Robert Benchley Movies

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...

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...

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...

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.

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

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

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

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...

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

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...

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

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