Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
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Robert Benchley, 1899 - 1945 Writer and actor Robert Benchley was born on September 15, 1899 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Benchley was best known for being a humorist and comedian. While an undergraduate at Harvard University, he gave his first comedic performance impersonating a befuddled mostra altro after-dinner speaker. He became a campus celebrity and he landed the position of editor of the Harvard Lampoon. Benchley worked as a drama critic at Life magazine in 1920. Under the pseudonym Guy Fawkes, he wrote The Wayward Press column for The New Yorker. He also briefly served as managing editor for Vanity Fair where his lieutenants were Dorothy Parker and Robert E. Sherwood. He quit in protest to the firing of Parker. The three of them were among the regulars of the Algonquin Round Table, which was a social circle of New York wits that included Harpo Marx and George Kaufman. As a member of the Algonquin Round Table, he became a poplular radio personality, film actor and screenwriter. Several of Benchley's humorous monologues were performed in short films, which include "The Treasurer's Report" (1928). His comic sketches were collected in fifteen volumes, including "My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew" (1936) and "Benchley Beside Himself" (1943). His son Nathaniel edited a collection of his essays, "The Benchley Roundup" (1954) and published a biography of his father in 1955. Robert Benchley died in 1945. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Robert Benchley
The Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of his Favorites (1933) — Autore — 227 copie
Robert Benchley's Wayward Press: The Complete Collection of His the New Yorker Columns Written as Guy Fawkes (2008) 3 copie
The Sunday Menace 2 copie
My Ten Years in a Quandary 1 copia
Do Insects Think? 1 copia
An Hour for lunch 1 copia
Opere correlate
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Collaboratore — 713 copie
The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table (2007) — Collaboratore — 87 copie
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Collaboratore — 54 copie
1935 Essay Annual — Collaboratore — 4 copie
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
RDCBLP v040 Winter of the White Seal | A Solitary Dance | The Sunday Menace — Autore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Benchley, Robert
- Nome legale
- Benchley, Robert Charles
- Data di nascita
- 1889-09-15
- Data di morte
- 1945-11-21
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University (BA|1913)
- Attività lavorative
- columnist
actor
screenwriter
drama critic - Relazioni
- Benchley, Nathaniel (son)
Benchley, Peter (grandson) - Organizzazioni
- Algonquin Round Table
New York Tribune
Vanity Fair
Life
The New Yorker
King Features Syndicate (mostra tutto 9)
RKO Pictures
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Paramount Pictures - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960)
Academy Award for Best Short Subject (1935) - Breve biografia
- Robert Benchley, humorist, critic, actor, writer and director was born in 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts. His writing career began as early as his college days as president of the LAMPOON, in which he wrote many articles. His reputation as a humorist grew when he became editor of the New York Tribune's Sunday Magazine. During the 1920's he was the dramatic editor for both Life Magazine and the New Yorker. His career also included writing, acting and directing for MGM.
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Read it a while ago. Some of the humor is dated, as you'd imagine with stuff written in the 20's and 30's but some of it surprisingly holds up.
I think I was aware of Benchley via the 90's biopic of Dorothy Parker. He was her colleague & friend (& maybe lover? can't remember) and also a dry wit humorist member of Algonquin Round Table and writer for New Yorker (one of the first I think.)
I think I was aware of Benchley via the 90's biopic of Dorothy Parker. He was her colleague & friend (& maybe lover? can't remember) and also a dry wit humorist member of Algonquin Round Table and writer for New Yorker (one of the first I think.)
I don't appreciate much of the old New Yorker humor, but there's a lot of James Thurber I love, and I'll read anything by Bob Benchley that I can find, too.
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- Opere
- 56
- Opere correlate
- 48
- Utenti
- 1,568
- Popolarità
- #16,461
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 24
- ISBN
- 85
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 11
> BAnQ (Le nouvelliste, 17 avr. 1982) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/3262358