Franklin Pangborn Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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....

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

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

College student, cattle baron, confused love story.

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...

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

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

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