Robert Benchley Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...