Franklin Pangborn’s pansies are one of the great joys of 30s cinema. Here is a little compilation of some of his best bits from Mitchell Liesen’s Easy Living, written by Preston Sturges.
Categories
A Pangborn Pansy
Franklin Pangborn’s pansies are one of the great joys of 30s cinema. Here is a little compilation of some of his best bits from Mitchell Liesen’s Easy Living, written by Preston Sturges.
9 replies on “A Pangborn Pansy”
[…] lips and precision double takes could be a proto-Jack McFarland. In films like the screwball comedy “Easy Living” (1937), Pangborn’s expert comedic chops “won hearts,” according to Russo, despite — or […]
[…] lips and precision double takes could be a proto-Jack McFarland. In films like the screwball comedy “Easy Living” (1937), Pangborn’s expert comedic chops “won hearts,” according to Russo, despite — or […]
[…] lips and precision double takes could be a proto-Jack McFarland. In films like the screwball comedy “Easy Living” (1937), Pangborn’s expert comedic chops “won hearts,” according to Russo, despite — or […]
[…] lips and precision double takes could be a proto-Jack McFarland. In films like the screwball comedy “Easy Living” (1937), Pangborn’s expert comedic chops “won hearts,” according to Russo, despite — or […]
[…] lips and precision double takes could be a proto-Jack McFarland. In films like the screwball comedy “Easy Living” (1937), Pangborn’s expert comedic chops “won hearts,” according to Russo, despite — or […]
[…] lips and precision double takes could be a proto-Jack McFarland. In films like the screwball comedy “Easy Living” (1937), Pangborn’s expert comedic chops “won hearts,” according to Russo, […]
[…] that hyperlinks to a short clip on Franklin Pangborn from this blog. Other articles on pansies, Pangborn, sissies and Easy Living here can be accessed by double-clicking on the highlighted […]
[…] I was also very excited to see the clip I’ve extracted below, another Pangborn pansy, but this time accompanied by what is clearly coded as a boyfriend. I thought I was discovering […]
[…] Pre-Code Cinema, in William Wellman’s A Star is Born, a compilation of his best bits from Easy Living, how he and other ‘effeminate’ character actors were deployed to butch up Fred Astaire […]