Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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

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

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

After aspiring singer Judy Peabody rescues the elderly J.B. Bates from drowning, she assumes that the disheveled man is a vagrant and goes back ...

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been ‘stolen’ by thugs. In Alaska to ...

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

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists’ films during the war years, this is ...

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls ...

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron’s personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He ...

After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can’t hold his cup still enough ...

Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn’t enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a ...

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.

Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than ...

Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her ...

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

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 ...

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of ...

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces ...

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest – one woman from each state of the United States – are welcomed to Palm Springs. ...

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

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That’s not ...

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

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps ...

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 ...

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and ...