Movies: Robert Benchley
- 1933
Rafter Romance (1933)
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A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts....
- 1938
Opening Day (1938)
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The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day....
- 1945
Snafu (1945)
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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 in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War D...
- 1943
Young and Willing (1943)
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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 the Paramount productions that was sold to United Artists in the early-40's when U.A. was having tro...
- 1939
How to Eat (1939)
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Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock everyman and slightly bumbling character Joe Doakes to dramatize such situations. Situations that c...
- 1944
Janie (1944)
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Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father....
- 1943
Show-Business at War (1943)
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A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
- 1944
Practically Yours (1944)
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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 remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love ...
- 1944
See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
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Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in...
- 1937
Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)
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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 interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment....
- 1926
You'd Be Surprised (1926)
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A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights are turned back on the box is gone, and the district atto...
- 1976
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
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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 numbers....
- 1941
Three Girls About Town (1941)
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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 mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try ...
- 1941
Nice Girl? (1941)
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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 girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tr...
- 1940
Hired Wife (1940)
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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 the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses....
- 1941
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
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A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection....
- 1944
Song of Russia (1944)
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American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-c...
- 1933
Dancing Lady (1933)
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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 get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from ...
- 1944
Her Primitive Man (1944)
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An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen....
- 1946
The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
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A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife....