Robert Benchley Movies

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

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

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

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

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...

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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...

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...

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...