Franklin Pangborn Movies

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...

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

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

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

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime,...

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe...

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

An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in...

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

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his...

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie...

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 carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an...

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...