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Sep 28, 2024 · It was a meeting place and home away from home for such luminaries as famed wits/authors Alexander Woollcott and Dorothy Parker; Broadway and Hollywood stars, including Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Laughton; popular raconteurs like Robert Benchley; and New York City mayors Jimmy Walker and Fiorello LaGuardia.
1 day ago · Robert Benchley. (1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist. Sex On sex with Mrs Benchley – they had two children. 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.
4 days ago · Robert Benchley (1908) – author; member of original staff of The New Yorker; actor [121] Frank M. Dixon (c. 1908) – governor of Alabama; a founder of the States' Rights Party ("Dixiecrats") Arthur Bluethenthal (1909) – All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot
Oct 11, 2024 · W.C. Fields pledged: "If I ever met a girl with kisses like wine, I'd marry her on the spot.'' Robert Benchley suggested: "Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini.'' And Benchley's fellow Algonquin Round Table wit, and brief Denver resident, Dorothy Parker predicted: "One more drink, and I'll be under the host.''
Sep 24, 2024 · And I was introduced to Robert Benchley through my mom, who had a couple of his books at home. ... Since 2008, she has won fourteen state championship titles in Alabama, Kentucky, Indiana, Georgia ...
4 days ago · A story that made the rounds was that one night Robert Benchley, half-asleep, got out of bed to get a glass of water at the request of his bed companion. It was only when he returned to an empty ...
4 days ago · SEP 15 Disney History. 1889: H umorist, 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.
