Robert Benchley Movies

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....

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

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

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...

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

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

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.