Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

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

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

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

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

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

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

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...

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.