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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly...

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

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

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...

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

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 comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.