Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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...

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...

Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who...

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

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...

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...

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...