Robert Benchley Movies

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

Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice...

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...

A Braodway 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...

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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

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...

A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table...

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

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...

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

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...

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

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

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.

Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...

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

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

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table...

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