Robert Benchley – MRQE

Showbiz Goes to War (TV)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States’ war effort.

Bedtime Story

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few ‘worlds-apart” discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there

Janie

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Teenage Janie (Joyce Reynolds) falls in love with a private (Robert Hutton) from an Army base opposed by her editor father (Edward Arnold).

Piccadilly Jim

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jim’s father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father’s hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics ‘Rags to Riches’ which is based upon the Pett’s. But this upsets the Pett’s so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.

Kiss and Tell

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.

The Sky’s the Limit

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron’s personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.

Janie Gets Married

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Newlywed Janie’s (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father’s (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

The Bride Wore Boots

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rich and beautiful Southern heiress Sally Warren loves horse-racing and running her horse-farm although her husband of seven years hates the four-legged mammals. Spouse Jeff Warren is a successful author, Civil War scholar, and popular lecturer on the ladies club circuit. After Jeff buys aging twelve-year old nag Albert in the mistaken belief that he’s a colt and Sally purchases a desk for her husband in the naive belief that it once belonged to Jefferson Davis, it’s obvious that they have few interests in common. The squabbling is complicated by Jeff’s jealousy of Sally’s relationship with Lance Gale, her childhood friend, neighbor, and fellow horse breeder.

The Stork Club

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Director Hal Walker’s 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City’s famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fitzgerald, Don Defore, Andy Russell, Iria Adrian and Robert Benchley.

Week-End at the Waldorf

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he’ll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man’s dealing with a foreign potentate.