Franklin Pangborn — Actor (34)
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Honeymoon Lodge (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Honeymoon Lodge
director: Edward C. Lilley actor: David Bruce / Harriet Nelson …
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-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
director: Edward F. Cline actor: W.C. Fields / Gloria Jean …
other title: Gib einem Trottel keine Chance / Passez muscade …
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 boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
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Cradle Snatchers (1927) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cradle Snatchers
director: Howard Hawks actor: Louise Fazenda / J. Farrell MacDonald …
other title: Si nos maris s'amusent / 新旧恋の三段返し
To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college boys-- Henry Winton, Oscar, and Joe Valley-- to flirt with them at a house party. Joe Valley, who poses as a hot-blooded Spaniard, is vamped by Ginsberg in female attire, and Oscar, a bashful Swede, uses caveman methods when aroused. During a rehearsal of the party, the three husbands arrive, followed by their flapper friends, leading to comic complications.
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The Loud Mouth (1932) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Loud Mouth
director: Del Lord actor: Matt McHugh / Marjorie Kane …
other title: 大嘴巴
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 who can't keep a secret and is always getting himself in trouble with everyone he comes in contact with by shouting out his opinions and criticizing strangers to their face.
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Professional Sweetheart (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Professional Sweetheart
director: William A. Seiter actor: Ginger Rogers / Norman Foster …
other title: Novia profesional / 专业甜心 …
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, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
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The Headline Woman (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Headline Woman
director: William Nigh actor: Heather Angel / Roger Pryor …
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 to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
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Lady of the Pavements (1929) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Lady von der Straße
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Lupe Vélez / William Boyd …
other title: Die Lady von der Straße / 鳳閣情鴛 …
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 streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.