Robert Benchley Movies

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

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love at first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...

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...

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

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

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

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

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

In New Orleans, young Kit Latimer, who loves and plays the African-American music of the city, moves to Chicago with her architect father, George....

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

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