Franklin Pangborn Movies

Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune....

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

A scientist and a writer explain the various meteorological phenomena to Meteora, the goddess of weather, while giving an insight into the technology...

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...

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...

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the...

A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.

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...

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

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

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

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...

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a...

While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a...

A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.

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.

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...

A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.

College student, cattle baron, confused love story.