Robert Benchley Movies

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...

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

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

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

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

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

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

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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

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...

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

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 multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love at first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...

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

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

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...

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...