Robert Benchley Movies

A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

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

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

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

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

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...

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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...

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.

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

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