A woman sets out to prove that a writer’s ideas about “savages” are wrong. Read More »
Tag Archives: Robert Benchley
Young and Willing (1943) Edward H. Griffith, William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Robert Benchley
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists’ films during the war years Read More »
Bedtime Story (1941) Alexander Hall, Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley, Comedy, Romance
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 Read More »
The Sky’s the Limit (1943) Edward H. Griffith, Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron’s personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.
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I Married a Witch (1942) René Clair, Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her to the stake, this blonde bombshell with a broomstick finds herself drawn to one of them – a prospective governor (Fredric March) about to marry a spoiled socialite (Susan Hayward). The most delightful of the films the innovative French director René Clair made in Hollywood, I Married a Witch is a comic confection bursting with playful special effects and sparkling witticisms.
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