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Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin. Compilation of 9 uncut one-reelers featuring American humorists Robert Benchley (2 from 1928, 4 from the 1940s), Donald Ogden Stewart (2 from 1929) and Alexander Woollcott (1 from 1945).
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The Algonquin Round Table was a group of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits. Gathering initially as part of a practical joke , members of "The Vicious Circle", as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929.
Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin brings 11 of his short films to DVD (three other films star Alexander Woollcott and The Philadelphia Story screenwriter Donald Ogden...
Posthumously, Benchley's works continue to be released in books such as the 1983 Random House compilation The Best of Robert Benchley, and the 2005 collection of short films Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin, which compiled many of Benchley's popular short films from his years at Paramount with other works from fellow ...
An homage to the great American satirist Robert Benchley and two other witty literati who shared his company at the Hotel Algonquin's legendary round table and personified the sophisticated literary scene of New York in the 1920's and 1930's. Includes 14 short films.
21. Feb. 2006 · A nifty piece of film history is revived in Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin, a collection of 14 short films (most of them around 10 minutes) featuring Benchley or his cronies from the famed intellectual circle of New York's Algonquin Hotel.
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American humorist and satirist Robert Benchley began as a writer, but when Hollywood came calling, he adapted some of his most amusing pieces for film. In these wry filmic explorations of the headache
