Robert Benchley Movies
- 1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Hollywood: The Selznick Years3.31961HD
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...
- 1943
Flesh and Fantasy
Flesh and Fantasy6.8441943HD
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...
- 1943
Young and Willing
Young and Willing4.6671943HD
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...
- 1982
Showbiz Goes to War
Showbiz Goes to War101982HD
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...
- 1941
Three Girls About Town
Three Girls About Town5.31941HD
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...
- 1944
See Here, Private Hargrove
See Here, Private Hargrove61944HD
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...
- 1941
Nice Girl?
Nice Girl?5.31941HD
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...
- 1936
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs11936HD
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...
- 1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
Week-End at the Waldorf61945HD
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...
- 1943
Show-Business at War
Show-Business at War71943HD
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
- 1937
Live, Love and Learn
Live, Love and Learn5.81937HD
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...
- 1942
Take a Letter, Darling
Take a Letter, Darling6.4171942HD
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...
- 1926
The American Venus
The American Venus01926HD
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...
- 1945
Kiss and Tell
Kiss and Tell5.61945HD
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...
- 1938
How to Read
How to Read5.21938HD
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
- 1944
Janie
Janie5.51944HD
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
- 1934
Social Register
Social Register4.51934HD
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....
- 1944
Song of Russia
Song of Russia81944HD
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...
- 1938
How to Figure Income Tax
How to Figure Income Tax61938HD
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.
- 1937
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Sunday Night at the Trocadero3.81937HD
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...