
رہائی : 1944.04.29مقبولیت : 0.206
How to Behave
Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...
رہائی : 1936.04.25مقبولیت : 1.503
My Tomato
Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...
رہائی : 1943.12.04مقبولیت : 0.919
How to Train a Dog
This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.
رہائی : 1936.07.01مقبولیت : 1.019
Mental Poise
In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.
رہائی : 1938.12.10مقبولیت : 2.974
The Romance of Digestion
A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...
رہائی : 1937.03.13مقبولیت : 0.989
Snafu
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle...
رہائی : 1945.11.22مقبولیت : 0.941
An Hour for Lunch
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
رہائی : 1939.03.17مقبولیت : 0.812
How to Figure Income Tax
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.
رہائی : 1938.03.01مقبولیت : 1.687
How to Vote
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
رہائی : 1936.09.04مقبولیت : 1.753
Why Daddy?
When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...
رہائی : 1944.05.20مقبولیت : 3.121
Her Primitive Man
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
رہائی : 1944.05.29مقبولیت : 2.02
See Your Doctor
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...
رہائی : 1939.12.16مقبولیت : 0.825
Home Movies
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
رہائی : 1940.02.17مقبولیت : 1.723
It's in the Bag!
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
رہائی : 1945.04.21مقبولیت : 3.935
Nothing But Nerves
After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink...
رہائی : 1942.01.02مقبولیت : 0.874
How to Read
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
رہائی : 1938.08.27مقبولیت : 3.65
The National Barn Dance
This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.
رہائی : 1944.09.24مقبولیت : 1.04
Song of Russia
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...
رہائی : 1944.02.10مقبولیت : 2.361
Boogie Woogie
While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.
رہائی : 1945.06.15مقبولیت : 7.188
That Inferior Feeling
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).
رہائی : 1940.01.20مقبولیت : 0.534
How to Watch Football
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.
رہائی : 1938.10.07مقبولیت : 0.814
Home Early
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
رہائی : 1939.05.26مقبولیت : 0.675
Hollywood Victory Caravan
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
رہائی : 1945.09.30مقبولیت : 3.416
Duffy's Tavern
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
رہائی : 1945.09.28مقبولیت : 2.101
Your Technocracy and Mine
Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.
رہائی : 1933.03.31مقبولیت : 1.055
How to Raise a Baby
American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.
رہائی : 1938.07.01مقبولیت : 1.47
The Forgotten Man
Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.
رہائی : 1941.05.22مقبولیت : 1.703
David O. Selznick: Your New Producer
Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.
رہائی : 1935.01.01مقبولیت : 0.596
Keeping in Shape
Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
رہائی : 1942.06.22مقبولیت : 1.262
How to Take a Vacation
In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.
رہائی : 1941.10.09مقبولیت : 0.813
Waiting for Baby
Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.
رہائی : 1941.01.24مقبولیت : 0.917
The Courtship of the Newt
Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.
رہائی : 1938.07.22مقبولیت : 0.832
An Evening Alone
Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.
رہائی : 1938.05.13مقبولیت : 2.033
Opening Day
The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
رہائی : 1938.11.12مقبولیت : 1.248
No News Is Good News
Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.
رہائی : 1943.12.18مقبولیت : 1.138
How to Sub-Let
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
رہائی : 1939.01.29مقبولیت : 1.835
Dark Magic
A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.
رہائی : 1939.05.12مقبولیت : 0.377
Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
رہائی : 1943.05.21مقبولیت : 3.899
That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...
رہائی : 1976.05.16مقبولیت : 8.277
The Witness
As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...
رہائی : 1942.01.01مقبولیت : 1.023
The Trouble with Husbands
Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...
رہائی : 1940.11.08مقبولیت : 1.304
Crime Control
A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...
رہائی : 1941.04.11مقبولیت : 1.885
Music Made Simple
Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.
رہائی : 1938.03.16مقبولیت : 0.878
The Ten-Year Lunch
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table...
رہائی : 1987.09.28مقبولیت : 2.502
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a...
رہائی : 2004.05.31مقبولیت : 3.397
The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
رہائی : 1964.09.02مقبولیت : 4.038
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...
رہائی : 1936.08.05مقبولیت : 3.955