Robert Benchley Movies

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

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.

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...

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...

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...

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

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...

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

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

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

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...

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

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...