Robert Benchley Movies

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James...

Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay half fare home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself...

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

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...

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

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.

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...

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly...

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

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces...

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.

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.

Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.

Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.

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

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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