Robert Benchley Movies

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

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...

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

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...

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

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

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

A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more...

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

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...

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

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

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

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...

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

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

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...