Starring Robert Benchley
Subtitle: "those magnificent movie shorts."
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Benchley, Robert, 1889-1945; Humorists, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Theater critics -- United States -- Biography
Description: To moviegoers of the 1930s and 1940s, Robert Benchley's face was as familiar as that of the man next door. He began as a writer, and starred in short subjects wall based directly or indirectly on his printed humor-- and starring and written by him. This study of Benchley's screen humor examines the process by which this translation too place.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 198-205.