Robert Benchley Movies

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....

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

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

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.

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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

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

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.