Robert Benchley Movies

After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that the disheveled man is a vagrant and goes back to...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

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