Robert Benchley Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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....

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...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...