Robert Benchley Movies

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

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 man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

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

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

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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...

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

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

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.