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Franklin Pangborn (January 23, 1889 – July 20, 1958) was an American comedic character actor famous for playing small but memorable roles with comic flair. He appeared in scores of feature films playing essentially the same character: prissy, polite, elegant, highly energetic, often officious, fastidious, somewhat nervous, prone to becoming flustered but essentially upbeat, and with immediately recognizable high-speed, patter-type speech. He typically played an officious desk clerk in a hotel, a self-important musician, a fastidious headwaiter, an enthusiastic birdwatcher, and the like, and was usually put in a situation of frustration or flustered by the antics of others. Pangborn was an effective foil for many major comedians.
Franklin Pangborn Biography / Wiki
| Name | Franklin Pangborn |
| Also Know | Joseph Franklin Pangborn, Franklyn Pangborn, Frank Pangborn |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Newark, New Jersey, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1889-01-23 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 69 |
| Deathday | 1958-07-20 |
Franklin Pangborn Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Captain Hits the Ceiling | Jimmy Martin | 1935-07-09 | 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…. |
| My Friend from India | William / Tommy Valentine | 1927-12-18 | Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything ab… |
| My Grandfather’s Clock | Dr. Watkins | 1934-10-27 | At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. Seems as if there is a second will… |
| Poor Aubrey | Aubrey Piper | 1930-01-30 | A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money…. |
| Light House Love | Pvt. Jerry Stone | 1932-05-06 | Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol…. |
| Lighthouse Love | Pvt. Jerry Stone | 1932-05-06 | Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol…. |
| Jimmy’s New Yacht | Everett | 1932-06-03 | A young lady is wooed by two men… |
| Tee for Two | Henry | 1932-10-08 | 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…. |
| Doctor’s Orders | 1932-06-08 | Doctor’s Orders is a 1932 comedy… | |
| A Blonde for a Night | Hector | 1928-02-25 | After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband’s fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde…. |
| Over the Counter | Drake’s Assistant | 1932-10-15 | In this musical short, the son of a department store owner replaces the regular sales girls with chorus girls…. |
| What Price Taxi | Taxi Boy | 1932-08-13 | Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde…. |
| The Chumps | Eddie Gray | 1930-07-16 | When the story begins, a newly married couple (Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe) board a train for their honeymoon. Soon they make friends with wh… |
| Torchy’s Kitty Coup | Office Manager | 1933-01-22 | 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 busine… |
| Torchy’s Loud Spooker | Office Manager | 1933-06-25 | When the story begins, you learn that Torchy’s boss has a problem with his blood pressure and the doctor recommends he take a rest. So, he plans on ta… |
| Breakfast in Bed | John | 1930-11-16 | 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 sa… |
| Hollywood and Vine | Reggie | 1945-04-25 | A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted … |
| Blue of the Night | Gilbert Sinclair | 1931-09-13 | Starring Bing Crosby as himself in a short comedy/romance telling a tale of mistaken identity. Two-reeler; directed by Mack Sennett… |
| Art in the Raw | 1933-02-23 | Aspiring artist Edgar, with family in tow, relocates to Greenwich Village – according to his wife, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law the right environ… | |
| Tell It to a Star | Horace Lovelace | 1945-08-16 | Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment’s nightclub. She gets a chance when her w… |
| The Loud Mouth | 1932-06-16 | 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 wh… | |
| Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case | Charley Towne | 1941-12-18 | The Carter Case was the second and last Republic film based on the popular radio series Mister District Attorney. Like the first entry, this one is pl… |
| Menu | John Xavier Omsk (uncredited) | 1933-09-23 | A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion…. |
| Next Door Neighbors | Landlord | 1931-01-28 | Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song…. |
| The Giddy Age | George | 1932-09-25 | A quirky short about Love and Liars…. |
| Two Weeks to Live | Mr. Pinkney | 1943-02-26 | When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perfo… |
| The Girl in the Pullman | Hector Brooks | 1927-10-31 | 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 t… |
| Bad Housekeeping | Piano Tuner | 1937-03-05 | Edgar Kennedy’s wife decides he should do the housework for the day, the same day the piano tuner Franklin Pangborn comes by…. |
| Reveille with Beverly | Vernon Lewis | 1943-02-04 | 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 n… |
| Manhattan Love Song | Garrett Wetherby | 1934-04-29 | After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe th… |
| Tomorrow’s Youth | Thornton | 1934-10-14 | A look at how his parents’ divorce affects the life of a young boy…. |
| Dream Stuff | Gordon | 1933-05-11 | Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can’t get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl fr… |
| Not So Dumb | Leach | 1930-02-02 | Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she’s not so dumb after all…. |
| The Cradle Snatchers | Howard Drake | 1927-05-28 | To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives -Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd- arrange with three college boy… |
| It Happened in Hollywood | Mr. Forsythe | 1937-09-07 | A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound…. |
| Living on Love | Ogilvie O. Oglethorpe | 1937-11-12 | A man and woman, who’ve never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film “Rafter Romance”…. |
| Allergic to Love | Stewart Ives III | 1944-07-21 | Newlywed bliss surround O’Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she starts sneezing, and hay … |
| Swing Banditry | Radio Announcer (uncredited) | 1936-09-09 | A group of musicians is determined to appear on a radio program…. |
| Sing, Bing, Sing | Herbert | 1933-03-23 | 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, … |
| Reckless Age | Mr. Thurtle | 1944-08-01 | Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one … |
| Strictly in the Groove | Cathcart | 1942-11-20 | College student, cattle baron, confused love story…. |
| Torchy | Office Manager | 1931-10-04 | Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter…. |
| Torchy Passes the Buck | Office Manager | 1931-12-06 | 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 frien… |
| Torchy Turns the Trick | Office Manager | 1932-02-07 | 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 … |
| Torchy’s Night Cap | Office Manager | 1932-04-03 | 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 … |
| Torchy Raises the Auntie | Office Manager | 1932-05-01 | 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, the… |
| Torchy’s Two Toots | Office Manager | 1932-06-06 | When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it’s up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite…. |
| Torchy’s Busy Day | Office Manager | 1932-10-02 | Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke’s boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn’t come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the o… |
| Torchy Rolls His Own | Office Manager | 1932-10-20 | 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 short… |
| Torchy Turns Turtle | Office Manager | 1933-04-23 | One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund Breese… |
| King Kelly of the U.S.A. | J. Ashton Brockton | 1934-09-15 | A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny–and bankrupt–kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daught… |
| Hail the Conquering Hero | Reception Committee Chairman | 1944-08-09 | Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to … |
| Sullivan’s Travels | Mr. Casalsis | 1941-11-30 | 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 a… |
| The Mandarin Mystery | Mellish | 1936-12-23 | Ellery Queen sets out to solve a mystery involving a valuable stamp…. |
| Easy Living | Van Buren | 1937-07-16 | 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 … |
| Design for Living | Mr. Douglas | 1933-12-29 | An independent woman can’t choose between the two men she loves…. |
| All Over Town | The Costumer | 1937-08-09 | Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted…. |
| A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob | Pet Shop Owner | 1941-03-14 | 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 shows up as h… |
| High Hat | Renaldo Breton | 1937-01-01 | An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio…. |
| Rich Relations | Mr. Dwight | 1937-02-01 | A secretary finds herself being romanced by a “ladies man”. What she doesn’t know is that it’s her boss who really loves her…. |
| Flirtation | Veterinarian | 1934-11-09 | 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…. |
| My Best Gal | Mr. Porter | 1944-03-28 | A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend’s musical…. |
| Where Did You Get That Girl? | Digby | 1941-01-03 | 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 contra… |
| Honeymoon Lodge | Cathcart | 1943-07-23 | Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-d… |
| The Eternal Melody | The Cat Lover | 1949-12-02 | A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals…. |
| Hollywood Trouble | Tailor | 1935-01-01 | An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school…. |
| See My Lawyer | B.J. Wagonhorn | 1945-03-09 | 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 own… |
| The Bank Dick | J. Pinkerton Snoopington | 1940-11-29 | 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 g… |
| Topper Takes a Trip | Louis – Hotel Manager | 1938-12-29 | 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 … |
| The Half Naked Truth | Hotel Clerk | 1932-12-16 | 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…. |
| I’ll Be Yours | Barber | 1947-02-02 | A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue…. |
| Hats Off | Mr. Churchill | 1936-12-05 | The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Al… |
| Weekend for Three | Number Seven, Old Field Inn Waiter | 1941-12-12 | 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 a… |
| Call Out the Marines | Wilbur | 1942-02-13 | Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she’s a spy…. |
| The Important Witness | Groom | 1933-07-15 | 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 she… |
| Obliging Young Lady | Professor Gibney | 1942-04-01 | A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents’ divorce…. |
| Bed of Roses | Floorwalker | 1933-06-29 | A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin…. |
| Doughnuts and Society | Benson | 1936-03-27 | Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, … |
| Young and Beautiful | Radio Announcer | 1934-09-16 | Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in… |
| Moonlight Masquerade | Fairchild | 1942-06-10 | Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester’s daughter, approa… |
| Exit Smiling | Cecil Lovelace | 1926-11-06 | Silent comedy about the travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company…. |
| The Unchained Goddess | the Cloud Painter (voice) | 1958-02-12 | A scientist and a writer explain the various meteorological phenomena to Meteora, the goddess of weather, while giving an insight into the technology … |
| Bachelor Daddy | Williams, Club Manager | 1941-06-04 | The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby…. |
| The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | Formfit Franklin | 1947-04-04 | Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, de… |
| Christmas in July | Radio Announcer | 1940-10-25 | 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 Ho… |
| Carefree | Roland Hunter | 1938-09-02 | 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 misunder… |
| Just Around the Corner | Waters | 1938-11-11 | Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones…. |
| Holy Matrimony | Duncan Farll | 1943-08-24 | An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications…. |
| The Girl Downstairs | Adolf Pumpfel | 1938-12-23 | 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 falli… |
| Professional Sweetheart | Herbert Childress | 1933-06-09 | Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor’s product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality,… |
| 5th Ave Girl | Higgins | 1939-09-22 | A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family…. |
| A Lady Surrenders | Lawton | 1930-10-06 | A wealthy industrialist’s wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she’s left him for good, so he mar… |
| Getting Gertie’s Garter | Algy Brooks | 1927-02-28 | Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph… |
| A Woman of Experience | Hans | 1931-08-06 | It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nu… |
| Dangerous Number | Hotel Desk Clerk | 1937-01-22 | Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. … |
| Eight Bells | Finch | 1935-04-10 | A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner’s daughter’s fiancé may take charge…. |
| On Trial | Turnbull | 1928-12-01 | A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very in… |
| Finger Prints | The Bandoline Kid | 1927-01-08 | A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money…. |
| Step Lively, Jeeves! | Head Waiter | 1937-06-30 | A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune…. |
| The Headline Woman | Hamilton | 1935-05-14 | When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father’s paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping… |
| Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife | Assistant Hotel Manager | 1938-03-25 | 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… |
| Never Give a Sucker an Even Break | The Producer | 1941-10-10 | 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 by little… |
| The Horn Blows at Midnight | Radio Engineer / Sloan | 1945-04-28 | 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 exactl… |
| Four’s a Crowd | Preston | 1938-08-04 | A publicist falls for his most difficult client’s daughter…. |
| Vivacious Lady | Apartment Manager | 1938-05-13 | College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer…. |
| She Married an Artist | Paul | 1937-11-27 | Because Thornwood’s portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which p… |
| Hit Parade of 1941 | Carter | 1940-10-14 | In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking… |
| Sunny | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1930-11-09 | A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family…. |
| College Rhythm | Peabody | 1934-11-23 | The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After gra… |
| Public Deb No. 1 | Bartender | 1940-09-13 | When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his c… |
| Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 | Franklin Pangborn | 1939-04-08 | 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 Thomos… |
| Lady of the Pavements | M’sieu Dubrey, Dance Master | 1929-01-22 | Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a “girl of the … |
| Now, Voyager | Mr. Thompson | 1942-10-22 | A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise…. |
| The Great Moment | Dr. Heywood | 1944-07-18 | 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… |
| Romance on the High Seas | Rio Hotel Clerk | 1948-06-25 | Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband che… |
| Cockeyed Cavaliers | Town Crier | 1934-06-29 | Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King’s physicians…. |
| Swing High, Swing Low | Henri | 1937-03-12 | 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 i… |
| A Fool’s Advice | Egbert – Hotel Clerk | 1932-02-20 | An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city’s upcoming mayoral election…. |
| Her Man | Sport | 1930-09-21 | A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor…. |
| Calendar Girl | Dilly Dillingsworth | 1947-01-31 | 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. They… |
| Tango | Oscar, the Photographer | 1936-02-13 | 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…. |
| Cheer Up and Smile | Professor | 1930-06-22 | When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone’s amazement, especiall… |
| Love on Toast | Finley | 1937-12-03 | The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a “Mr. Manhattan” and “Miss Brooklyn” for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Man… |
| Never a Dull Moment | Sylvester | 1943-11-19 | Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers)…. |
| Don’t Gamble with Love | Salesman | 1936-02-28 | Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to st… |
| Wild Poses | Otto Phocus | 1933-10-28 | Spanky’s parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer…. |
| Down Memory Lane | archive footage | 1949-08-01 | 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… |
| Hollywood Victory Caravan | Railroad Agent | 1945-09-30 | A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan…. |
| My Dream Is Yours | Sourpuss Manager | 1949-04-15 | 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 Yo… |
| The Flame of New Orleans | Bellows | 1941-07-07 | In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain…. |
| Stage Door | Harcourt | 1937-10-07 | 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 the… |
| Lover Come Back | Hotel desk clerk | 1946-06-21 | A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful…. |
| Dangerous Holiday | Doffle | 1937-06-06 | A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home…. |
| You Came Along | Hotel Clerk | 1945-07-04 | War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute “chaperone” Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob’s a cheerful Lothario with … |
| The Life of the Party | Beggs | 1937-09-03 | A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found…. |
| Turnabout | Mr. Pingboom | 1940-05-17 | Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other’s life…. |
| $1000 a Minute | Reville | 1935-10-21 | Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can’t spend $720,000 in twelve hours…. |
| International House | Hotel Manager | 1933-05-27 | 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 … |
| Many Happy Returns | Allen’s Secretary | 1934-06-08 | 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 usual… |
| Strictly Dynamite | Mr. Bailey | 1934-05-11 | A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian…. |
| Tillie the Toiler | Perry Tweedale | 1941-08-07 | 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 friend… |
| Always Goodbye | Bicycle Salesman | 1938-06-24 | Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is… |
| Doctor Rhythm | Mr. Stenchfield (Store Clerk) | 1938-05-06 | Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her…. |
| It’s All Yours | Schultz | 1937-09-01 | Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, n… |
| Three Blind Mice | Clerk | 1938-06-18 | 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 an… |
| Two Guys from Milwaukee | Theatre Manager | 1946-07-26 | Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the “real” America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the micro… |
| Headline Shooter | Adolphus G. Crocker | 1933-07-28 | A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot…. |
| Broadway Serenade | Gene, Collier’s Composer | 1939-04-07 | A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer … |
| Spring Parade | Wiedlemeyer | 1940-09-27 | In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she wil… |
| Unknown Blonde | Male Co-Respondent | 1934-04-23 | An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting–or making up–evidence in divorce cases finds that he’s framing his own daughter…. |
| She Had to Eat | Mr. Phoecian-Wylie | 1937-07-02 | 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 con… |
| George Washington Slept Here | Mr. Gibney | 1942-10-30 | New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill’s knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsy… |
| She’s Dangerous | Fashion Designer | 1937-01-24 | A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves…. |
| Give Us This Night | Forcellini’s Secretary | 1936-03-06 | After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Meriv… |
| When Love Is Young | John Dorman | 1937-03-26 | 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 m… |
| My Man Godfrey | Guthrie (uncredited) | 1936-09-02 | Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a “forgotten man” to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a… |
| Joy of Living | Orchestra Leader | 1938-05-06 | Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic… |
| She Married Her Boss | Window Dresser (uncredited) | 1935-09-19 | A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his sp… |
| What’s Cookin’? | Professor Bistell | 1942-02-20 | J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the c… |
| To Mary – with Love | Guest | 1936-08-01 | Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin… |
| Three Smart Girls | Jeweler | 1936-12-20 | The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with… |
| Sweepings | Photographer (Uncredited) | 1933-04-14 | Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the busine… |
| Thrill of a Lifetime | Sam Williams | 1937-12-03 | “Howdy” Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He i… |
| Danger – Love at Work | Train dining car headwaiter | 1937-09-30 | A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family…. |
| The Palm Beach Story | Manager | 1942-08-28 | Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be… |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Hamilton Montmarcy | 1938-03-18 | Rebecca’s Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secr… |
| The Story of Mankind | Marquis de Varennes | 1957-11-08 | The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil…. |
| Crazy House | Hotel Clerk | 1943-10-08 | Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson’s names eva… |
| The Villain Still Pursued Her | Bartender (uncredited) | 1940-10-11 | Victorian melodrama gets a big send-up in this spoof production of the old play “The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved.” The play within the movie is the… |
| We Have Our Moments | Joe | 1937-03-28 | A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down the… |
| Parachute Jumper | Man in Private Office (uncredited) | 1933-01-28 | An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob…. |
| Flying Down to Rio | Hotel Manager Hammerstein (uncredited) | 1933-12-22 | A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil…. |
| A Star Is Born | Billy Moon (uncredited) | 1937-04-27 | Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido… |
| I’ll Take Romance | Kane’s Secretary | 1937-11-17 | Theater manager James Guthrie’s (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, how… |
| Only Yesterday | Tom (Uncredited) | 1933-11-01 | On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in h… |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | The Tailor (uncredited) | 1936-04-09 | 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 bi… |
| Imitation of Life | Mr. Carven (uncredited) | 1934-11-23 | A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face fami… |
| Stage Door Canteen | Franklin Pangborn | 1943-06-24 | A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati… |
| She Couldn’t Take It | Spot’s Secretary | 1935-10-08 | The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-cent… |
| Going Hollywood: The ’30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 | Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get… |
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