Robert Benchley Movies

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice...

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the...

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...

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...

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

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....

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...

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

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.

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...

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

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

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able...

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

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