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	Encyclopedia: Robert Benchley
		Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts â“ November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, newspaper columnist, film actor, and drama editor.
		In 1928, Benchley starred in The Treasurer's Report, a short comedy film that was possibly the first all-talkie film shown in theaters (as opposed to The Jazz Singer (1927), which was primarily silent, and The Lights of New York (later in 1928), the first full-length talkie feature film).
		On his passing in 1945, Robert Benchley was interred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Benchley (1266 words)

	Worcester Area Writers - Robert Benchley - Bio
		Benchley's younger years were spent during a time that most called the "Gay Nineties," a period of enjoyment for many in America during that decade.
		Robert Benchley died on November 21, 1945 at the age of 56 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
		Robert Benchley was one of the pioneering humorists in his field.
	www.wpi.edu /Academics/Library/Archives/WAuthors/benchley/bio.html (1135 words)

	The Romance of Digestion
		ROBERT BENCHLEY Now first you must know that those tiny, hard edges of bone, which you must have noticed a hundred times in the front of your mouth, are teeth and are put there for a very definite purpose.
		ROBERT BENCHLEY Now these brave little sentinels, the teeth, which are in our mouths, take the food as it comes through the air -- in case you're snapping at a butterfly -- or from the fork and separate it into its component parts -- land, air, and water.
		ROBERT BENCHLEY The food is then put on a conveyor, where it is taken down to the pressing machines, which are situated on the third floor.
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	Benchley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Benchley not only prepared the way for his successor, A. Liebling, but also wrote some of the magazine’s strongest political commentary as he questioned newspapers’ coverage of such matters as the Lindbergh kidnapping, peace conferences, red scares, the Roosevelt elections, and the Supreme Court packing struggle.
		Although most of Robert Benchley’s Wayward Press commentaries are essentially tough-minded and disillusioned criticisms of both contemporary journalistic practices and the contradictions of the American scene, Benchley employs many of the humorous approaches that make his memoirs and parodies some of the finest humorous prose of his time.
		Benchley remarks that in London papers "the words ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ are as common in their pages as ‘swell’ and ‘punko’ are in these" (July 9, 1932).
	www.compedit.com /benchley.htm (5018 words)

	Robert Benchley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Benchley was awarded a star on the (Click link for more info and facts about Walk of Fame) Walk of Fame in (The film industry of the United States) Hollywood.
		He is the father of author (Click link for more info and facts about Nathaniel Benchley) Nathaniel Benchley and grandfather of (Holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object) Jaws writer (Click link for more info and facts about Peter Benchley) Peter Benchley.
		On his passing in 1945, Robert Benchley was interred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery in (Click link for more info and facts about Nantucket, Massachusetts) Nantucket, Massachusetts.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_benchley.htm (456 words)

	Robert Benchley: A Profile in Humor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Benchley feared they would reach the Hudson and managed to divert them in a southerly direction, until all found themselves on 12th Street and headed for the docks.
		Benchley with the news that her oldest son was dead.
		Benchley still averred that nothing unusual had happened, but as the doctor was preparing to leave Benchley called to him: “Wait a minute.
	www.davidpietrusza.com /benchley.html (1882 words)

	Benchley
		Robert Benchley was a funny man, and his work is arguably the finest in American humor.
		Nathaniel "Nat" Benchley (Robert's grandson) will be performing in "Benchley Despite Himself" on March 9, 2004 at the General Society of Tradesmen and Mechanics in New York City.(20 West 44th St., New York, N. Kino Video has released a video of several of Benchley's early film shorts, including the classic "Treasurer's Report".
		Premiere of Benchley Despite Himself, a play about Benchley written by his grandson, Nathaniel Robert Benchley (not to be confused with his son Nathaniel Goddard Benchley).
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	Robert Benchley
		Benchley began working in movies in 1928, with a reprise of The Treasurer's Report in one of the earliest short films to feature sound.
		Robert Benchley, who once said, "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous," died on November 21, 1945, at the peak of his fame.
		Benchley's son, Nathanial, was a well-regarded novelist and children's book author, while his grandson, Peter, later became famous as author of the book that inspired the film, Jaws.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-091504-benchley.html (725 words)

	Powell's Books - The Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites by Robert C Benchley
		Robert Benchley once described himself as a man at whom pigeons sneered, but his sketches and articles, published in periodicals like Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time.
		The Benchley Roundup is made up of selections Benchley's son, Nathaniel, regarded as those "which seem to stand up best over the years," a smorgasbord of the most endearing and enduring pieces from the pen of one of American's funniest-and most penetrating-wits.
		Robert C. Benchley (1889-1945), a premier humorist of his time and member of the Algonquin Round Table, wrote for the New York World and New York Tribune Graphic as well as many other periodicals; his work was widely syndicated and anthologized.
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	Reviews of American Century Theater shows
		In a prolific and varied career as drama critic, humorist, actor and screen personality, Robert Benchley was a master wag, living literally by his wit as he made his way from the pages of the New Yorker to the back lots of Hollywood.
		Robert Benchley's most famous bit is "The Treasurer's Report," which details the hilariously inept dealings of an unnamed charity.
		In life, his grandson reflects, Benchley used alcohol for its "diversionary powers." He was "a walking series of contradictions, a finger-shaking teetotaler who drank himself to death" and a family man who spent most of his later years 3,000 miles from his wife and sons.
	www.americancentury.org /reviews_nat.htm (763 words)

	Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		While he lived, Robert Benchley was a household name--writer, actor, critic, and wit, Benchley was lionized in the pages of the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and the New York Tribune and appeared in countless Hollywood films, some of which he wrote himself.
		Benchley was a great improviser and an irresistible talent in print (penning 12 books of essays), on the radio, and on the silver screen, appearing in 40 feature films as well as in award-winning short works of his own creation.
		In this sympathetic and witty biography, Billy Altman explores the man behind the mirth as he chronicles Benchley's journey from the glittering lights of Broadway and the dim ones in the rollicking speakeasies of New York during prohibition, to the infamous Garden of Allah apartments and the glamorously decadent Hollywood of the 1930s and 1940s.
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	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Screw the Algonquin
		The video, which features literary raconteurs Robert Benchley, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Alexander Woollcott, takes us back to the twenties, when Manhattan’s grip on popular culture was even more powerful than it is now, and the common people were quite willing to be entertained and even dictated to by their betters.
		Benchley, Stewart, and Woollcott were well-known writers for newspapers and magazines in New York during the twenties, and had college degrees when the average American scarcely made it out of junior high.
		The remaining Benchley pieces, from the late thirties and early forties, rely heavily on lame husband/wife gags, and are pretty damn grim.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /25/algonquin.html (2026 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Laughter's Gentle Soul
		An original member of the Algonquin Round Table, Robert Benchley was known to readers of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Life, Collier's, and other publications from the twenties through the mid-forties as drama critic, essayist, book reviewer, and, above all, as humorist.
		Benchley was one of the chief architects of what his friend Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story) called "crazy humor," which one writer called "mental joyriding" and another "stuff that just sprung from a fertile, open-minded imagination."
		Benchley on himself as a writer: "I do not think of myself as a writer in the technical sense of the word.
	www.bookpage.com /9705bp/nonfiction/laughtersgentlesoul.html (375 words)

	Gehrig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robert Benchley (1889-1945) inundated the public with his comic antihero from every conceivable source: syndicated comedy columnist, droll drama critic, comedic feature film actor/writer, and comedian of stage, screen (his own short subjects), and radio.
		Benchley would be to say that ‘he occupies a unique position in American humor.’ He occupies nothing of the sort.
		Benchley himself observed in a comic profile of H. Wells that he was bemusingly put off by the celebrated author’s ongoingly gung-ho attempt to involve the reader in his latest solution to global problems: "I personally have but little facility for world-repairing.
	www.compedit.com /gehrig.htm (3081 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Benchley Roundup : A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of his Favorites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robert Benchley's wit appears effortless--it is a blend of autobiography, satire, the inconsequential, and the sudden surprise.
		Robert Benchley, who died in 1945, wielded an extremely dangerous sense of humor that tragically took the lives of many of his contemporaries.
		What one notices about Benchley is that he really isn't quite so gentle and affectionate in his humor as those who remember him say--he was the original master of what he termed the "dementia praecox" (crazy written humor basically)and when he applies this to ordinary life or parodies bad writing he can be quite cutting.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226042189?v=glance (1476 words)

	S. T. Karnick on Robert Benchley on National Review Online
		Benchley is best known for his New Yorker humor essays and his 46 short, comical films made for Hollywood studios, such as How to Sleep (for which he won an Academy Award), The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928), The Courtship of a Newt (1938), and How to Take a Vacation (1941).
		Benchley's essay on W. Dubois's book Darkwater is an excellent entry into this serious side of the humorist's thinking, as he mockingly notes the great amount of progress still to be achieved in American race relations.
		Benchley was in many ways the dean of American humorists until his death in 1945 at the height of his fame.
	www.nationalreview.com /karnick/karnick200506160745.asp (1246 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is told through the story of one of America’s premiere humorists, a member of the fabled Algonquin Round Table in New York and a habitué of the Garden of Allah in Hollywood.
		Robert Benchley made his mark in the numerous magazines in New York in the early 1920’s, rose to stardom on the stage in various revues and wrote and starred in the first all-talking film in 1928.
		Written and performed by Robert’s grandson, Nat, the show has entertained audiences in formats ranging from 25 minutes to a 90-minute examination of Robert’s life and legacy and the accomplishments of his various descendants.
	nrbench.home.mindspring.com (436 words)

	AllRefer.com - Robert Charles Benchley (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Benchley was known for a series of short satirical films that he wrote, directed, and acted in himself.
		His books, which are rich in anecdotes and clever interpretations of everyday situations, include Of All Things (1921), My Ten Years in a Quandary (1936), and Benchley beside Himself (1943).
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Robert Charles Benchley
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	Classic Movies : presented by ClassicMovies.COM
		Benchley gives his famous "how to" lecture on how to have a relaxing...
		In his continuing examination of the battle of the sexes, Benchley concludes that it's not the husbands, but the wives who are at...
		You won't be after laughing at Benchley's hilarious explanation of why you've been that way and what you can do...
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	Alex Robinson - Dorthy Parker and Robert Benchley
		Benchley started out as a writer but wound up in Hollywood--a sitcom character before there were sitcoms ("It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.") Parker's short stories always dark and cutting, while Benchely's essays
		Even their deaths had ironic twists: Benchely didn't taste alcohol until he was 31 years old, but died at the age of 56 from liver failure (he made up for lost time quickly!).
		Parker, on the other hand, attempted suicide at least three times and was an even harder drinker than her beloved Benchley, yet she lived to be 74 - outliving virtually all of her Algonquin roundtable friends.
	www.digitalmedusa.com /sgettis/robinson1.html (265 words)

	Kino Film: Robert Benchley And The Knights Of The Algonquin
		Robert Benchley And The Knights Of The Algonquin
		Benchley's amusingly inept lectures were soon mimicked by Donald Ogden Stewart, who would earn an Oscar for his screenplay of The Philadelphia Story, and later be fllisted for his Communist associations.
		Benchley's wry filmic explorations of the headaches of everyday married life (illustrated with brief vignettes that reveal his gift for slapstick and impeccable comic timing) exhibit the literary acumen and clever insight that made him one of the best-loved humorists of the 20th Century.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?film_id=258 (306 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: Humor: Benchley, Robert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Benchley Despite Himself · cached · Selected monologues and other works edited and acted by the humorist's grandson, Nat Benchley.
		Robert Benchley Society · cached · Informal group founded in 2003 in Boston, including scholars as well as those who enjoy meeting for drinks and talking about the writer.
		Bohemian Ink: Robert Benchley · cached · Capsule biography with photo, a few quotations, and extensive links on the writer and his associates, from an e-zine with a beatnik perspective.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=1242065 (120 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Robert Benchley
		Benchley won an Academy Award for one of the comedy shorts he wrote and starred in.
		Benchley was also a member in good standing of the Algonquin Circle in Manhattan and a longtime resident of the Garden of Allah in Hollywood.
		When he was working in Hollywood, Benchley most often resided in a bungalow at the Garden of Allah, which was the favorite lodging place of visiting actors, writers, and "hangers-on." The Garden was torn down decades ago to make way for a bank.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200090 (756 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - Washington, D.C. - Benchley Despite Himself - 2/11/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Benchley's grandfather was Robert Benchley, who made his mark as a performer, writer and member of the infamous Algonquin Round Table.
		Benchley also spends a great deal of time focused on Robert's famous friends such as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.
		Benchley is a fine actor and carries the show quite well.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/dc/dc84.html (354 words)

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