Robert Benchley Movies

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

A Braodway 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.

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

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...

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...

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

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle...

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

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.