Robert Benchley Movies

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

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

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

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

Mr Benchley first expounded his interesting theory in December 1931, and as it remains the clearest and most searching analysis of the situation yet...

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

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

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....

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...

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

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

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

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

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...