A humorous look at the problems people have trying to sleep.A humorous look at the problems people have trying to sleep.A humorous look at the problems people have trying to sleep.
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- Robert Benchley(uncredited)
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- Trivia"Bodily Positions in Restful Sleep", the booklet referenced in the short, was published in 1931 by the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (now part of Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, PA. The author was N. M. Johnson, PhD, the Institute's head of the Investigation of Sleep.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)
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Benchley does double duty in this comedy short
Robert Benchley narrates with voice over, and then acts the various scenarios in this comedy short. Here he sleep walks, tries warm mile, counts sheep and tosses and turns to try to get to sleep. All with good humor. I've always liked Benchley over some other common narrators of the short fillers for feature films in the mid-20th century. His straight-faced, somber delivery with just a slight cynicism is always worth a smile at least. Benchley made 50 shorts from 1928 to 1945 - most of them in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He visited the doctor, trained a dog, showed how to sub-let a room or apartment, how to raise a baby. Many of these "How to" briefs were hilarious renditions of how not to do something - as in "How to Take a Vacation."
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- SimonJack
- Aug 29, 2023
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- MGM Miniatures (1935-1936 Season) #1: How to Sleep
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- Runtime11 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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