Robert Benchley Movies

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...

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

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

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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 newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

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...

Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

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