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

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid...

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

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

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...

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...

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

College student, cattle baron, confused love story.

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...

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

Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.

Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives...

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

A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

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

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

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

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....

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