With the cooperation of Benchley family members, and using
diaries and correspondence and much archival material, Gehring has
written a fresh and lively biography of humorist Robert Benchley.
Known for his development of the comic anti-hero in essays,
columns, film scripts, as a screen actor, and on stage and radio,
Benchley emerges as a fascinating individual whose significance as
a pivotal American humorist is fully documented.
Benchley's times and places--including New York's Algonquin
Round-Table set of the 1920s and Hollywood in the 1930s and
1940s--are colorfully depicted, and there are interesting glimpses
of friends and colleagues such as Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman,
Donald Ogdon Stewart, and Groucho Marx. The flavor of Benchley
comes through not only in observations and anecdotes but in a
section reprinting ten of his letters, six of his Life Drama
columns, and a collage of his published comments on favorite
comedians. Author Gehring also provides an annotated bibliography
of Benchley's books and selected shorter works and a bibliography
of books and articles about him, a chronology of events
highlighting his life and career, an annotated filmography, and a
selected discography. Illustrations include photographs spanning
Benchley's career and reproductions of his own sketches and
cartoons. Mindful of Benchley's warning not to get too serious over
laughter, Gehring has produced a thorough critical and
bibliographical examination of a comic persona, which is also a
fond celebration of a great humorist.
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