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Jun 27, 2024 · For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. Robert Benchley. (1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist. America Places Waiting.
Jun 20, 2024 · Benchley's Cameo: Peter Benchley, the author of the original novel, makes a cameo as a news reporter on the beach. Universal Studios Tour: A mechanical shark from the film became a staple attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood's backlot tour.
Jul 9, 2024 · Humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor Robert Charles Benchley is born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He starred in the 1941 Disney feature film The Reluctant Dragon, giving a loose tour of the then-new Walt Disney Studios facility in Burbank, California. Benchley is best remembered for his contributions to The New Yorker,
Jul 3, 2024 · Everyday for six days a week, the likes of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, John Peter Toohey (among 8 other founders) would have their “board meetings” in what is today known as the Oak Room.
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Jun 24, 2024 · “An Eminently Safe Citizen”: Robert Benchley on “The Making of a Red” more... less... "The climate of repression established in the name of wartime security during World War I continued after the war as the U.S. government focused on communists, Bolsheviks, and “reds.”
Jun 20, 2024 · When womanising impresario Martin (Robert Benchley, Foreign Correspondent) tasks choreographer Robert (Astaire, Top Hat) with helping him woo headstrong dancer Sheila (Hayworth, The Lady from Shanghai), a series of comic misunderstandings – involving Martin's wife (Frieda Inescort, Pride and Prejudice) and Sheila's fiancé (John ...
Jul 1, 2024 · The New Yorker’s contributors have included such well-known literary figures as S.J. Perelman, Robert Benchley, Ogden Nash, E.B. White, John O’Hara, Edmund Wilson, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Rebecca West, Dorothy Parker, Alice Munro, Jane Kramer, Woody Allen, John McPhee, and Milan Kundera.
5 days ago · Friends of Ross’ and fellow Round Tablers Dorothy Parker, Ralph Barton, Alexander Woollcott, Ring Lardner, and Robert Benchley were some of the first contributors to the magazine.
Jul 9, 2024 · One night in the late 1930s, Case found himself with an unexpected visitor to the hotel—a stray cat. Case took the rugged, ginger feline in, named him Rusty and thus began the tradition...
Jul 9, 2024 · Jaws, American suspense and horror film, released in 1975, that was directed by Steven Spielberg and is considered the first summer blockbuster. Based on the 1974 novel of the same name by author Peter Benchley, it tells the story of a great white shark that terrorizes a beach resort town. The film.
