Robert Benchley Movies

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

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

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

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

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

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

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

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

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

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

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.

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...

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...

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

Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."

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