Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, a newspaper columnist and an actor.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8609 |
| Birthday | 1889-09-14 |
| Place of Birth | Worcester, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As | Роберт Бенчли, Robert Charles Benchley, |
1941
The Reluctant Dragon
6.627/169
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 f...
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The Reluctant Dragon
1942
I Married a Witch
6.9/231
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when...
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I Married a Witch
1941
Nice Girl?
6.4/5
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 gi...
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Nice Girl?
1941
You'll Never Get Rich
6.452/63
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.
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You'll Never Get Rich
1946
Road to Utopia
6.735/49
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 fath...
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Road to Utopia
1943
The Sky's the Limit
6.348/22
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly fall...
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The Sky's the Limit
1933
Dancing Lady
6.886/44
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...
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Dancing Lady
1937
Broadway Melody of 1938
6.6/15
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 Steve...
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Broadway Melody of 1938
1942
The Major and the Minor
7.089/151
Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay half fare home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself i...
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The Major and the Minor
1941
Bedtime Story
5.8/8
A Broadway 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 'worl...
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Bedtime Story
1935
China Seas
6.25/40
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 ris...
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China Seas
1982
Showbiz Goes to War
10/1
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 A...
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Showbiz Goes to War
1944
See Here, Private Hargrove
6.5/2
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic trai...
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See Here, Private Hargrove
1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
6.4/13
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...
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Week-End at the Waldorf
1941
Three Girls About Town
6.5/4
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...
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Three Girls About Town
1942
Syncopation
6.8/6
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
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Syncopation
1940
Hired Wife
6.833/6
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 t...
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Hired Wife
1942
Take a Letter, Darling
6.571/14
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 end...
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Take a Letter, Darling
1943
Young and Willing
5.8/5
A group of young stage hopefuls tries to persuade a theatrical producer to give them their big chance at stardom.
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Young and Willing
1928
The Spellbinder
10/1
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The Spellbinder
1929
Furnace Trouble
10/1
Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.
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Furnace Trouble
1929
Lesson No. 1
9/1
Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.
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Lesson No. 1
1929
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
7/1
Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.
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Stewed, Fried and Boiled
1935
How to Break 90 at Croquet
10/1
Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.
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How to Break 90 at Croquet
1937
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
4.5/8
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 i...
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
1933
Rafter Romance
6.8/13
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
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Rafter Romance
1945
The Stork Club
5.182/11
After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that the disheveled man is a vagrant and goes back to her...
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The Stork Club
1943
Flesh and Fantasy
7.071/21
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 predicts...
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Flesh and Fantasy
1928
The Sex Life of the Polyp
5.125/16
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 t...
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The Sex Life of the Polyp
1936
Piccadilly Jim
6.75/2
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 L...
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Piccadilly Jim
1936
How to Be a Detective
6.875/8
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
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How to Be a Detective
1933
Headline Shooter
6.333/6
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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Headline Shooter
1944
Practically Yours
7/1
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 remembe...
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Practically Yours
1937
Live, Love and Learn
5.6/8
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love at first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his stra...
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Live, Love and Learn
1935
How to Sleep
6.632/19
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 audie...
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How to Sleep
1937
A Night at the Movies
5.889/18
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 more...
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A Night at the Movies
1946
The Bride Wore Boots
6.111/9
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
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The Bride Wore Boots
1928
The Treasurer's Report
5.5/2
Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.
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The Treasurer's Report
1944
Janie
6/6
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
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Janie
1946
Janie Gets Married
7.333/3
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
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Janie Gets Married
1937
How to Start the Day
6.6/5
Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.
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How to Start the Day
1940
Foreign Correspondent
6.957/462
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 a...
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Foreign Correspondent
1945
Kiss and Tell
6.333/6
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 s...
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Kiss and Tell
1945
Pan-Americana
4.143/7
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
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Pan-Americana
2007
The Pixar Story
7.54/249
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 it...
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The Pixar Story
1932
The Sport Parade
5.333/9
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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The Sport Parade
1934
Social Register
5/4
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. Howev...
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Social Register
1939
How to Eat
6.25/4
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...
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How to Eat
1944
Important Business
8/2
Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."
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Important Business
1936
How to Behave
7.75/4
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 Benchle...
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How to Behave
1943
My Tomato
7.5/4
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 inc...
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My Tomato
1936
How to Train a Dog
7.5/4
This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.
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How to Train a Dog
1938
Mental Poise
6.5/4
In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.
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Mental Poise
1937
The Romance of Digestion
7/3
A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and di...
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The Romance of Digestion
1945
Snafu
7/2
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...
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Snafu
1939
An Hour for Lunch
6.25/4
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
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An Hour for Lunch
1938
How to Figure Income Tax
7/3
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.
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How to Figure Income Tax
1936
How to Vote
6.8/4
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
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How to Vote
1944
Why Daddy?
5.5/8
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 n...
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Why Daddy?
1944
Her Primitive Man
7.5/2
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
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Her Primitive Man
1939
See Your Doctor
6.5/6
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 ha...
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See Your Doctor
1940
Home Movies
7/3
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
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Home Movies
1945
It's in the Bag!
6.3/7
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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It's in the Bag!
1942
Nothing But Nerves
4.5/2
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 h...
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Nothing But Nerves
1938
How to Read
5.385/13
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
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How to Read
1944
The National Barn Dance
7/1
This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.
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The National Barn Dance
1944
Song of Russia
6.167/6
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in l...
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Song of Russia
1945
Boogie Woogie
10/1
While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.
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Boogie Woogie
1940
That Inferior Feeling
6.1/8
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).
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That Inferior Feeling
1938
How to Watch Football
5.667/6
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.
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How to Watch Football
1939
Home Early
8/2
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
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Home Early
1945
Hollywood Victory Caravan
5.6/10
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.
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Hollywood Victory Caravan
1945
Duffy's Tavern
6.4/8
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
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Duffy's Tavern
1933
Your Technocracy and Mine
10/1
Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.
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Your Technocracy and Mine
1938
How to Raise a Baby
7.3/3
American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.
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How to Raise a Baby
1941
How to Take a Vacation
8.333/3
In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.
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How to Take a Vacation
1935
David O. Selznick: Your New Producer
10/1
Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.
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David O. Selznick: Your New Producer
1941
The Forgotten Man
9/2
Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.
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The Forgotten Man
1941
Waiting for Baby
0/0
Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.
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Waiting for Baby
1942
Keeping in Shape
4.5/2
Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
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Keeping in Shape
1938
The Courtship of the Newt
7/2
Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.
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The Courtship of the Newt
1939
Dark Magic
6.75/4
A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.
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Dark Magic
1938
An Evening Alone
7.333/3
Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.
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An Evening Alone
1939
How to Sub-Let
5.75/4
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
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How to Sub-Let
1938
Opening Day
6.5/4
The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
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Opening Day
1939
The Day of Rest
5.8/4
Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.
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The Day of Rest
1943
No News Is Good News
6.667/3
Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.
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No News Is Good News
1943
Show-Business at War
7/4
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Show-Business at War
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
7/44
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 num...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1940
The Trouble with Husbands
6.333/6
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 a...
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The Trouble with Husbands
1941
Crime Control
5.5/6
A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders tha...
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Crime Control
1942
The Witness
6.6/5
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...
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The Witness
1938
Music Made Simple
6.5/2
Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.
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Music Made Simple
1987
The Ten-Year Lunch
6.545/11
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 grou...
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The Ten-Year Lunch
2004
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
8.8/6
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 doci...
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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
7.167/6
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1936
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
4.667/3
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...
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
The Causes Of The Depression
0/0
Mr Benchley first expounded his interesting theory in December 1931, and as it remains the clearest and most searching analysis of the situation yet m...
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The Causes Of The Depression
1945
I'm a Civilian Here Myself
10/1
A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.
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I'm a Civilian Here Myself
1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
0/0
Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute coll...
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