Robert Benchley Movies

A Braodway 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...

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...

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

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

This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.

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...

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...

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

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

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

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 men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.