Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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 struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...

Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.

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

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...

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

A Braodway 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...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.

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

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...

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

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

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