Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

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...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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....

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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...

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

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

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

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

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

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...