Robert Benchley Movies

I Married a Witch

72/100

A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

The Major and the Minor

75/100

A woman disguises herself as a child to save on a train fare and is taken in charge by an army man who doesn't notice the truth.

The Reluctant Dragon

70/100

Humorist Robert Benchley learns about the animation process at Walt Disney Studios while trying to find the great man himself to pitch him the idea of making a cartoon about a shy dragon.

You'll Never Get Rich

69/100

In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.

The Sky's the Limit

66/100

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, ... See full summary »

Rafter Romance

67/100

A man and a woman share an apartment on a shift basis, never seeing each other; she dislikes him until they actually meet.

The Stork Club

65/100

A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment ... See full summary »

Bedtime Story

69/100

A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.

Live, Love and Learn

60/100

Bob is a struggling artist who paints for his own amusement. Julie is a rich society girl. When they meet, it is cute and they are soon married. Living in a small apartment with the ... See full summary »

Song of Russia

59/100

In June 1941, famed American symphony conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) is touring Soviet Russia with his manager Hank (Robert Benchley) when they go to a small rural town where famed... See full summary »

The Sport Parade

59/100

Spoiled sports hero learns hard lessons.

Young and Willing

58/100

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years...

Pan-Americana

53/100

The American journalist Jo Anne Benson works for a popular travel magazine. Jo Anne is looking for interesting stories and she travels, accompanied by the dashing photographer Dan Jordan, ... See full summary »

Her Primitive Man

57/100

A woman sets out to prove that a writer's ideas about "savages" are wrong. She goes to the jungle and finds a "primitive" man to bring back...

National Barn Dance

58/100

Made at the time when the National Barn Dance program, on radio station WLS (for World's Largest Store and owned by Sears & Roebuck) in Chicago, was as big on a national scale listening ... See full summary »

NBC/RCA Experimental Television Demonstration for the Press

Snafu

75/100

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge...