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...

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...

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...

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

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 girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

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...

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....

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

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

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

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

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

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

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...

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

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

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

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.