Robert Benchley Movies

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

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

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

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....

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of...

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

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

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

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

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle...

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

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

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...

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the...

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...

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...

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