Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.

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

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...

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...