Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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 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 aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...

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

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

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....

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink...

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

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

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

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