Screenplay: Frank Tashlin

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


The Paleface

1948 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Jane Russell · Robert Armstrong · Iris Adrian

Plot Bob Hope -in his finest role as Painless Potter- plays a nervous dentist who becomes a gritty gunfighter when he marries Calamity Jane (Jane Russell), a trouble-shooting woman, as a...

5.3

204 votes

5.3

204 votes

The Fuller Brush Girl

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Lucille Ball · Eddie Albert · Carl Benton Reid · Gale Robbins

Plot Scatterbrained Sally Elliott gets a job as a Fuller brush girl and, as expected, her attempts at selling cosmetics door-to-door are disastrous. Things get worse when one of her customers...

5.2

24 votes

5.2

24 votes

Son of Paleface

1952 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Bob Hope · Jane Russell · Roy Rogers · Douglass Dumbrille

Plot In this sequel to "The Paleface", Bob Hope and Jane Russell return as the lead characters. Hope plays Junior Potter, who returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere...

5.1

201 votes

5.1

201 votes

Caprice

1967 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Doris Day · Richard Harris · Ray Walston · Jack Kruschen

Plot Comedy-thriller starring Doris Day as an industrial designer who gets herself into a whole heap of trouble when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company in Paris.

5.0

145 votes

5.0

145 votes

The Shakiest Gun in the West

1968 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Alan Rafkin

Cast Don Knotts · Barbara Rhoades · Jackie Coogan · Don 'Red' Barry

Plot Jesse W. Haywood graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west "to fight oral ignorance." Meanwhile stagecoach robber Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing is offered a pardon if...

4.3

29 votes

4.3

29 votes

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

1968 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Bob Hope · Phyllis Dillier · Dick Sargent · Gina Lollobrigida

Plot Sgt. O'Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to bring the two basics of life to his fellow servicemen, women...

4.1

27 votes

4.1

27 votes

Kill the Umpire

1950 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

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Private Snafu: The Home Front (S)

1943 · Movie · 4 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Plot A homesick Pvt. Snafu learns that his family are almost as commited to the war efforts as himself.

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Private Snafu (TV Series)

1942 · Series · 4 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Friz Freleng · Frank Tashlin · Bob Clampett

Plot Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, that were produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War...

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Porky's Poultry Plant (S)

1936 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Plot Porky is raising chickens, ducks, and geese. Many birds have fallen victim to the hawk, Porky's going to do everything he can to fight back. He takes to the air,...

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Marry Me Again

1953 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Robert Cummings · Marie Wilson · Ray Walker · Mary Costa

Plot A pilot discharged from the Korean War is disappointed to discover that his fiancée has since become independently wealthy thanks to a $1 million inheritance.

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A Woman of Distinction

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Rosalind Russell · Ray Milland · Edmund Gwenn · Janis Carter

Plot Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a...

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The Good Humor Man

1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Jack Carson · Lola Albright · Jean Wallace · George Reeves

Plot Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie...

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Delightfully Dangerous

1945 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Jane Powell · Ralph Bellamy · Constance Moore · Morton Gould

Plot Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is...

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Miss Grant Takes Richmond

1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Lucille Ball · William Holden · Janis Carter · James Gleason

Plot A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring...

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The Fuller Brush Man

1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction S. Sylvan Simon

Cast Red Skelton · Janet Blair · Don McGuire · Hillary Brooke

Plot Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts...

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The First Time

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

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Variety Girl

1947 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Mary Hatcher · Olga San Juan · DeForest Kelley · Frank Ferguson

Plot Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange...

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The Lemon Drop Kid

1951 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield · Frank Tashlin

Cast Bob Hope · Marilyn Maxwell · Lloyd Nolan · Jane Darwell

Plot When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally steers Moose Moran's girl away from a winning bet, he is forced to come up with $10,000 to repay the angry gangster. Fortunately it's...

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The Lady Said No (S)

1946 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Plot Pepito approaches a beautiful senorita who icily rebuffs him, but he is persistent and she allows him to take her to an upscale restaurant, where Pepito can not pay the...

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