Franklin Pangborn Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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....

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...

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

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

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 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...

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

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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