Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

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

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

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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...

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

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

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...

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

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

A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...

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...

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

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...