Robert Benchley Movies

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

Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

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...

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

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

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

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able...