Franklin Pangborn Movies

Fly-by-night stage producer Bob Grant inadvertently saves the life of small-towner Thomas Maxwell. The grateful Maxwell invites Grant to move in with...

An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.

Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives...

A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.

The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr....

A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.

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...

Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations...

A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.

Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy

A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted...

"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He...

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

Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that...

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.

Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.

In this musical short, the son of a department store owner replaces the regular sales girls with chorus girls.

At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. It seems as though there was a...