Robert Lees

Birth : 1912-07-10, San Francisco, California, USA

Death : 2004-06-13

Movies

Jumping Jacks
Screenplay
Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. With his lovely new female partner, Hap now plays a clownish parody of a soldier. When Chick organises a soldier show at Fort Benning, he realizes he needs his former partner's help—so, to get onto the base, Hap impersonates a hapless real soldier, but circumstances force them to prolong the masquerade, creating an increasingly tangled Army-sized SNAFU.
Comin' Round the Mountain
Screenplay
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Screenplay
Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy's invisible help.
Holiday in Havana
Writer
While working as a hotel busboy, aspiring bandleader Carlos Estrada tries to persuade singer Lolita Valdez to join him in a rhumba contest in Havana.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
Screenplay
Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Screenplay
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
Buck Privates Come Home
Screenplay
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Crazy House
Screenplay
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Hit the Ice
Screenplay
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.
No Time for Love
Story
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.
Hold That Ghost
Original Story
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Hold That Ghost
Screenplay
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Bachelor Daddy
Screenplay
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
The Black Cat
Screenplay
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
The Invisible Woman
Screenplay
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
Street of Memories
Writer
Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a fight remembers that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.
Let's Talk Turkey
Screenplay
It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her scowling family, and Abner has no idea how to proceed. The film's narrator has us cut away to the kitchen of chef M.O. Cullen who demonstrates the proper way to carve the bird, spoon out the stuffing, and lay out the platter. Back to Abner, who's missed Cullen's lesson, so he makes a fine mess. Can this marriage survive?
Prophet Without Honor
Screenplay
This short film portrays the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), an American Naval officer who developed the first maps that charted the oceans' winds and currents.
Weather Wizards
Writer
Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the citrus groves of Southern California. First, the scientists predict the storm's course, giving several days' warning to farmers and growers. The growers, typified by the Morgan family, prepare the oil-burning pots throughout their grove. Then, as the temperature dips below freezing, they light the pots. The cold snap continues as oil-supplies dwindle; the smoky air slows traffic, including trucks bringing more oil. The scientists strive to predict how long freezing temperatures will last: can the Morgans hold out?
An Hour for Lunch
Screenplay
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
Penny's Picnic
Writer
1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.
It's in the Stars
Screenplay
Musical short about a fraternity and a sorority that call a halt to dating between their houses to improve their grades.
An Evening Alone
Writer
Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.
Music Made Simple
Writer
Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.
How to Start the Day
Story
Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.
A Night at the Movies
Writer
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Penny Wisdom
Writer
A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.
Hit-and-Run Driver
Screenplay
A man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then leaves the scene and tries to cover up the incident.
Hit-and-Run Driver
Story
A man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then leaves the scene and tries to cover up the incident.