Movies: Robert Benchley

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

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 competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the empl...

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

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off....

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 more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer th...

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

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 new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than s...

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short....

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

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

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 to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that...

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 of the ways that a government investigative committee has been interrogating its witnesses. Joe then...

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. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it...

This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began....

The Spellbinder is a comedy short....

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

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 Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation. Hilarity ensues....

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

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned....