Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

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's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

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

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able...

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

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

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...

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

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...

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.