Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin (Video 1998)
"American Masters" The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch (TV Episode 1987)
Clip of Robert Benchley is shown
The Sky's the Limit (1943)
In one scene Joan Manion (played by Joan Leslie) is asked by Fred Atwell - a.k.a. Fred Burton (played by Fred Astaire) if her boss, Mr. Harriman (played by Robert Benchley), has ever proposed marriage to her: She replies that he has attempted to numerous times, but keeps getting side-tracked by discussions of such things as the "sex life of polyps". In 1928 in one of Robert Benchley's earliest films he played a "Doctor Benchley" in the film "The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)" where he lectures Women's Clubs on this interesting creature that can change its sex.
The Courtship of the Newt (Short 1938)
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