Robert Benchley Movies

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....

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

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

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

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...

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...

A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

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

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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

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

Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

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

Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.