Movies: Robert Benchley

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 has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office....

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

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation....

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The...

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

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

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

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 a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romanc...

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

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 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of piqu...

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early....

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

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 Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation. Hilarity ensues....

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research o...

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. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it...

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

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

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

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