Robert Benchley Movies

  • 1961
    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

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    Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years
  • 1943
    Flesh and Fantasy

    Flesh and Fantasy

    Flesh and Fantasy

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    Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who...

    Flesh and Fantasy
  • 1943
    Young and Willing

    Young and Willing

    Young and Willing

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    For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of...

    Young and Willing
  • 1982
    Showbiz Goes to War

    Showbiz Goes to War

    Showbiz Goes to War

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    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...

    Showbiz Goes to War
  • 1941
    Three Girls About Town

    Three Girls About Town

    Three Girls About Town

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    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...

    Three Girls About Town
  • 1944
    See Here, Private Hargrove

    See Here, Private Hargrove

    See Here, Private Hargrove

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    Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...

    See Here, Private Hargrove
  • 1941
    Nice Girl?

    Nice Girl?

    Nice Girl?

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    Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice...

    Nice Girl?
  • 1936
    Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

    Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

    Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

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    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...

    Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
  • 1945
    Week-End at the Waldorf

    Week-End at the Waldorf

    Week-End at the Waldorf

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    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...

    Week-End at the Waldorf
  • 1943
    Show-Business at War

    Show-Business at War

    Show-Business at War

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

    Show-Business at War
  • 1937
    Live, Love and Learn

    Live, Love and Learn

    Live, Love and Learn

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

    Live, Love and Learn
  • 1942
    Take a Letter, Darling

    Take a Letter, Darling

    Take a Letter, Darling

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    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...

    Take a Letter, Darling
  • 1926
    The American Venus

    The American Venus

    The American Venus

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    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...

    The American Venus
  • 1945
    Kiss and Tell

    Kiss and Tell

    Kiss and Tell

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    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...

    Kiss and Tell
  • 1938
    How to Read

    How to Read

    How to Read

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    Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

    How to Read
  • 1944
    Janie

    Janie

    Janie

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

    Janie
  • 1934
    Social Register

    Social Register

    Social Register

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    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....

    Social Register
  • 1944
    Song of Russia

    Song of Russia

    Song of Russia

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

    Song of Russia
  • 1938
    How to Figure Income Tax

    How to Figure Income Tax

    How to Figure Income Tax

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

    How to Figure Income Tax
  • 1937
    Sunday Night at the Trocadero

    Sunday Night at the Trocadero

    Sunday Night at the Trocadero

    3.81937HD

    A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more...

    Sunday Night at the Trocadero