Robert Benchley Movies

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 Braodway 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

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

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

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