Franklin Pangborn Movies

A young lady is wooed by two men

In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording...

Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy

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 Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and featuring Dorothy Granger.

Fly-by-night stage producer Bob Grant inadvertently saves the life of small-towner Thomas Maxwell. The grateful Maxwell invites Grant to move in with...

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

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy...

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...

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

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,...

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...

A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.

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...

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.

Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.

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

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...

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...