Robert Benchley Movies

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

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

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

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...

Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

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

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 revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

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

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....

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

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