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How to Sleep

1935 film by Nick Grinde
Movie short_film Q1631690
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How to Sleep

Summary

How to Sleep is a short film[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • How to Sleep received the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy[3].
  • How to Sleep's instance of is recorded as short film[4].
  • How to Sleep's director is recorded as Nick Grinde[5].
  • How to Sleep's screenwriter is recorded as Robert Benchley[6].
  • How to Sleep's genre is recorded as comedy film[7].
  • How to Sleep's cast member is recorded as Robert Benchley[8].
  • How to Sleep's producer is recorded as Jack Chertok[9].
  • How to Sleep's production company is recorded as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[10].
  • How to Sleep's IMDb ID is recorded as tt0026497[11].
  • How to Sleep's original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[12].
  • How to Sleep's color is recorded as black-and-white[13].
  • How to Sleep's FilmAffinity film ID is recorded as 400991[14].
  • How to Sleep's country of origin is recorded as United States[15].
  • How to Sleep's publication date is recorded as +1935-01-01T00:00:00Z[16].
  • How to Sleep's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02rlrs5[17].
  • How to Sleep's distributed by is recorded as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[18].
  • How to Sleep's nominated for is recorded as Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy[19].
  • How to Sleep's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/How-to-Sleep[20].
  • How to Sleep's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'How to Sleep'}[21].
  • How to Sleep's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+11'}[22].
  • How to Sleep's ČSFD film ID is recorded as 264732[23].
  • How to Sleep's Kinopoisk film ID is recorded as 231264[24].
  • How to Sleep's OFDb film ID is recorded as 86334[25].
  • How to Sleep's TMDB movie ID is recorded as 197160[26].
  • How to Sleep's Letterboxd film ID is recorded as how-to-sleep-1935[27].

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Authorship and Creation

How to Sleep's producer is recorded as Jack Chertok[9]. Its director is recorded as Nick Grinde[5]. Its screenwriter is recorded as Robert Benchley[6]. Its cast member is recorded as Robert Benchley[8].

Publication

How to Sleep's publication date is recorded as +1935-01-01T00:00:00Z[16]. Its original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[12]. Its genre is recorded as comedy film[7].

Reception

How to Sleep received the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy[3].

Why It Matters

How to Sleep ranks in the top 6% of short_film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

FAQs

What awards did How to Sleep receive?

Honors received include Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy[3].

Related Entities

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Robert Benchley United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . oscars.org. oscars.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Google Knowledge Graph. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Kinopoisk. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Online-Filmdatenbank. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . The Movie Database. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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