Franklin Pangborn Movies

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

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

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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.