Robert Benchley Movies

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

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

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

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

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...

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

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

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

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

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

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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....