Robert Benchley Movies

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.

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.

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they...

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

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

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

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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...

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

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

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

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

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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...

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

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...