Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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 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...

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

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....

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

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

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

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...

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

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

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

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...