Robert Benchley Movies
- 1940
Hired Wife
Hired Wife6.81940HD
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...
- 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...
- 1946
The Bride Wore Boots
The Bride Wore Boots5.91946HD
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
- 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...
- 1944
Janie
Janie5.51944HD
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
- 1938
How to Figure Income Tax
How to Figure Income Tax61938HD
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.
- 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.
- 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...
- 1942
Nothing But Nerves
Nothing But Nerves11942HD
After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink...
- 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...
- 1932
Sky Devils
Sky Devils5.51932HD
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...
- 1942
Syncopation
Syncopation6.81942HD
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
- 1939
How to Sub-Let
How to Sub-Let3.51939HD
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
- 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
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...
- 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...
- 1936
Piccadilly Jim
Piccadilly Jim6.51936HD
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...
- 1946
Janie Gets Married
Janie Gets Married61946HD
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
- 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...