Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: E sili ona manatuaina Benchley ona o ana tusitusiga i le mekasini o le "The New Yorker", lea na taaʻina ai e le tele o tusitala o tala malie i ona aso nei ana tusitusiga, e tusa lava pe e faatatau i mataupu o loo tutupu i aso nei po o ni mea e lē talafeagai. Na ia faia foʻi se igoa mo ia lava i Hollywood, ina ua avea lana ata puupuu o le "How to Sleep" o se manuia lauiloa ma manumalo ai i le Best Short Subject i le
1935 Faailoga Taualoa a le Academy. Na ia faia foʻi ni ata mataʻina i ata tifaga e pei o le Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) ma le "Nice Girl?" (1941). O lona talatuu e aofia ai tusitusiga tusitusia ma le tele o ata puʻupuʻu.