Robert Benchley Movies

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

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

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

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...

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...

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

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 a...

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

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 grou...

Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941),a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a doci...

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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

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

A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.