Robert Benchley Movies

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

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...

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

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

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the...

A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table...

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

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 starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love at first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...

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...

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James...

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

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

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

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...

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly...