Franklyn Farnum Movies

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new dis...

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes...

This comedy-melodrama focuses on Marmaduke Grandon (Franklin Farnum),who's a drug store clerk with aspirations to be a movie star.

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romanticall...

An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two...

Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.

After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking...

Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie a...

Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth sim...

The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days...

A rancher moves to the city, and finds competition for the affections of an heiress in the form of a doppelganger.

A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from reachi...

Peter Drake meets and falls in love with Jackie Swazey, the daughter of a feisty suffragette and incipient politician. In order to impress her, he agr...

A publicist for a racy burlesque troupe romances the daughter of the head of The Purity League, an organization that wishes to see such shows banned.

In his will, Mr. Baird leaves his son Arnold just one seven-passenger auto and a hundred dollars to keep it filled up and in good repair. When James B...

A 1917 American silent comedy film

When Gregory Van Houten went to the country to recuperate, he intended to remain only a few weeks and then return to plunge into the swirl of city gai...

Love Never Dies was set in France, and convincingly so (which was not often the case in American-made films of this period). It is established in the...