Franklin Pangborn Movies

An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.

A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.

When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement,...

Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song.

Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her...

A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.

Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie...

A scrapping married couple, Franklin Pangborn and Bernice Elliott, are going to Reno to get a divorce. They have a scheme in order to obtain cruelty...

Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the...

A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".

A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first...

Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy...

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the...

To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college...

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

After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip...