Comments on: Sweet Old Bob Benchley

By: TCM's Classic Movie Blog

TCM's Classic Movie Blog — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:54:46 +0000

[...] to comment on the narrative, while the self-referential asides and gags have been increased. (Click here for a post about Benchley by our own Medusa Morlock.) For example, while traveling through the [...]

By: baboomska mcgeesk

baboomska mcgeesk — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:36:05 +0000

Benchley’s best writing was compiled in a book “My Ten Years In A Quandary (And How They Grew)”… This book is my personal favorite, although all of his books contained treasures.
Hollywood never appreciated or made use of the more “insane” or “mad” aspects of his humor, preferring to play it safe with more situation comedy. For example, in his short film “How To Figure Income Tax” he had a penguin wander into the shot, without explanation. The studio cut the bit because they thought it was “too weird”… If Benchley had been allowed full rein, he would have been as wild as Monty Python.

By: TCM’s Classic Movie Blog

TCM’s Classic Movie Blog — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:46:13 +0000

[...] previously.” Throughout the 1920s, the members of this band of friends included her friend Robert Benchley, Robert E. Sherwood, Alexander Woolcott, Edna Ferber, and George S. Kauffman, among many others. [...]

By: chan. welsh

chan. welsh — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:19:25 +0000

I remembered, watching in the '70's, a movie about a statue of Mary coming to life and serving as a nun. Can anyone tell me the name of that movie, please?

By: cso

cso — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:07:40 +0000

I have never quite reconciled Robert Benchley's bumbling average Joe persona in his "How to" series with cutting dry humour of the stamp of Dorthy Parker. I'd like to read some of his writing to get a different take on his work. Do you have any favorites?