Robert Benchley Movies

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...

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

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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...

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 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...

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

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

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.

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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