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1. Dancing Lady (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson
Votes: 2,682
2. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Passed | 120 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders
Votes: 23,766 | Gross: $3.48M
3. I Married a Witch (1942)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward
Votes: 9,546 | Gross: $0.31M
4. The Major and the Minor (1942)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley
Votes: 7,655 | Gross: $6.38M
5. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 8,654
6. The Reluctant Dragon (I) (1941)
Approved | 74 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
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.
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting, Ub Iwerks, Jack Kinney | Stars: Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant
Votes: 3,822 | Gross: $0.87M
7. You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
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.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard
Votes: 2,873
8. China Seas (1935)
Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize Gaskell's ship.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
Votes: 2,952
9. Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field
Votes: 1,155
10. Omnibus (1952–1961)
55 min | Drama, History, Music
Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
Stars: Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, Joseph N. Welch, Helen Hayes
Votes: 218
11. Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
Passed | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The misadventures of a group of diverse guests at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson
Votes: 1,343 | Gross: $9.51M
12. The Sky's the Limit (I) (1943)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days off.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan
Votes: 1,224
13. Road to Utopia (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke
Votes: 3,756
14. Kiss and Tell (1945)
90 min | Comedy
15-year-old Corliss Archer and 17-year-old Mildred Pringle are best friends and get into some mischief together which causes their parents to fight over who is a bad influence on whom. ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Shirley Temple, Jerome Courtland, Walter Abel, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 298
15. Piccadilly Jim (1936)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
In London, an American street caricaturist falls in love with a young woman who suddenly disappears, prompting him to develop a comic strip based on a "From Rags to Riches" family, that he does not know is hers, causing her embarrassment.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore
Votes: 449
16. Live, Love and Learn (1937)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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 »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley, Helen Vinson
Votes: 459
17. Syncopation (1942)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, History, Music
Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie) from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock market crash, the depression and the ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, George Bancroft, Todd Duncan, Connee Boswell
Votes: 332
18. The Stork Club (1945)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
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 »
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Robert Benchley
Votes: 744
19. Hired Wife (1940)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
CEO Stephen marries his secretary Kendal in name only, an arrangement made to protect his finances from an attempt at a hostile business takeover. Once the threat is neutralized, he asks Kendal for a divorce but she refuses.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Virginia Bruce, Robert Benchley
Votes: 461
20. Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Passed | 110 min | Musical, Romance
Steve Raleigh wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee, however his wife Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 1,357
21. Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane, George Meeker
Votes: 897
22. Duffy's Tavern (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Musical
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Ed Gardner, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Paulette Goddard
Votes: 252
23. Song of Russia (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Propaganda film from WW2, designed to raise the awareness of the American public regarding USSR's fight against Nazi Germany.
Directors: Gregory Ratoff, Laslo Benedek | Stars: Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, John Hodiak, Robert Benchley
Votes: 317
24. The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesn't care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesn't feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles
Votes: 524
25. The American Venus (1926)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Esther Ralston, Lawrence Gray, Ford Sterling, Fay Lanphier
Votes: 54
26. NBC/RCA Experimental Television Demonstration for the Press (1936 TV Movie)
40 min | Family, Music
Stars: Eddie Albert, Robert Benchley, Grace Bradt, Charles Fuqua
27. It's in the Bag! (1945)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix
Votes: 633
28. Nice Girl? (1941)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A young girl finds herself attracted to one of her father's business partners.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack
Votes: 387
29. Young and Willing (1943)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
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 the Paramount productions that was sold... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward
Votes: 320
30. Bedtime Story (1941)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 711
31. Three Girls About Town (1941)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
To save the reputation of the hotel where they are employed, sisters try to cover up a murder.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Joan Blondell, John Howard, Binnie Barnes, Janet Blair
Votes: 354
32. Practically Yours (1944)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, War
A presumed-dead World War II pilot's last words are misquoted as a declaration of love for his co-worker, forcing him to keep up the ruse when he returns home alive.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Gil Lamb, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 193
33. Janie Gets Married (1946)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Married life isn't as blissful as either Dick or Janie had hoped. Dick is hired to write filler for his father-in-law's newspaper, but is never allowed to prove his real worth. Janie has to... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding
Votes: 275
34. Janie (1944)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Janie is a scatterbrained, high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. World War II causes the establishment of an Army camp just outside town. Janie and her ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Alan Hale
Votes: 490
35. Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
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 end up falling in love.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey, Constance Moore
Votes: 605
36. Snafu (1945)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Romance, War
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 in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Moss | Stars: Robert Benchley, Barbara Jo Allen, Conrad Janis, Nanette Parks
Votes: 23
37. Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Music
The Brian Sisters are also featured in this short.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Reginald Denny, George Hamilton, Louis & Celeste, Connee Boswell
Votes: 326
38. Sky Devils (1932)
Passed | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Trying to desert their draft into the army, Wilkie and Mitchell stow away on a ship that takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidentally destroy an ammunition dump.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Spencer Tracy, William 'Stage' Boyd, George Cooper, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 143
39. Dark Magic (1939)
Passed | 10 min | Comedy, Short
Joseph A. Doakes goes into a toy shop looking for a gift for his 12-year-old son, and the clerk shows him a box of magic tricks. After a store employee demonstrates several of them, Doakes ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Benchley, Ruth Lee, John Scarne
Votes: 147
40. Top of the Town (1937)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Music
Diana Borden (Doris Nolan, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "something" artistic and ... See full summary »
Directors: Ralph Murphy, Walter Lang | Stars: Doris Nolan, George Murphy, Ella Logan, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 84
41. Her Primitive Man (1944)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Romance
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, unaware that it is actually the writer himself disguised as a "savage."
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Louise Allbritton, Robert Paige, Robert Benchley, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 39
42. See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Robert Walker, Donna Reed, Keenan Wynn, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 555
43. National Barn Dance (1944)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
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 »
Director: Hugh Bennett | Stars: Jean Heather, Charles Quigley, Robert Benchley, Mabel Paige
Votes: 19
44. Blind Adventure (1933)
Approved | 65 min | Mystery
An American in London stumbles on a criminal ring.
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Roland Young, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 279
45. Pan-Americana (1945)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
American journalist Jo Anne Benson works for a popular travel magazine. Looking for interesting stories, she travels to South America, accompanied by dashing photographer Dan Jordan. Jo ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Phillip Terry, Audrey Long, Robert Benchley, Eve Arden
Votes: 119
46. Rafter Romance (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance
A man and a woman share an apartment on a shift basis, never seeing each other; she dislikes him until they actually meet.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, George Sidney, Robert Benchley
Votes: 888
47. Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Music
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.
Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Robert Benchley, Humphrey Bogart, Carmen Cavallaro, U.S. Maritime Service Training Station Choir
Votes: 243
48. Show-Business at War (1943)
17 min | Documentary, Short
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Director: Louis De Rochemont | Stars: Carole Lombard, Walt Disney, John Ford, Darryl F. Zanuck
Votes: 388
49. You'd Be Surprised (1926)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery
At first it was a theft, then murders began - and every witness is under threat.
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Raymond Griffith, Edward Martindel, Earle Williams, Tom McGuire
Votes: 85
50. How to Sleep (1935)
Passed | 11 min | Comedy, Short
A humorous look at the problems people have trying to sleep.
Director: Nick Grinde | Star: Robert Benchley
Votes: 737