Robert Benchley Movies

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

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...

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle...

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

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...

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...

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

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

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

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

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

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

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...