Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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....

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

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

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

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