Robert Benchley Movies

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...

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.

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...

After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that the disheveled man is a vagrant and goes back to...

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...

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...

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

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...

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

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

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

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...

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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