Robert Benchley Movies

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

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James...

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

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

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

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love at first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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

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

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...

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly...

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...

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

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...

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...

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.