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...bossed him for six years as his secretary, decides she's going to boss him for sixty more as his wife. She baits him with a strictly business arrangement, hooks him strictly on love. All of which is very incredible, but very amusing. Complicating actors include Robert Benchley and a magnificent Russell-to-Aherne kick in the pants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Three eminent Manhattan humorists-James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Stanley Walker-turned out to be contributors to Man to Man. They had once sold some pieces (sample title: How to Poker) to a naughty little journal called For Men formerly published by Country Press. Fawcett editors had resurrected their pieces from the files...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sewage Disposal | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Foreign Correspondent (Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, Robert Benchley, Albert Basserman; TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gag Man | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...have only talked of Mr. Hitchcock, and it is not quite unjustified that this should be so. For, however capable the performances of Joel McCrea and Albert Bassermann, however funny the prating of Robert Benchley, they are all but puppets in the Master's hands. Likewise the wild story about the kidnapping of a Dutch statesman by a Nazi spy-ring is more form than contents. The only concession to reality is the final appeal to the United States to steel herself against aggression a scene of piercing terror which shows Mr. Hitchcock still in firm control. To the very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/27/1940 | See Source »

Foreign Correspondent (Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, Robert Benchley, Albert Basserman; TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 23, 1940 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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