Robert Benchley Movies

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

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...

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

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle...

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...

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

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table...

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

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

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

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

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

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

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

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