Robert Benchley Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

In New Orleans, young Kit Latimer, who loves and plays the African-American music of the city, moves to Chicago with her architect father, George....

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...

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

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

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

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

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

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...

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

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

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

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.