Said to be cool How to Start the Day movie
Movie Premier in 1937.
Copyright Holder: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, 1937 (on print)
Certificates: USA:Approved
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Comedy, Short
Languages: English
Runtimes: 10
Sound Mix: Mono
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.37 : 1
Release Dates: USA:11 September 1937
In movie played:
Robert Benchley (actor)
Articles: "Dictionnaire du Cinéma/Les Acteurs" (France), 1996, pg. pg. 90, by: Jean Tulard, "Benchley, robert"
Interred at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA, Father of 'Nathaniel Benchley' (qv), who wrote the novel "The Off-Islanders", which became the film _The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966)_ (qv)., Grandfather of 'Nat Benchley' (qv) and 'Peter Benchley' (qv), author of "Jaws."., Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. pg. 40-41. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387, The town of Benchley, Texas, is named after his grandfather, who founded it., Is portrayed by 'Campbell Scott' (qv) in _Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)_ (qv), Proposed the following epitaph for his tombstone although it was not ultimately used: "This is all above my head.".
Biographical Movies: _Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin (1998) (V)_ (qv)
Death Notes: New York City, New York, USA (cerebral hemorrhage)
Books: Babette Rosmond. _Robert Benchley: His Life and Good Times._ Reprint of 1970 edition. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1989. ISBN 1557781699, 'Nathaniel Benchley' (qv). _The Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of his Favorites (orig. pub. by Harper & Bros. 1954)._ Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1983. ISBN 0226042189, 'Nathaniel Benchley' (qv) (foreword by 'Robert E. Sherwood (I)' (qv) ).. _Robert Benchley; A Biography._ New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955., Norris Wilson Yates. _Robert Benchley._ Twayne Publishers, 1968. ISBN 080570048X, Gordon E. Ernst. _Robert Benchley: An Annotated Bibliography._ CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. ISBN 031329321X, Robert Redding. _Starring Robert Benchley._ Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1975., Wes D. Gehring. _"Mr. B" or Comforting Thoughts About the Bison: Critical Biography of Robert Benchley._ Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. ISBN 0313252424, Billy Altman. _Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Roberlt Benchley._ New York: W.W. Norton, 1997., Charles Getchell (ed.). _Benchley at the Theatre._ Ipswich, MA: Ipswich Press, 1985., Billy Altman. _Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley._ New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
Although next to his personal testimony Benchley be not a little a biographer and not quite an thespian, he manage to become one of the best-known humorist and comedian of his circumstance. As a Harvard undergraduate, Benchley contribute his opening slapstick comedian performing, impersonate a befuddled after-dinner diplomat. The slap made him a campus prominence -- and remain in Benchley's repertoire all for the balance of his go. (Landing the posting of editor of the Harvard Lampoon was the other tine aloft of his academy exchange.) As a post-graduate correspondent, linking continual firings and other disruption, Benchley made his dupe using a theater doubting thomas and as writer of whimsical musings against the vagaries of capable of date life. He serve briefly as managing editor of the magazine Vanity Fair, where on earth his lieutenants be 'Dorothy Parker (I)' (qv) and 'Robert E. Sherwood (I)' (qv), but he quit to disturbance Parker's barrage of bullets. (Benchley, Parker and Sherwood were among the regulars at the so-called Algonquin Round Table, a broad circular of New York wits that also integrated 'Harpo Marx' (qv) and 'George S. Kaufman' (qv)). Benchley was among the first contributor to The New Yorker, where his industry influenced other writers -- such as 'E.B. White (I)' (qv) and 'James Thurber' (qv)
Quotes: Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing., Tell us your phobias, and we'll tell you what you are afraid of., Every boy should have a dog, for a dog teaches a boy three valuable traits: fidelity, perseverance and to turn around three times before lying down., In America there are two classes of travel - First Class, and with children. Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria., In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders: we have to fight home competition., There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest . . . and there is no such place as Bucharest, either., It took me 15 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., Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony., The only real cure for a hangover is death., If you'll excuse me, I'd like to get out of these wet things and into a dry martini.
Birth Notes: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Salary History: _The Treasurer's Report (1928)_ (qv)::$2000, _The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)_ (qv)::$5500, _The Spellbinder (1928/I)_ (qv)::$5500, _Stewed, Fried and Boiled (1929)_ (qv)::$5500, _Lesson No. 1 (1929)_ (qv)::$5500, _Furnace Trouble (1929)_ (qv)::$5500, _You'd Be Surprised (1926)_ (qv)::$500/week, _The Bride Wore Boots (1946)_ (qv)::$1750/week, _Janie Gets Married (1946)_ (qv)::$1750/week, _Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)_ (qv)::$1750/week, _The Stork Club (1945)_ (qv)::$1750/week, _Snafu (1945)_ (qv)::$1750/week, _Duffy's Tavern (1945)_ (qv)::$1750/week, _A Social Celebrity (1926)_ (qv)::$2000, _The American Venus (1926)_ (qv)::$2000
Other Works: Twelve volumes of short stories collected., Book: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or David Copperfield," 1928., Book: "After 1903--What?", 1938., Book: "Benchley Beside Himself", Book: "From Bed to Worse, or Confusing Thoughts About the Bison," 1934., Book: "Inside Benchley", Book: "Love Conquers All," 1922., Book: "My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew," 1936., Book: "No Poems, or Around the World Backwards and Sideways," 1932., Book: "Of All Things," 1921., Book: "Pluck and Luck," 1925., Book: "The Early Worm," 1927., Book: "The Treasurer's Report and Other Aspects of Community Singing," 1930.
Birth Name: Benchley, Robert Charles
Spouse: 'Gertrude Darling' (6 June 1914 - 21 November 1945) (his death)
Death Date: 21 November 1945
Portrayed: _Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)_ (qv)
Birth Date: 15 September 1889
Jack Chertok (producer)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Death Date: 14 June 1995
Other Works: In 1957, he produced a pilot all for a proposed anthology TV round call "The Family Tree." Each subdivision would individual tell the saga of a appendage of a extensive common clan, even as a result no framework optioned the series., In 1956, he produced two pilots for proposed TV sitcoms starring Jan Sterling. In the first, "Publicity Girl," Ms. Sterling played a publicity agent and in the second, she played a orange juice company worker., In 1957, he produced in a comedy pilot for NBC about the misadventures of an extremely reluctant private detective called, "The Reluctant Eye" starring Bobby Van. The series was never produced, however., In 1960, he produced an unsold pilot starring Jan Clayton called, "The Brown Horse" about a woman trying to pay for her daughter's college tuition by working in a San Francisco restuarant., In 1966, he produced an unsold pilot for a proposed CBS adventure series called "The Iron Man." The pilot starred Tom Simcox and Mike Whitney as railroad workers in the American West., In 1966, he produced an unsold comedy pilot called "Rambling Wreck from Discotheque" where Paul Dooley starred as a TV writer who reluctantly agrees to produce a rock-and-roll television series aimed at the teeny-bopper set., In 1959, he produced an unsold pilot called "Trace Hunter". This hour-long western was about a sheriff and his friend a gunslinger-turned minister.
Birth Date: 13 July 1906
Robert Lees (writer)
Articles: "Los Angeles Times" (USA), 5 July 2004, pg. E1+E20, by: Martin Miller, "Trusting, to the end", "The New York Times" (USA), 15 June 2004, pg. A20, by: Reuters, "(National Briefing) California: Intruder Kills 2", "The Houston Chronicle" (USA), 14 June 2004, by: Reuters, "Man held in murders of LA Screenwriter, neighbor"
He be blacklisted bounded by Hollywood during the McCarthy age and consequently uninterrupted in the 1950s and 1960s to be in contact in favour of motion diagram and television beneath the heading of "J.E. Selby", being authoritative for episode of _"Rawhide" (1959)_ (qv) and _"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955)_ (qv)., In 1999 he had a prominent role in protesting the decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to award director 'Elia Kazan' (qv) a lifetime achievement Oscar. Kazan named names during the McCarthy era and continued to work while others were blacklisted., He pleaded the 5th Amendment while testifying at the House Un-American Activities committee and was blacklisted as a result., 'Frederic I. Rinaldo' (qv) was his writing partner for 18 years until they were blacklisted in the early '50s., Was an atheist and a staunch Democrat., He was found murdered in his apartment. He was decapitated. His murderer also killed his neighbor, a Mr. Engelson. Because this man was on the phone at the time, the police were alerted quickly. According to the Associated Press, Kevin Lee Graff, 27, was arrested for the murders on June 14, 2004., Grandpa of actress Tania Verafield.
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA (homicide)
Birth Notes: San Francisco, California, USA
Spouse: 'Abel, Jean' (? - 1982) (her death); 2 children
Death Date: 13 June 2004
Interviews: "Starlog" (USA), November 1990, Iss. 160, pg. 64-70, by: Mark Phillips, "They Wrote for Giants Part Two"
Birth Date: 10 July 1912
Frederic I. Rinaldo (writer)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: New York City, New York, USA
Death Date: 22 June 1992
For 18 years was writing partner with Robert Lees, until they were balcklisted in the early '50s.
Birth Date: 27 September 1913
Roy Rowland (director)
Death Notes: Orange, California, USA
Birth Notes: New York City, New York, USA
Death Date: 29 June 1995
Father of actor 'Steve Rowland (I)' (qv)
Birth Date: 31 December 1910
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