Franklin Pangborn Movies

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

A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.

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

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...

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.

A quirky short about Love and Liars.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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...

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...