Franklin Pangborn Movies

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

"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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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....

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...

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

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