Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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 Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

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...

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...

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

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

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

Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.

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

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

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

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

This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.