#franklin pangborn

[womansfilm]

Looove this Franklin Pangborn fourth wall break in easy living. The stock pansy knows all .. he is aware of the audience, of the narrative, and of his own oppression therein

#franklin pangborn

[citizenscreen]

Birthday remembrance - Franklin Pangborn #botd

#franklin pangborn #old hollywood

[letterboxd-loggd]

A Star Is Born (1937) William A. Wellman

November 29th 2023

#a star is born #1937 #william a. wellman #janet gaynor #fredric march #adolphe menjou #andy devine #lionel stander #may robson #edgar kennedy #elizabeth jenns #franklin pangborn #carole landis #dorothy parker

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#Vivacious Lady #Ginger Rogers #James Stewart #James Ellison #Beulah Bondi #Franklin Pangborn #Charles Coburn #Hattie McDaniel #George Stevens #1938

[character-actor-tournament]

Round 1, match 45

Franklin Pangborn vs Elsa Lanchester

#franklin pangborn #elsa lanchester #old hollywood #character actors #tournament poll

[oldshowbiz]

Richard Deacon told TV Guide that his acting heroes included Eric Blore and Franklin Pangborn

#Character Actors #Richard Deacon #eric blore #Franklin Pangborn

[raynbowclown]

A Girl a Guy and a Gob

A Girl a Guy and a Gob (1941) starring George Murphy, Lucille Ball, Edmond O’Brien A Girl a Guy and a Gob is a comedy romantic triangle. Hijinks ensue when a pert stenography is pursued by both her stuffy boss and a foot-loose sailor. (more…) “”

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#1941 #Doodles Weaver #Edmond O&039;Brien #Frank Sully #Franklin Pangborn #George Cleveland #George Murphy #Henry Travers #Irving Bacon #Lucille Ball #Marguerite Chapman #Nella Walker

[principiumindividuationis777]

#W.C. Fields #Franklin Pangborn #Never Give a Sucker an Even Break #1940s #publicity still #men's fashion #golf #interior decor #photography #black and white

[dimepicture]

#$1000 a minute #1935 #30s #bw #multi #gif #fashion show #fur #costume #lame #franklin pangborn #millinery #collar #evening

[vintagedreamsofsennett]

Roscoe Arbuckle(a flirt), Corinne Parquet(his wife), Agnes Neilson(his wife's mother), Alice Lake(pretty girl) in A Reckless Romeo (1917)

Franklin Pangborn(a flirt), Dorothy Granger(his wife), Cecil Cunningham(his wife's aunt), Toby Wing(pretty girl) in The Candid Camera (1932)

#a reckless romeo 1917 #the candid camera 1932 #dorothy granger #cecil cunningham #franklin pangborn #toby wing #agnes neilson #roscoe arbuckle #corinne parquet #alice lake

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

Bed of Roses

If you don’t take it too seriously, Gregory La Cava’s BED OF ROSES (1933, TCM) is a lot of fun (as are many of his films, though there are some you can take seriously). Constance Bennett, in confessional mode, stars as a streetwalker who has to jump into the Mississippi after rolling a john. She ends up on Joel McCrea’s cotton barge, and it would be love at first sight if she didn’t rob him first. Then she cons her way into becoming a wealthy man’s mistress, sleeping in a bed decorated with…well, just guess. She throws herself into the lower-class schemer role, but the film’s real treat is Pert Kelton as her partner in crime. Kelton is, if anything, even more cynical than Bennett, so she gets all the best lines, some of them decidedly risqué (it’s a pre-Code film). She also gets a great Mae West moment when she tells Bennett’s rich lover she wishes he had a twin and then walks off with her hips moving in double time. If you don’t recognize Kelton, it because you probably know her best as Mrs. Paroo in THE MUSIC MAN (1962) or, if you’re really old, as the original Alice Kramden, later Alice’s mother and the Spic and Span cleaning lady. La Cava’ s direction has his usual light touch, so the comic scenes land well, and he stages a great, kinetic Mardi Gras scene. The supporting cast includes Jane Darwell as a prison matron and Franklin Pangborn, who steals his one scene as a prissy floorwalker.

#pre-code movies #constance bennett #joel mccrea #gregory la cava #pert kelton #franklin pangborn #jane darwell

[byneddiedingo]

W.C. Fields and Franklin Pangborn in The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline, 1940)

Cast: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio, Jessie Ralph, Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard, Dick Purcell, Grady Sutton, Jack Norton. Screenplay: W.C. Fields. Cinematography: Milton R. Krasner. Art direction: Jack Otterson. Film editing: Arthur Hilton. Music: Frank Skinner. 

I watched The Bank Dick on election night in 2016 once it became apparent that the votes might take the depressing direction they did. Better a flamboyant fictional con man played by W.C. Fields than a real-life one, thought I. Fields is Egbert Sousé (though he insists the accent is grave, it's really aigu), ne'er-do-well paterfamilias of a dysfunctional household, who escapes from his nagging wife (Cora Witherspoon) and mother-in-law (Jessie Ralph) and his horrid daughters Myrtle (Una Merkel) and Elsie Mae (Evelyn Del Rio) to the corner saloon as well as a brief stint as a movie director that somehow leads to his employment as a detective in the local bank. (Honestly, never try to summarize the plot of one of Fields's movies.) It's all inspired, slightly surreal nonsense, adorned by characters with names like Og Oggilby (Grady Sutton), J. Pinkerton Snoopington (Franklin Pangborn), and A. Pismo Clam (Jack Norton). All I can say is that it made me laugh when I felt like crying. 

#The Bank Dick #Edward F. Cline #W.C. Fields #Franklin Pangborn

[citizenscreen]

A Franklin Pangborn ‘Singing Lesson’ from Hollywood magazine in 1939.

#franklin pangborn #old hollywood

[letterboxd-loggd]

My Man Godfrey (1936) Gregory La Cava

February 8th 2023

#my man godfrey #1936 #gregory la cava #william powell #carole lombard #alice brady #eugene pallette #gail patrick #mischa auer #jean dixon #alan mowbray #franklin pangborn #jane wyman

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#the bank dick #w. c. fields #una merkel #dick purcell #shemp howard #franklin pangborn #grady sutton #jessie ralph #cora witherspoon #edward f. cline #ralph ceder #1940

[tparadox]

The Bank Dick

Yesterday's Movies gets mixed up with The Bank Dick

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#1940 #40s #W.C. Fields #Grady Sutton #Franklin Pangborn #Russell Hicks