Robert Benchley Movies

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly...

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

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...

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

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...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

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...