Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley gives a behind-the-scenes look at how animation is created.

Normal folk need never fear inanimate objects. Simply hide your real intentions from them, and this will prevent them from getting the upper hand regardless of the circumstances.

In this sequel to Waiting for Baby, Benchley explains in hilarious detail why the expectant father is the forgotten man.

Cohen Film Collection introduces this classic comedy short starring Robert Benchley

Cohen Film Collection introduces this classic short staring Robert Benchley.

Feeling jumpy and out of sorts? You won't be after laughing at Benchley's hilarious explanation of why you've been that way and what you can do about it.

Cohen Film Collection introduces this classic short starring Robert Benchley

Cohen Film Collection introduces this classic comedy short starring Robert Benchley

Cohen Film Collection introduces this classic comedy short starring Robert Benchley.

A 300-year-old witch wreaks havoc when she falls in love with a young politician.

Fred Astaire finds a new dance partner in Joan Leslie in this delightful wartime musical.

A hat-check girl at the famed New York Stork Club rescues who she believes to be an elderly tramp from drowning and winds up a millionaire.

Six struggling actors share an apartment under their landlady’s nose while they try to convince a theater producer to give them their big break.

Dartmouth football heroes Johnny Baker (William Gargan) and Sandy Brown (Joel McCrea) – famed for their Baker-to-Brown passing game – go their separate ways after graduation: Johnny to the editor's desk of a newspaper sports page and Sandy to the promotional schemes of a wrestling manager nicknamed Shifty. The friends' paths merge again when Johnny helps Sandy out of tough economic times, but their renewed friendship teeters toward permanent collapse when both men woo a lovely newspaper illustrator (Marian Marsh). David O. Selznick is executive producer of this pre-Code programmer, overseeing the array of visual flourishes conjured by Dudley Murphy (director of the following year's The Emperor Jones and a co director of the earlier avant-garde Ballet mécanique). Algonquin Round Table wit Robert Benchley makes his feature debut as an always-befuddled sportscaster.

The assassination of a Dutch mediator on the eve of World War II plunges an American reporter into the dangerous plot of a secret spy organization.

The lives of a stenographer, a movie star, a war reporter, and other guests and staff crisscross over three days at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.