Robert Benchley 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 working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

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

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

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

Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry...

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

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

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.

A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of...

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...

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

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

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle...