Screenplay: Frank Tashlin

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Frank Tashlin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Mickey and the Beanstalk

1947 · Movie · 29 min. · United States

Direction Hamilton Luske · Bill Roberts

Plot Mickey, Donald and Goofy live in a land where everything is dried up and dead. The only food they have is one loaf of bread, even Donald's plans of killing...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Tit for Tat (S)

1935 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Charley Rogers

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Mae Busch · Charlie Hall

Plot Stan & Ollie have set up their own electrical repair store. Unfortunately, for them, the grocery store opposite is run by the man & wife they encountered with in "Them...

6.5

95 votes

6.5

95 votes

Mr. Duck Steps Out (S)

1940 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Jack King

Plot Donald is heading out for a night on the town with Daisy, but first he needs to ditch his resourceful nephews. Easier said than done. They get to Daisy's house...

6.5

147 votes

6.5

147 votes

The Bear That Wasn't (S)

1967 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot The Bear That Wasn't is a ten minute animated short about a bear that settles down for his long winter nap. While he is asleep the progress of man continues....

6.5

111 votes

6.5

111 votes

The Geisha Boy

1958 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Marie McDonald · Sessue Hayakawa · Barton MacLane

Plot Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.

6.5

158 votes

6.5

158 votes

A Corny Concerto (S)

1943 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Bob Clampett

Plot Making fun of "Fantasia", Bugs, Porky Pig and Porky's dog do a ballet after Elmer Fudd introduces "A Tale of the Vienna Woods." The second section, "Blue Danube", spoofs the...

6.4

247 votes

6.4

247 votes

Who's Minding the Store?

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Jill St. John · Agnes Moorehead · John McGiver

Plot Barbara (Jill St. John) is a very rich girl who falls in love with Norman Phiffier (Jerry Lewis), a poor young man. She doesn't tell him who she really is...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

The Fixer Uppers (S)

1935 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Charley Rogers

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Mae Busch · Arthur Housman

Plot Door-to-door greeting card salesmen Stanley and Oliver call upon Mrs. Pierre Gustave, a woman distraught over her husband's neglect. They agree to her plan to reclaim her husband's affection by...

6.4

45 votes

6.4

45 votes

Thicker Than Water (S)

1935 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction James W. Horne

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Daphne Pollard · James Finlayson

Plot Oliver's in trouble with his wife after missing a payment on their furniture, having given the money to Stanley, who used it instead to pay Mrs. Hardy for his room...

6.3

53 votes

6.3

53 votes

The Scarlet Hour

1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Carol Ohmart · Tom Tryon · Jody Lawrance · James Gregory

Plot A love triangle gets dangerous when murder is considered.

6.3

36 votes

6.3

36 votes

Speaking of the Weather (S)

1937 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Plot It's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Sisters-like performance by girls...

6.3

52 votes

6.3

52 votes

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

1957 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jayne Mansfield · Tony Randall · Betsy Drake · Joan Blondell

Plot A hilarious satire of 1950's television in which an ad man desperately tries to get a beautiful movie star to endorse his agency's new product. Rock Hunter's job is on...

6.3

264 votes

6.3

264 votes

The Disorderly Orderly

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Glenda Farrell · Everett Sloane · Karen Sharpe

Plot When he flunks out of med school, Jerome Littlefield goes to work as an orderly in a private rest home where he wreaks havoc for everyone concerned. Dr. Jean Howard...

6.2

436 votes

6.2

436 votes

Porky's Romance (S)

1937 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Plot The introduction cartoon for Petunia Pig deals with Porky's courtship with her. Once he's won her hand in marriage, he fantasizes about his future with her, which doesn't seem very...

6.2

68 votes

6.2

68 votes

Rock-a-bye Baby

1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Marilyn Maxwell · Salvatore Baccaloni · Connie Stevens

Plot Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) is a big fan of glamorous movie star Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell), a recent widow who gives birth to triplets--a fact she wants kept hush-hush since...

6.1

189 votes

6.1

189 votes

The Girl Can't Help It

1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Tom Ewell · Jayne Mansfield · Edmond O'Brien · Julie London

Plot A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend a recording star in 6 weeks. But what is he going to do when he finds...

6.1

186 votes

6.1

186 votes

One Touch of Venus

1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Robert Walker · Ava Gardner · Dick Haymes · Eve Arden

Plot A window dresser in a department store feels a strange attraction to a mannequin in the display. One night he impulsively kisses her; she comes to life and reveals herself...

6.0

647 votes

6.0

647 votes

Love Happy

1949 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

Artists and Models

1955 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Shirley MacLaine · Dorothy Malone

Plot Eugene and Rick are two struggling artists who share apartment. However, Rick has problems with that, because Eugene is obsessed with pulp fiction comic books and has nightmares because of...

6.0

498 votes

6.0

498 votes

Cinderfella

1960 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Jerry Lewis · Ed Wynn · Judith Anderson · Henry Silva

Plot The Cinderella story in form of a farce and with a guy in the leading role: Fowler is a clumsy simpleton, who has to care for his step mother and...

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes