Robert Benchley — Actor (10)
Bedtime Story (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bedtime Story
director: Alexander Hall actor: Fredric March / Loretta Young
other title: La vida empieza hoy / J'épouse ma femme
A Broadway 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
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Week-End at the Waldorf
other title: Aqui Começa a Vida / Weekend im Waldorf
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.
Song of Russia (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Song of Russia
director: Gregory Ratoff actor: Robert Taylor / Susan Peters
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.
Kiss and Tell (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Kiss and Tell
other title: Non parlare, baciami / Küsse und verschweig mir nichts!
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.
Practically Yours (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Practically Yours
other title: Sinceramente tua / Sturzflug ins Glück
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Broadway Melody of 1938
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: Robert Taylor / Eleanor Powell
other title: Follie di Broadway 1938 / Broadway Melodie 1938
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
Dancing Lady (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dancing Lady
other title: La danza di Venere / Ich tanze nur für Dich
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.