Robert Benchley Movies

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....

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

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

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

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...

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

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.