
September 14, 1889
Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, a newspaper columnist and an actor.

On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.

When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize Gaskell's ship.

In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.

An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.

A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesn't care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesn't feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it.