Franklin Pangborn Movies

Edgar Kennedy's wife decides he should do the housework for the day, the same day the piano tuner Franklin Pangborn comes by.

Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune....

A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

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.

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After...

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

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

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.

A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.

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

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.

Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.

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....

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a...

A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one...

Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up,...

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