Robert Benchley Movies

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

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

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

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Being the desert...

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

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

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

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....

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

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

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

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 man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

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

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

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

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