Robert Benchley Movies

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

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

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...

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the...

A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...

Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...

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...

A group of young stage hopefuls tries to persuade a theatrical producer to give them their big chance at stardom.

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 struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...

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

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

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

A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table...

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

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

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

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