Robert Benchley Movies

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

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 ha...

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

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

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 h...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

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

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

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

In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

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