Robert Benchley Movies

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

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...

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...

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

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.

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only...

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

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces...

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

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

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

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

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

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

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