Franklin Pangborn Movies

A group of musicians is determined to appear on a radio program.

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

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

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

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 young lady is wooed by two men

Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl...

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford...

Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.

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

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to...

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the...

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner...

In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins...

A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise...

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her...