Robert Benchley Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

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

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

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

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...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

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

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