Franklin Pangborn Movies

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

Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy

After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries,...

Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a...

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.

At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. It seems as though there was a...

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...

Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

A woman, affectionately called Blondie by her husband, hires a cook called Blondie by both her boyfriends. When all five end up in the house at the...

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,...