Franklin Pangborn

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a...

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...

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull,...

A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the...

Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New...

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...

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only...

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying...

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

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...

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by...

New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in...

The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public...

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

Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor...

While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a...

The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.

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

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband...

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a...

A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

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...

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who...

A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at...

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

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost...

The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.

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...

An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves so the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.

A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an...

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a...

In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved...

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

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

Starring Bing Crosby as himself in a short comedy/romance telling a tale of mistaken identity. Two-reeler; directed by Mack Sennett

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...

An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

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 silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

Aspiring artist Edgar, with family in tow, relocates to Greenwich Village - according to his wife, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law the right...

After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.

After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe...

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.

Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her...

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

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

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...

Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything...

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...

Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as...

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

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid...

The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo...

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.

Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.

When the story begins, a newly married couple (Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe) board a train for their honeymoon. Soon they make friends with...

A young lady is wooed by two men

Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.

Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a...

When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by...

Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to...

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,...

When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.

Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke's boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn't come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the...

In the eighth of the series of short sound comedies, Ray Cooke as the office boy 'Torchy' is thought to be a whiz at polo -- don't ask; in these...

Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with...

One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund...

When the story begins, you learn that Torchy's boss has a problem with his blood pressure and the doctor recommends he take a rest. So, he plans on...

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In...

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

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

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.

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 musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.

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

A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.

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.

Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy

Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy,...

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

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

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite...

A woman, affectionately called Blondie by her husband, hires a cook called Blondie by both her boyfriends. When all five end up in the house at the...

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she...

A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he...

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

War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...

A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and...

Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her...

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his...

A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

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

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

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.

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

A Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and featuring Dorothy Granger.

Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which...

It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a...

Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime,...

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

A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.

Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry....

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

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 trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down...

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house,...

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.

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

Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless...

A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.

The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and...

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...

Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter,...

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

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his...

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

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

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...

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 young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a...

Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.

In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a...

In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording...

Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she starts sneezing, and hay...

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

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

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...

A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house...

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at...

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

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 dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's...

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

An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.

Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to...

A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.

A scientist and a writer explain the various meteorological phenomena to Meteora, the goddess of weather, while giving an insight into the technology...

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

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

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

A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very...

"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...

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...

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

A quirky short about Love and Liars.

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...

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...

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in...

After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries,...

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

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...

Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub...

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

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...

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His...

A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in...

Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...

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

Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann...

Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.

Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the...

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

College student, cattle baron, confused love story.

Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the...

Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to...

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...

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his...