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The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928) was a Comedy - Black-and-white Film directed by Thomas Chalmers and produced by Thomas Chalmers.

The Sex Life of the Polyp was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2007.

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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.


Lecturer: Now the only way in which a polyp resembles other animals at all is that at certain periods of its growth, it does take a sentimental interest in polyps of the... oppositie sex. Now, this presents a very complicated situation as the polyp has no definite sex itself. That is... it's neither one thing or the other. By that I mean the same polyp may be either a boy or a girl according to what or how it happened to feel like being.


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Benchley first performed this routine in 1922.
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The Sex Life of the Polyp

Released 1928
Inducted 2007
(Short, Sound)




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