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
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast William Bendix · Una Merkel · Ray Collins · Gloria Henry
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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
Direction Frank Tashlin
Cast Robert Cummings · Barbara Hale · Bill Goodwin · Jeff Donnell
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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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