Robert Benchley Movies

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

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...

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...

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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...

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...

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

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

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

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

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

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

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