Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, a newspaper columnist and an actor.
Movies6.6 1941 HD
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be...
Genre: Family
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6.834 1942 HD
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Fredric March
Movies5.3 1941 HD
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Deanna Durbin
Movies6.6 1941 HD
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Fred Astaire
Movies6.6 1946 HD
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...
Genre: Adventure
Cast: Bing Crosby
Movies6.1 1943 HD
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Fred Astaire
Movies7 1933 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Joan Crawford
Movies6.3 1937 HD
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...
Genre: Music
Cast: Robert Taylor
Movies7 1942 HD
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn't enough...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Ginger Rogers
Movies6.1 1941 HD
A Braodway 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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Fredric March
Movies6.303 1935 HD
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...
Genre: Adventure
Cast: Clark Gable
Movies6 1945 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ginger Rogers
Movies5.3 1941 HD
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...
Genre: Adventure
Cast: Joan Blondell
Movies6.8 1942 HD
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Genre: Music
Cast: Adolphe Menjou
Movies6.5 1942 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Rosalind Russell
Movies6.8 1940 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Rosalind Russell
Movies1 1943 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: William Holden
Movies6.5 1933 HD
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Ginger Rogers
Movies5.5 1945 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Betty Hutton
Movies4.8 1938 HD
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6.7 1943 HD
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who...
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Edward G. Robinson
Movies4.6 1928 HD
Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6.5 1936 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Montgomery
Movies6.8 1936 HD
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.8 1933 HD
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Genre: Adventure
Cast: William Gargan
Movies5.8 1937 HD
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Montgomery
Movies6.3 1935 HD
A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.9 1946 HD
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck
Movies6 1946 HD
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Joan Leslie
Movies5.5 1944 HD
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Joyce Reynolds
Movies1 1928 HD
Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6 1937 HD
Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies7 1940 HD
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Joel McCrea
Movies5.6 1945 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Shirley Temple
Movies7 1936 HD
Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.3 1932 HD
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Joel McCrea
Movies4.5 1934 HD
Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Colleen Moore
Movies3.6 1945 HD
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
Genre: Music
Cast: Phillip Terry
Movies5 1939 HD
Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1944 HD
Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies7 1943 HD
Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies7 1936 HD
This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.5 1938 HD
In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies4.5 1939 HD
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies8 1937 HD
A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies7 1936 HD
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies4.8 1944 HD
When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.1 1937 HD
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.8 1939 HD
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6 1944 HD
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Louise Allbritton
Movies1 1944 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Fred MacMurray
Movies1 1940 HD
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5 1945 HD
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Fred Allen
Movies1 1942 HD
After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink...
Genre:
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.2 1938 HD
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1944 HD
This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.
Genre: Music
Cast: Jean Heather
Movies8 1944 HD
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Robert Taylor
Movies5.4 1940 HD
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1939 HD
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies4.9 1945 HD
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
Genre: Music
Cast: Virginia Welles
Movies6.1 1945 HD
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Ed Gardner
Movies1 1933 HD
Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5 1938 HD
American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6 1939 HD
A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies3.5 1939 HD
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1941 HD
Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1938 HD
Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies4.5 1939 HD
Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6 1938 HD
The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies4 1943 HD
Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1935 HD
Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1942 HD
Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
Genre:
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6.5 1938 HD
Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1941 HD
Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6 1941 HD
In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies7 1943 HD
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Walt Disney
Movies6.8 1976 HD
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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Fred Astaire
Movies5.2 1941 HD
A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6.3 1942 HD
As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6 1940 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1938 HD
Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6.4 1987 HD
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Heywood Hale Broun
Movies8.8 2004 HD
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a...
Genre: Animation
Cast: Pinto Colvig
Movies1 1936 HD
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...
Genre:
Cast: Edmund Lowe
Movies6.3 1964 HD
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Clark Gable
Movies10 1982 HD
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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Bud Abbott
Movies1 1928 HD
The Spellbinder is a comedy short.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1929 HD
Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1929 HD
Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1929 HD
Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1935 HD
Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies4.2 1937 HD
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...
Genre: Music
Cast: Reginald Denny
Movies7.5 2007 HD
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Stacy Keach
Movies3.3 1961 HD
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Henry Fonda
Movies6 1945 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1938 HD
A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6 1944 HD
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Walker
Movies1 1945 HD
While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.8 1935 HD
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Edna May Oliver
Movies6.8 1936 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5 1932 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Spencer Tracy
Movies5.3 1932 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Joel McCrea
Movies8 1937 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies4.8 1944 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies4.8 1944 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.2 1938 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.5 1933 HD
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Robert Armstrong
Movies4.6 1928 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1939 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1926 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Esther Ralston
Movies1 1933 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies4.8 1938 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies4 1943 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.8 1939 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.8 1939 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.5 1938 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies8.8 2004 HD
Genre: Animation
Cast: Pinto Colvig
Movies6.3 1942 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1928 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1928 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1929 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1929 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1929 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1935 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies7 1936 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies7 1936 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.1 1937 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1938 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6.5 1938 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1938 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5 1938 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6 1939 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.4 1940 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1940 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies6 1940 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1941 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies5.2 1941 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1938 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies7 1940 HD
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Joel McCrea
Movies3.5 1939 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
Movies1 1945 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Robert Benchley
