Robert Benchley
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Filmography
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The Reluctant Dragon
(1941)Robert Benchley gives a behind-the-scenes look at how animation is created.

The Stork Club
(1945)A hat-check girl at the famed New York Stork Club rescues who she believes to be an elderly tramp from drowning and winds up a millionaire.
The Sport Parade
(1932)Dartmouth football heroes Johnny Baker (William Gargan) and Sandy Brown (Joel McCrea) – famed for their Baker-to-Brown passing game – go their separate ways after graduation: Johnny to the editor's desk of a newspaper sports page and Sandy to the promotional schemes of a wrestling manager nicknamed Shifty. The friends' paths merge again when Johnny helps Sandy out of tough economic times, but their renewed friendship teeters toward permanent collapse when both men woo a lovely newspaper illustrator (Marian Marsh). David O. Selznick is executive producer of this pre-Code programmer, overseeing the array of visual flourishes conjured by Dudley Murphy (director of the following year's The Emperor Jones and a co director of the earlier avant-garde Ballet mécanique). Algonquin Round Table wit Robert Benchley makes his feature debut as an always-befuddled sportscaster.

Foreign Correspondent
(1940)The assassination of a Dutch mediator on the eve of World War II plunges an American reporter into the dangerous plot of a secret spy organization.

Piccadilly Jim
(1936)This snappy comedy based on the book by P.G. Wodehouse follows successful American cartoonist Jim (Robert Montgomery), who lives and works in London.

Dancing Lady
(1933)Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Fred Astaire and the Three Stooges star in this musical romantic comedy about two strong-willed men who will do anything to win the heart of a Dancing Lady. Down on her luck, Janie Barlow (Academy Award winner Crawford--The Women, Humoresque) resorts to dancing in a burlesque show where she is seen by--and instantly wins the heart of--slumming milliona...