Robert Benchley Movies

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more...

A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly...

A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.