Robert Benchley Movies

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....

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

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

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

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...

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

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

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

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.

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...