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The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)

11 min  -  Comedy | Short  -   25 July 1928 (USA)
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Dr. Benchley lectures the women's club on the unusual but important title-topic.

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Thomas Chalmers

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Robert Benchley

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Robert Benchley
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Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that the subject is made more complicated by the fact that polyps are able to change their sex from time to time. Then he presents some of the pictures of his specimens and the experiments that he has done with them. Written by Snow Leopard  

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Benchley first performed this routine in 1922. See more »

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Lecturer: We took one of the tiny creatures home with us to live. It was at the time a girl polyp, so we called her Mary after Ethel Barrymore. She was at first naturally shy but soon grew accustomed to our mannish ways and became more like a child of our own than a polyp - although she looked more like a polyp than a child of our own.
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Referenced in The Sky's the Limit (1943) See more »