Robert Benchley Movies

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Being the desert...

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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...

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

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James...

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

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...

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

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

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

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

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly...