Robert Benchley Movies

  • 1937
    Live, Love and Learn

    Live, Love and Learn

    Live, Love and Learn

    5.81937HD

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

    Live, Love and Learn
  • 1942
    Take a Letter, Darling

    Take a Letter, Darling

    Take a Letter, Darling

    6.51942HD

    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...

    Take a Letter, Darling
  • 1940
    That Inferior Feeling

    That Inferior Feeling

    That Inferior Feeling

    5.41940HD

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

    That Inferior Feeling
  • 1933
    Blind Adventure

    Blind Adventure

    Blind Adventure

    5.51933HD

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

    Blind Adventure
  • 1944
    Practically Yours

    Practically Yours

    Practically Yours

    01944HD

    In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

    Practically Yours
  • 1936
    Piccadilly Jim

    Piccadilly Jim

    Piccadilly Jim

    6.51936HD

    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...

    Piccadilly Jim
  • 1943
    Show-Business at War

    Show-Business at War

    Show-Business at War

    71943HD

    A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

    Show-Business at War
  • 1943
    Young and Willing

    Young and Willing

    Young and Willing

    01943HD

    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...

    Young and Willing
  • 1940
    Hired Wife

    Hired Wife

    Hired Wife

    6.81940HD

    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...

    Hired Wife
  • 1933
    Rafter Romance

    Rafter Romance

    Rafter Romance

    6.51933HD

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

    Rafter Romance
  • 1936
    How to Be a Detective

    How to Be a Detective

    How to Be a Detective

    6.61936HD

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

    How to Be a Detective
  • 1944
    Janie

    Janie

    Janie

    5.51944HD

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

    Janie
  • 1932
    Sky Devils

    Sky Devils

    Sky Devils

    5.51932HD

    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...

    Sky Devils
  • 1939
    How to Sub-Let

    How to Sub-Let

    How to Sub-Let

    3.51939HD

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

    How to Sub-Let
  • 1938
    How to Figure Income Tax

    How to Figure Income Tax

    How to Figure Income Tax

    61938HD

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

    How to Figure Income Tax
  • 1945
    The Stork Club

    The Stork Club

    The Stork Club

    5.51945HD

    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...

    The Stork Club
  • 1938
    How to Watch Football

    How to Watch Football

    How to Watch Football

    4.81938HD

    Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

    How to Watch Football
  • 1945
    Week-End at the Waldorf

    Week-End at the Waldorf

    Week-End at the Waldorf

    61945HD

    Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...

    Week-End at the Waldorf
  • 1936
    How to Train a Dog

    How to Train a Dog

    How to Train a Dog

    71936HD

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

    How to Train a Dog
  • 1942
    Syncopation

    Syncopation

    Syncopation

    6.81942HD

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

    Syncopation