Robert Benchley Movies

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

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...

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...

Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they...

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

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

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

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

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

In New Orleans, young Kit Latimer, who loves and plays the African-American music of the city, moves to Chicago with her architect father, George....

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

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

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

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

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...

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

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...

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

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

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...