Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James...

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

A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...

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

A group of young stage hopefuls tries to persuade a theatrical producer to give them their big chance at stardom.

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

After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that the disheveled man is a vagrant and goes back to...

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

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

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

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

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

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...

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

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

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....