Robert Benchley (archive footage)
Documental que recoge los orígenes de la gran factoría de animación que es la empresa Pixar, creadores de los "Toy Story", "Monsters", "Cars" y de otros muchos éxitos del cine de animación americano de los últimos años. Pixar es hoy en día la indiscutible líder del panorama mundial de la animación por ordenador, y sus películas las que más recaudan del género. El documental recoge testimonios de las principales personalidades del sector, directivos de la compañía y actores que trabajaron en sus proyectos. En España, este documental se incluye en la edición en DVD de 2 discos de la película Wall-E, así como en la edición Blu-Ray de la misma película.
Writer
Dos cortos de animación clásicos de los estudios de Disney. En 'El Dragón Chiflado' (1941), un jovencito y un famoso luchador de dragones se unen para enseñar a un dragón dócil el arte de ser una fuerza a tener en cuenta. En 'Mickey y las Judías Mágicas' (1947), Mickey Mouse, Goofy y Donald Duck enfrentan al temible Willie the Giant para intentar recuperar el arpa de canto mágico a Happy Valley.
Robert Benchley
Dos cortos de animación clásicos de los estudios de Disney. En 'El Dragón Chiflado' (1941), un jovencito y un famoso luchador de dragones se unen para enseñar a un dragón dócil el arte de ser una fuerza a tener en cuenta. En 'Mickey y las Judías Mágicas' (1947), Mickey Mouse, Goofy y Donald Duck enfrentan al temible Willie the Giant para intentar recuperar el arpa de canto mágico a Happy Valley.
Himself (archive footage)
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Archive Footage
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.
(archive footage)
Segunda parte de "Érase una vez en Hollywood". A diferencia del primer documental, sólo hay dos narradores: Gene Kelly y Fred Astaire. Incluye escenas de comedias y dramas en los que intervienen los hermanos Marx, Laurel y Hardy o Katharine Hepburn.
(archive footage)
Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
John Van Brunt
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
Uncle Todd Warren
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.
Tom P. Curtis
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.
Ben Stevens
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.
Narrator
Duke y Chester son dos actores de tercera fila que huyendo de un apuro se embarcan rumbo a Alaska. En el mismo barco viajan dos asesinos, Sperry y McGurk, que tienen en su poder un mapa con la ubicación concreta de una mina que esconde gran cantidad de oro. La casualidad hace que el mapa vaya a parar a manos de los dos actores que aprovechan la ocasión para abandonar el barco adoptando la identidad de los asesinos.
George Archer
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.
Randy Morton
Un famoso corresponsal de guerra se introduce en la habitación de una estrella de cine; un soldado se enamora de una joven taquígrafa a la caza de un hombre rico; un estafador quiere hacer negocio con un jeque millonario; un periodista busca una exclusiva; un director de orquesta pierde a su cantante principal... Nada más normal un fin de semana en el más prestigioso de los hoteles de Nueva York, el Waldorf Astoria.
Robert Benchley
Una niña está desesperada por llegar a Washington D.C. para estar con su hermano solitario, soldado herido. Ella persuade a Bing Crosby para que la deje unirse a su caravana.
Robert Benchley
Cuando Archie, el dueño de un bar de barrio descubre que uno de sus clientes habituales, Michael O´Malley, propietario de una compañía de discos se va a la quiebra, se da cuenta de que muchos de sus clientes habituales pronto están en la misma situación y por tanto, no podrá pagar sus deudas de la taberna.
Parker
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Charlie Corker
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
Judge Robert Simpson
Un piloto de la armada (Fred MacMurray) está a punto de ser derribado al participar en una arriesgada misión. Finalmente cae en la propiedad de una muchacha llamada Peggy (Claudette Colbert), estableciéndose una divertida confusión entre el nombre de su perro 'Piggy' y el de la chica. Esto lleva al novio de Peggy a creer que el piloto está enamorado de ella.
J.B. Mitcham
This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.
John Van Brunt
Teenage Janie (Joyce Reynolds) falls in love with a private (Robert Hutton) from an Army base opposed by her editor father (Edward Arnold).
Martin Osborne
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Writer
When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than stellar results.
Story
When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than stellar results.
Joseph A. Doakes
When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than stellar results.
Joseph A. Doakes
Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."
Hank Higgins
En los años previos a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un director de orquesta norteamericano, de gira por la Unión Soviética, se enamora de una muchacha nativa. Cuando los nazis atacan el país, ambos deben hacerles frente formando parte de la resistencia.
Writer
Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.
Answer Man
Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.
Joseph A. Doakes
Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes incorrectly is being rationed as a war measure. Mrs. Doakes knows that tomatoes aren't rationed, but she doesn't correct him, especially after he announces that he will grow enough tomatoes to feed the entire block. As he proceeds with his tomato garden, he, unaware of what it actually takes to grow tomato plants successfully, accepts advice from the many people who are willing to give it. The problem ends up being that much of the advice is conflicting. But at the end of the process, Joe is pleased with the fact of having grown a fruit to maturity - regardless of the actual yield of the garden - until someone else, or something else, has a say in what happens to that fruit. Written by Huggo (Taken from the imdb page)
Doakes
Narra tres historias con un marcado aire sobrenatural en los que el destino tiene vital importancia. En la primera una mujer no muy agraciada físicamente recibe una máscara que la convierte en una bella dama, en la segunda un hombre recibe un trágico augurio, y en la última un trapecista presiente su propio final.
Philip 'Phil' Harriman
Un héroe de la Segunda Guerra Mundial decide desaparecer durante un tiempo de la vida pública. Para ello, se toma unos días de descanso en Nueva York, como un civil más. Allí conocerá a una fotógrafa, obsesionada con la idea de ir al frente, de la que se enamorará perdidamente. Como él no quiere desvelar su verdadera identidad, y la intrépida periodista no le hace ningún caso, tendrá que buscar la forma de que se fije en él... (FILMAFFINITY)
Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Arthur Kenny
Un grupo de jóvenes y hambrientos actores se unen para compartir finanzas y un apartamento. Norman Reese (William Holden) prohíbe que haya amoríos entre los chicos y las chicas hasta que no se hayan abierto camino en la escena, pero Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) y Tony Dennison (James Beown) ya están casados en secreto. Una amiga se deja caer por el lugar para ver a Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll), se queda muy asombrada de ver que chicos y chicas comparten el mismo apartamento, e insiste que es su deber informar al padre de Dottie (Jay Fassett.) de estos hechos.
Dr. Dudley White
Siglo XVII. Cuando Jennifer, acusada de brujería, está a punto de ser quemada en la hoguera, lanza una maldición sobre su acusador: todos sus descendientes serán infelices en sus matrimonios. En 1942, Wallace Wooley, al tiempo que se presenta como candidato a gobernador, está preparando su boda con la presumida de Estelle Masterson. Un rayo golpea el árbol junto al cual fue quemada la bruja y ésta cobra vida. Desde entonces, intentará arruinar la vida de Wallace.
Albert Osborne
Después de probar fortuna en Nueva York y no tener éxito, Susan Applegate decide regresar a su pueblo en Iowa. Previendo esta situación había reservado 27,50$ para el tren, pero como la tarifa ha aumentado decide disfrazarse de niña de 12 años para pagar la mitad. Los revisores del tren dudan que en realidad sea una niña y para escapar de ellos entra en el camarote de un apuesto militar, el Mayor del título, y es donde comienzan los enredos.
Joe Doakes
Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
Doakes (scenes deleted)
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
G.B. Atwater
El pintor Tom Verney (Fred MacMurray) desea cumplir su sueño de irse a vivir a México. Pero necesita dinero, por lo que acepta el empleo de secretario de la ejecutiva de publicidad A. M. MacGregor (Rosalind Russell), una mujer de fuerte personalidad.
Mr. Benchley
After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink his coffee, and he thinks the arrival of some plumbers is just a giant conspiracy to keep him unnerved.
Writer
As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account of the ways that a government investigative committee has been interrogating its witnesses. Joe then nods off, and imagines that he is being questioned by the committee. He envisages how satisfying it would be to turn the tables on the investigators.
Joe Doakes
As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account of the ways that a government investigative committee has been interrogating its witnesses. Joe then nods off, and imagines that he is being questioned by the committee. He envisages how satisfying it would be to turn the tables on the investigators.
Eddie Turner
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
Wilburforce Puddle, hotel manager
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Husband
In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.
Martin Cortland
En Nueva York, el propietario de un teatro de Broadway, está enamorado de la bella corista Sheila Winthrop. Su mujer no deja de vigilarle, mientras que Sheila sólo tiene ojos para el coreógrafo del espectáculo, Robert Curtis. Cuando son descubiertos, Robert no tiene más remedio que escapar, hasta que finalmente acaba en el ejército. Robert nunca se hará rico como soldado, pero al menos habrá salido del apuro... ¿O no?
Robert Benchley
Un entrañable dragón se distingue del resto de su especie porque no se siente violento ni malvado. Antes que atacar a los seres humanos, prefiere entretenerse en cantar canciones o recitar poesía. Un día aparece un famoso caballero andante, que le enseñará a combatir.
Joe Doakes / Father
Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.
Writer
A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders that have recently been brought in. Shoelaces, for example, have an objectionable habit of breaking at crucial moments. The officer proceeds to call attention to window shades, bedroom slippers, and other menaces. He also answers his critics who advocate reasoning with these objects rather than punishing them.
Sgt. Benchley / Joe Doakes
A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders that have recently been brought in. Shoelaces, for example, have an objectionable habit of breaking at crucial moments. The officer proceeds to call attention to window shades, bedroom slippers, and other menaces. He also answers his critics who advocate reasoning with these objects rather than punishing them.
Prof. Oliver Wendel Holmes Dana
Con la ayuda de su ama de llaves, el viudo profesor Oliver Wendell se ocupa de la educación de sus tres hijas. Dana, una de ellas, tiene la impresión de que su novio se interesa más por su coche que por ella, por lo que pone sus ojos en un compañero de negocios de su padre, el atractivo Richard Calvert, comprendiendo que ha llegado el momento de dar el paso de niña a mujer y tomar una decisión definitiva...
Writer
Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.
Joe Doakes
Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.
Writer
Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands and shave. Then she sends him to the store for some butter, and he comes back with everything - except butter. Finally, he decides to install a small shelf on the wall - and makes a major production out of it.
Joe Doakes
Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands and shave. Then she sends him to the store for some butter, and he comes back with everything - except butter. Finally, he decides to install a small shelf on the wall - and makes a major production out of it.
Roger Van Horn
Un publicista le pide a su secretaria que se case con ella, por pura conveniencia, para poder cerrar un negocio que tiene entre manos. El pacto conlleva el divorcio inmediato, una vez cerrado el asunto. El problema viene cuando ella rehúsa cumplir con su parte, quiere seguir casada con su 'maridito'.
Dialogue
Poco antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un corresponsal americano enviado a Europa se ve envuelto en la lucha contra el fascismo durante la investigación del secuestro de un diplomático holandés. Se trata de un alegato en favor de la intervención de los americanos en la guerra. Fue propuesta como candidata a seis Óscar -incluyendo mejor película-, pero no consiguó ninguno.
Stebbins
Poco antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un corresponsal americano enviado a Europa se ve envuelto en la lucha contra el fascismo durante la investigación del secuestro de un diplomático holandés. Se trata de un alegato en favor de la intervención de los americanos en la guerra. Fue propuesta como candidata a seis Óscar -incluyendo mejor película-, pero no consiguó ninguno.
Writer
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
Joe Doakes
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
Writer
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).
Joseph H. 'Joe' Doakes
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).
Producer
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office.
Screenplay
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office.
Lecturer / Joseph H. Doakes
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office.
Joe Doakes
Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.
Lecturer / Joe Doakes
Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock everyman and slightly bumbling character Joe Doakes to dramatize such situations. Situations that can impede digestion include receiving bad news resulting in stress, being in love, and feeling scared. Snacking or nibbling between meals can ruins one's appetite at meal time. Having the correct posture while eating is important for digestion; finding the right posture can be difficult in certain circumstances, such as being on a picnic or eating in bed (specifically for men when using trays). Sharing tables with staring strangers may also impede digestion. And it's difficult to digest food when one can't get any of it. Written by Huggo (Taken from the imdb page)
Joe Doakes
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
Screenplay
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
Writer
A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.
Joe Doakes
A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.
Lecturer / Joe
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
Writer
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
Joe Doakes
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
Writer
In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.
Psychoanalyst / Mr. Ostegraf
In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.
City Treasurer Benchley
The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
Writer
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.
Football Fan
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.
Writer
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
Lecturer
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
Writer
Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.
Zoology Lecturer
Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.
Writer
American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.
Lecturer Father
American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.
Writer
Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.
Joe Doakes
Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.
Writer
Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.
Robert Benchley
Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.
Writer
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.
Joe Doakes
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.
Lecturer
Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.
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).
Husband
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).
Oscar
Un artista bohemio y una chica de la alta sociedad intentan averiguar si están hechos para casarse. Una vez casados, son pobres pero felices, hasta que él salta a las portadas de los periódicos y se convierte en la nueva sensación social.
Robert Benchley
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
Duffy
Steve Raleight (Robert Taylor) quiere producir un "show" en Broadway y, aunque ya tiene al promotor, Herman Whipple, y a la estrella, la joven Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell), no le dejan realizar su sueño. Caroline Whipple (Binnie Barnes) quiere utilizar para el espectáculo a una estrella conocida, y no a una cualquiera. Por otro lado, Sally compra un caballo con la intención de participar en una carrera para obtener fondos con los que promocionar el show...
Writer
A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and digesting food. The on-screen narrator begins with teeth, "little sentinels" as he calls them, and the tongue. Then it's on to the stomach: he describes the stomach's workings as if it were an office or a factory. He uses an illustration of the side view of a human torso, with mouth, esophagus, and stomach visible, saying it's a photograph of a man with a visible digestive tract.
Joe Doakes
A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and digesting food. The on-screen narrator begins with teeth, "little sentinels" as he calls them, and the tongue. Then it's on to the stomach: he describes the stomach's workings as if it were an office or a factory. He uses an illustration of the side view of a human torso, with mouth, esophagus, and stomach visible, saying it's a photograph of a man with a visible digestive tract.
Mr. Benchley
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
Writer
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
Writer
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
Mr. Robert Benchley
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
Bill Macon
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.
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
Lecturer / Dog Owner
This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.
Mr. Benchley
Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation. Hilarity ensues.
Host / Narrator
A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research on sleep, including a time-lapse film of a man changing positions 55 times during an 8-hour rest: why exercise, he asks, when you can sleep like a top? The film instructs one on how to get a drink of water during the night without waking completely, and other useful skills for the insomniac.
Charlie McCaleb
Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) es el capitán de un barco experto en cruzar los mares de China. Es un hombre experimentado, fuerte y aguerrido, al parecer de vuelta de todo. En cierta ocasión, el barco debe transportar un importante cargamento de oro desde Hong Kong hasta Singapur. Gaskell teme algo más peligroso que un tifón; el ataque, frecuente en la zona, de los piratas para hacerse con el botín.
Screenplay
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
Master of Ceremonies
Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.
Dialogue
Musical de la RKO que tuvo un gran éxito de público, además de ser nominada al Oscar a la mejor película. Guy Holden, un célebre bailarín americano, está de viaje por Europa en compañía de su amigo y abogado Egbert. Camino de Inglaterra, un incidente en la aduana francesa le hace conocer a Mimi Glossop, que viaja con su tía. En Londres vuelve a tener un encuentro casual con ella. Guy queda profundamente enamorado de Mimi, sin saber que se trata de una mujer casada, en proceso de divorcio, cuyos trámites está llevando el propio Egbert. Guy, Egbert, Mimi y su tía volverán a coincidir en un hotel de la costa en el que se van a producir una serie de equívocos.
Robert Benchley
Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it.
Ward King
Janie, una bailarina de un tugurio de Manhattan, es atrapada en una redada y llevada a la cárcel. De allí la saca Pat Gallagher, un amigo de la alta sociedad, que logra introducirla en una superproducción de Broadway, que le servirá de trampolín para alcanzar el estrellato
Hubbell
Mary Carroll, una chica trabajadora, alquila una habitación en piso compartido con Jack Bacon, un artista bohemio. Como él sale por las noches y ella por el día, no se ven nunca. Carroll se propone conocer a su compañero de piso como sea.
Additional Dialogue
Un hombre joven llamado Richard Bruce (Robert Armstrong) hace su primer viaje a través del Atlántico a Londres. En la capital británica, de manera accidental y envuelto en niebla y bruma, se ve implicado con unos delincuentes. Richard Bruce encuentra la guarida de los secuestradores que se dedicaban a extorsionar a una joven y, a base de sangre fría, jugando sus tarjetas cerca de su chaleco, logra hacerles creer que lo que tiene entre manos son unos papeles secretos que ansía poseer esta banda de criminales.
Radio Announcer
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.
Writer
Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.
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Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Radio Announcer
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Writer
Dos amigos intentan desertar del ejército, pero suben a un barco que les conduce a la zona de guerra. Rivales por la misma chica, destruyen sin querer un depósito de municiones.
Writer
Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that the subject is made more complicated by the fact that polyps are able to change their sex from time to time. Then he presents some of the pictures of his specimens and the experiments that he has done with them. (IMDb)
Lecturer
Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that the subject is made more complicated by the fact that polyps are able to change their sex from time to time. Then he presents some of the pictures of his specimens and the experiments that he has done with them. (IMDb)
Treasurer
Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.
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A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the employ of Hugo Niles and goes to work for Gray, persuading Mary to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, with the intention of using her to endorse her father's cold cream should she win. Mary breaks her engagement with Horace. When it appears that she will win the contest, Hugo lures her home on the pretext that her father is ill, and she misses the contest. Chip and Mary return to Atlantic City, discovering that the new Miss America has told the world that she owes all her success to Gray's cold cream. On this note, Chip and Mary decide to get married.
