The definitive biography of Robert Benchley: humorist, actor, and leading man of the Algonquin Round Table. Few American writers have ever achieved the widespread acclaim and multidimensional popularity attained by Robert Benchley (1889-1945) during the first half of this century. A charter member, along with close friends Dorothy Parker, Robert Sherwood, and Harold Ross, of the Notorious "Vicious Circle" that held court at the Algonquin Hotel in the Roaring Twenties, Benchley was many things to many people: a best-selling ...
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The definitive biography of Robert Benchley: humorist, actor, and leading man of the Algonquin Round Table. Few American writers have ever achieved the widespread acclaim and multidimensional popularity attained by Robert Benchley (1889-1945) during the first half of this century. A charter member, along with close friends Dorothy Parker, Robert Sherwood, and Harold Ross, of the Notorious "Vicious Circle" that held court at the Algonquin Hotel in the Roaring Twenties, Benchley was many things to many people: a best-selling author of hilarious books chronicling the comic futility of the human condition, a sharp-witted theater critic whose reviews graced the pages of the original Life and The New Yorker for nearly two decades, and a much sought-after radio personality and feature film actor who starred in his own series of classic comedy shorts. In this sympathetic and witty biography, Billy Altman explores the man behind the mirth as he chronicles Benchley's journey from the glittering lights of Broadway and the dim ones in the rollicking speakeasies of New York during prohibition, to the infamous Garden of Allah apartments and the glamorously decadent Hollywood of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The definitive biography of Robert Benchley (1899-1945), humorist and actor. Benchley was a best-selling author of a dozen hilarious books chronicling the comic futility of the human condition, and one of the most influential humorists not only of his own generation but successive ones as well. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover, 382 pp., illus., unclipped illustrated jacket in clear protective cover. Mild wear at ends of spine, straight corners, minor soil mark on bottom edge, no owner names or gift notes, clean text, very nice jacket.
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