Robert Benchley Movies

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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

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

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

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...

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

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...

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

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

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

Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.

Mr Benchley first expounded his interesting theory in December 1931, and as it remains the clearest and most searching analysis of the situation yet...

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...

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.