Search results for "Franklin Pangborn"
Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero
IMDb: 7.6
101

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure….

Genre: Comedy, War
Stage Door

Stage Door

Stage Door
IMDb: 7.7
92

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Reveille with Beverly

Reveille with Beverly

Reveille with Beverly
IMDb: 6.5
78

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance, War
The Girl Downstairs

The Girl Downstairs

The Girl Downstairs
IMDb: 6.2
77

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 falling in love with…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
International House

International House

International House
IMDb: 7.1
68

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical…

Genre: Comedy
Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony
IMDb: 7.2
87

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Swing High, Swing Low

Swing High, Swing Low

Swing High, Swing Low
IMDb: 6.2
92

In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub…

5th Ave Girl

5th Ave Girl

5th Ave Girl
IMDb: 6.8
83

A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
IMDb: 6.5
90

Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Christmas in July

Christmas in July

Christmas in July
IMDb: 7.4
67

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest….

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas
IMDb: 7
99

Doris Day, in her film debut, plays Georgia Garrett, a singer sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager
IMDb: 7.9
117

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Genre: Drama, Romance
It Happened in Hollywood

It Happened in Hollywood

It Happened in Hollywood
IMDb: 6.3
67

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Sullivan’s Travels

Sullivan’s Travels

Sullivan’s Travels
IMDb: 7.9
91

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won’t be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey,…

Topper Takes a Trip

Topper Takes a Trip

Topper Takes a Trip
IMDb: 6.6
80

Mrs Topper’s friend Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes…

Lighthouse Love

Lighthouse Love

Lighthouse Love
IMDb: 5.8
18

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

Genre: Comedy
Carefree

Carefree

Carefree
IMDb: 7
83

Dr. Tony Flagg’s friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Horn Blows at Midnight

The Horn Blows at Midnight

The Horn Blows at Midnight
IMDb: 6.7
78

A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he’s Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus…

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Vivacious Lady

Vivacious Lady

Vivacious Lady
IMDb: 7.2
90

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Four’s a Crowd

Four’s a Crowd

Four’s a Crowd
IMDb: 6.4
92

Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Jean needs someone to save the paper…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Great Moment

The Great Moment

The Great Moment
IMDb: 6.3
83

The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Professional Sweetheart

Professional Sweetheart

Professional Sweetheart
IMDb: 6.2
73

Glory Eden (Ginger Rogers) is the star of Sponsored Radio show that requires Glory to live up to her pure, virginal, innocent image. Glory is at her breaking point and…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Strictly Dynamite

Strictly Dynamite

Strictly Dynamite
IMDb: 5.8
71

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

Genre: Comedy, Music
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife

Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife

Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
IMDb: 7.3
85

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn’t want to be only a number in the row of his…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Design for Living

Design for Living

Design for Living
IMDb: 7.5
91

An independent woman can’t chose between the two men she loves.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
My Dream Is Yours

My Dream Is Yours

My Dream Is Yours
IMDb: 6.6
101

Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson,…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans
IMDb: 6.5
79

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

Genre: Comedy, Romance
$1000 a Minute

$1000 a Minute

$1000 a Minute
IMDb: 6.2
70

Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Robert Pryor can’t spend $720,000 in twelve hours. If you’re asking “Why $720,000?”, the answer is:…

Genre: Comedy
The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick
IMDb: 7.2
72

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he’s occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he…

Genre: Comedy
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
IMDb: 7.2
71

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted…

Genre: Comedy
Her Man

Her Man

Her Man
IMDb: 6.5
83

A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.

Genre: Drama
Easy Living

Easy Living

Easy Living
IMDb: 7.6
88

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife’s just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Half Naked Truth

The Half Naked Truth

The Half Naked Truth
IMDb: 6.3
77

A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation.

Genre: Comedy, Romance