Movies

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

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...

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.

In a Vienna apartment building, a handsome but conceited actor terrorizes a neighboring family into moving out. However, when he's found murdered,...

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope"...

In 1880s New York City newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing...

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie...

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

When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his...

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

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

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...