Robert Benchley Movies

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

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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