Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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.

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

Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry...

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.