Nathaniel Benchley
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Humphrey Bogart...claim Bogart didn't make it to sea until after the Armistice was signed. Another version, which Bogart's long time friend, author Nathaniel Benchley, claims is the truth, is Bogart was injured while on assignment to take a naval prisoner to... In this article: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Hollywood, John Huston, Leslie Howard, Warner Bros., Howard Hawks, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy |
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Rat Pack
...(den mother), Sid Luft (cage master), Bogart (rat in charge of public relations), Swifty Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), Nathaniel Benchley (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex...
In this article: Frank Sinatra, Rat Pack, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Rat Pack, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, and Humphrey Bogart
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Henry Wetherby Benchley
...Texas, shortly after founding a small township nearby, Benchley, Texas. His grandson, Robert Benchley, was a famed humorist, and his great-grandson, Nathaniel Benchley, and great-great-grandson, Peter Benchley, were both noted authors.
In this article: Peter Benchley, Robert Benchley, Houston, Texas, Massachusetts, and Texas
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Arnold Lobel
...1981 Caldecott Medal for his book ''Fables ''. Lobel also illustrated the works of other authors. A notable example is Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley, which was first published in 1969. He was born in Los Angeles, California, to...
In this article: Frog and Toad, Arnold Lobel, Ice cream, Dog, Christmas Eve, Jay Hogart, and Mouse Soup
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Peter Benchley
...Spielberg. Two more of his works, ''The Deep '' and ''The Island '', were also adapted for cinema. He was the son of author Nathaniel Benchley and grandson of Algonquin Round Table founder Robert Benchley. His younger brother, Nat...
In this article: Peter Benchley, Great white shark, Steven Spielberg, The Island, John Williams, Jaws, Jaws, and National Council
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The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming is a 1966 American comedy film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchley juvenile novel, The Off-Islanders, it was adapted for the screen by William Rose . The movie tells the Cold War story of the...
In this article: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, New England, United States Navy, Alan Arkin, and Theodore Bikel
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Whitney Darrow, Jr.
...Give Up?, Stop, Miss and Please Pass the Hostess. He illustrated children's books and other books written by such authors as Nathaniel Benchley, Jean Kerr and Johnny Carson. A master draftsman who (unlike most of his colleagues)...
In this article: Whitney Darrow, Jr., Daily Princetonian, Greenwich High School, Art Students League of New York, Princeton University, Princeton Tiger Magazine, Judge, Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, and Charles Addams
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Irving Brecher
...TV edition of The Life of Riley. He later created and co-produced ''The People's Choice '' as well. Adapting Nathaniel Benchley's novel, he wrote the screenplay for, and directed Sail A Crooked Ship starring Ernie Kovacs and a young Robert...
In this article: Irving Brecher, Marx Brothers, Academy Award, Meet Me in St Louis, Ernie Kovacs, Robert Wagner, Ziegfeld Follies, The Life of Riley, and Bye Bye Birdie
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'47
...named all the white males who ran America. Social Security, a decade old, was reviewed. Rheumatic fever was a major killer of children. Nathaniel Benchley ventured "Up in Benchley's Room" and Albert Einstein recommended a few science...
In this article: '47, Social Security, American Magazine, Rheumatic fever, Time Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Roy Chapman Andrews, Ogden Nash, Christopher Morley, and S. J. Perelman
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Nathaniel Benchley
...(1889-1945), the noted American writer, humorist, critic, actor, and one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City. Nathaniel Benchley was the highly-respected author of many children's/juvenile books that provided...
In this article: Robert Benchley, Norman Jewison, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Academy Award, World War II, Humphrey Bogart, and Manhattan
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Nathaniel Benchley (November 13, 1915 – December 14, 1981) was an American author.
Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was the son of Gertrude Darling and Robert Benchley (1889-1945), the noted American writer, humorist, critic, actor, and, with Dorothy Parker, one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City.
Nathaniel Benchley was the highly-respected author of many children's/juvenile books that provided learning for the youthful readers with stories of various animals or through the book's historical settings. Benchley dealt with diverse locales and topics such as "Bright Candles", which recounts the experiences of a 16-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of his country in World War II; and "Small Wolf", a story about a Native American boy who meets white men on the island of Manhattan and learns that their ideas about land are different from those of his own peoples'.
Film director/producer, Norman Jewison made Benchley's 1961 novel The Off-Islanders into a motion picture titled The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming for which he received the nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. He was a close friend of actor Humphrey Bogart and wrote his biography in 1975.
Benchley's novel Welcome to Xanadu was made into the 1975 motion picture Sweet Hostage.
Nathaniel Benchley died in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts and was interred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket.
Partial bibliography, novels (unless otherwise noted):
- Birth Date:
- November 13, 1915
- Birthplace:
- Newton, Massachusetts United States
- Death Date:
- December 14, 1981
- Place of Death:
- Boston, Massachusetts United States
- Spouse:
- Marjorie Bradford Benchley
- Occupation:
- Author, journalist, film writer, painter
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