Robert Benchley Movies

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

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the...

A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

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

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

A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

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

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...

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.