Robert Benchley Movies

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

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...

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....

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him 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...

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

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

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.