Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A na-echeta Benchley nke ọma maka onyinye ya na "The New Yorker", ebe edemede ya, ma ọ bụ nke dị mkpa ma ọ bụ nke na-enweghị isi, metụtara ọtụtụ ndị ọchị ọchị nke oge a. O mekwara aha maka onwe ya na Hollywood, mgbe obere ihe nkiri ya "How to Sleep" bụ ihe ịga nke ọma na-ewu ewu ma merie Best Short Subject na
Ihe nrite Academy nke 1935 O mekwara ọtụtụ ihe nkiri ndị a na-agaghị echefu echefu dị ka Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) na "Nice Girl?" (1941). Ihe nketa ya gụnyere ọrụ ederede na ọtụtụ ihe nkiri dị mkpirikpi.