Biography: From Wikipedia Judy Canova (November 20, 1913 – August 5, 1983), born Juliette Canova, (some sources indicate Julietta Canova), was an American comedienne, actress, singer, and radio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own self-titled network radio program, a popular series broadcast from 1943 to 1955. When bandleader Rudy Vallée offered the still-teenaged Canova a guest spot on his radio show in 1931, The Fleischmann Hour, the door opened to a career that spanned more than five decades. The popularity of the Canova family led to numerous performances on radio in the 1930s, and they made their Broadway theater debut in the revue Calling All Stars. An offer from Warner Bros. led to several bit parts before she signed with Republic Pictures. She recorded for the RCA Victor label and appeared in more than two dozen Hollywood films, playing leading roles as well as supporting parts, including Scatterbrain (1940), Joan of Ozark (1942), and Lay That Rifle Down (1955). In 1943, she began her own radio program, The Judy Canova Show, that ran for twelve years—first on CBS and then on NBC. Playing herself as a love-starved Ozark bumpkin dividing her time between home and Southern California. By the time her radio program ended in 1955, Canova made a smooth transition to television with appearances on The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Steve Allen Show, Matinee Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Make Room For Daddy,and other shows. In 1967, she portrayed Mammy Yokum in an unsold TV pilot adapted from Al Capp's Li'l Abner. She also worked on Broadway and in Vegas nightclubs through the early 1970s, touring with No, No Nanette in 1971. She appeared as a mystery guest on the TV show What's My Line on July 18, 1954. Canova is honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to the film & television Industry.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 20, 1913
Deathday: August 05, 1983
Popularity:
1976-07-06
Overview: Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman, his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-06
Popularity:
1960-07-21
Overview: From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-21
Popularity:
1942-07-15
Overview: An uninhibited Arkansas farmgirl discovers a group of Nazis operating in the United States. Director Joseph Santley's broad WWII comedy stars Judy Canova, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Jeffreys and Jerome Cowan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-15
Popularity:
1955-07-07
Overview: A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-07
Popularity:
1952-10-10
Overview: An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-10
Popularity:
1955-01-28
Overview: Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down an atomic missile gone astray arrive. When the trolley breaks down, Judy and Grandpa unwittingly install the engine from the nearby crashed missile.
Genres: Music Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-28
Popularity:
1935-07-06
Overview: A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-06
Popularity:
1941-04-12
Overview: An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-12
Popularity:
1937-08-04
Overview: An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-04
Popularity:
1935-05-25
Overview: At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-25
Popularity:
1937-12-03
Overview: "Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
Popularity:
1952-03-24
Overview: A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-24
Popularity:
1945-11-29
Overview: An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-29
Popularity:
1944-07-13
Overview: A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-13
Popularity:
1940-07-20
Overview: A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-20
Popularity:
1956-01-13
Overview: Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's spinach falls, it's up to Olive to save the day.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-13
Popularity:
1935-07-27
Overview: A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-27
Popularity:
1941-06-25
Overview: On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-25
Popularity:
1954-03-31
Overview: Judy is the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew "Cactus" Clayton. Now Clayton hopes to repay the favor, but first he must reclaim his stash of gold from the crooked Williams. Judy helps the old coot by taking on not only Williams, but duplicitous private detectives Walter Martin and Eddie Taylor, not to mention gangsters Spider Mike and Louie.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-31
Popularity:
1943-04-27
Overview: While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood "cowboy" star--whose offscreen image is exactly the opposite of his onscreen one--is saved from disaster by a gregarious local girl. She winds up becoming not only his leading lady in the movie but, because of a set of nutty offscreen circumstances, his fiancé in real life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-27
Popularity:
1960-01-01
Overview: A lost film featuring "Grand Ole Opry" style acts.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
Popularity:
1942-03-21
Overview: A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend's Army base.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-21
Popularity:
1935-12-01
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
Popularity:
1946-12-26
Overview: Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost town, she learns that a stipulation in the will is that she has to return the property to the rightful owners, an Indian tribe, before she gets the remaining inheritance
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
Popularity:
1942-03-05
Overview: Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and the kitchen's three screwball chefs, Chef Popodopolis, Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium. He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by band-leader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent.. Chick has a recording made of Bessie's voice and substitutes it for that of "Sugar" Caston, who is being sponsored by a big-time gangster and is set up to win. But members of a rival gang, out to get "Sugar", mistake Besiie for her.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
Popularity:
1943-09-05
Overview: Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-05
Popularity:
1951-10-20
Overview: A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-20
Popularity: