Robert Benchley Movies

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

A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table...

A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

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...

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.

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...

Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...

Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who...

Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice...

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

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

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

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

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

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...

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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....