Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

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

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

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...

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...

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

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