Robert Benchley Movies

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.

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

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

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

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle...

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

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

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

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...

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

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...

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...

Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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....