Robert Benchley Movies

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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...

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love at first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...

Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.

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

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

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

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

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

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

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

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

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...

A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

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

In New Orleans, young Kit Latimer, who loves and plays the African-American music of the city, moves to Chicago with her architect father, George....

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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