Robert Benchley Movies

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

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 comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

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

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...

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....

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

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

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

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 working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

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...

Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.