Robert Benchley Movies

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...

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...

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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.

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

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

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...

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...

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

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

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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

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

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

A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

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.

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.