Robert Benchley Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...

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...

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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.