Robert Benchley Movies

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

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

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

A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

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

Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry...

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

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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 lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...

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...

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of...

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...

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

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

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

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...

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