Robert Benchley Movies

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of...

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."

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...

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.

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

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

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

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...

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...

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

Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...