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...

A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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...

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 man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

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

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...

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

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...

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

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

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...