Florence Gill
Biography: Florence Gill was an English actress and voice actress. For Disney, she provided the voices of Walt Disney's Clara Cluck and The Wise Little Hen. She also provided the clucking sound effects of the condors, chickens, hens, and roosters in a number of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Chip and Dale, Pluto, and Silly Symphonies cartoons. She even appeared in live-action in the film, The Reluctant Dragon alongside Clarence Nash to cluck an operatic duet as Clara alongside Nash's Donald, most likely for Mickey's Grand Opera. Her interment was located at Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles, California.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 27, 1877
Deathday: February 19, 1965
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The Reluctant Dragon
1941-06-19
The Reluctant Dragon
Overview: Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-19
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Chicken Little
1943-12-17
Chicken Little
Overview: It's a peaceful day at the local poultry farm until Foxy Loxy happens along intent on a chicken dinner. He takes the advice of a book on psychology by striking "the least intelligent" first and convinces dim witted Chicken Little the sky is falling. Chicken Little spreads the word but when head man Cocky Locky proves the story to be false, Foxy Loxy spreads rumors that Cocky Locky isn't the smart chicken he appears to be, which leads to the ultimate undoing of the chickens at the hands of Foxy Loxy.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-17
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Mickey's Birthday Party
1942-02-07
Mickey's Birthday Party
Overview: The gang throws Mickey a surprise birthday party; his present is an electric organ, which Minnie plays while Mickey does a jazzy dance. Goofy bakes the cake, but keeps having trouble with it falling. The gang does a conga line to a Latin tune.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-07
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Orphans' Benefit
1941-08-11
Orphans' Benefit
Overview: Mickey and friends put on a revue for the orphans. Donald recites nursery rhymes, but the orphans torment him. Horace, Goofy, and Clarabelle do a dance number. Donald tries again. Clara clucks a song while Mickey plays piano (with support from an unseen orchestra). Donald returns, and the orphans finally send a parade of bricks and eggs on balloons over him and use slingshots to drop them on his head.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-11
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Symphony Hour
1942-03-20
Symphony Hour
Overview: Mickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an elevator, so they sound like toys. The sponsor hates it, but the audience loves it anyway.
Genres: Animation Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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The Nifty Nineties
1941-06-20
The Nifty Nineties
Overview: Mickey courts Minnie in the Gay Nineties: they take in a vaudeville show and go for a drive in his horseless carriage, to the strains of "While Strolling Through the Park" and "In the Good Old Summertime". Goofy rides by on a penny-farthing bicycle, and the whole Duck family rides by on a bicycle built for five.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
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The Fox Hunt
1938-07-29
The Fox Hunt
Overview: Donald controls the hounds , and Goofy is riding on Horace Horsecollar, as the fox outwits both of them.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Self Control
1938-02-11
Self Control
Overview: Donald hears a radio philosopher advise to laugh and count ten when he gets angry. He tries it successfully, then settles into his hammock for a nap. Between a caterpillar and the hen chasing it, he's soon tangled up and counting ten again. He also shrugs off a bird using his lemonade as a birdbath, but when a woodpecker attacks his apple tree, burying Donald in apples, he snaps.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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Contrary Condor
1944-04-21
Contrary Condor
Overview: Donald is trying to collect a condor's egg when the condor returns. He hides inside an empty egg and regrets this when the large, warm mother returns. He regrets it even more when he "hatches" and mama encourages him to fly. And mama proves to be even more protective than Donald would like.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-21
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The Wise Little Hen
1934-06-08
The Wise Little Hen
Overview: Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig and Donald Duck, but they refuse stating they each have a "tummy ache." When it comes time to harvest the corn, Peter Pig and Donald still refuse to help the Hen, so she and her chicks do the harvest by themselves. Finally, the hen cooks the corn and offers some to Donald and Peter Pig, but when they look more carefully they discover a surprise.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Chicken in the Rough
1951-01-19
Chicken in the Rough
Overview: Chip 'n' Dale wander into a farmyard to collect acorns. Dale mistakes an egg for a nut, but when he tries to demonstrate to a newly hatched chick how to get back into the egg, a rooster mistakes him for one of his chicks.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-19
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Golden Eggs
1941-03-07
Golden Eggs
Overview: Donald reads in his newspaper that eggs are really going up in value and the price is skyrocketing. Donald realizes that if he had some eggs, he would be quite the wealthy duck so he breaks into a nearby hen-house and collects as many eggs as possible putting them all in a huge basket. Unfortunately, a rooster standing guard makes his presence known and ejects Donald. The inventive duck is able to get back in disguised as a female chicken who the rooster falls for and dances with. Unfortunately, with the rubber glove comb constantly coming loose and a caterpillar falling down the back of his suit, he is ever at the risk of being discovered.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-07
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There's a Hole in the Old Oaken Bucket
1941-06-16
There's a Hole in the Old Oaken Bucket
Overview: A Soundie with Florence Gill, Redd Harper and The Sells.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-16
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Goofy's Glider
1940-11-22
Goofy's Glider
Overview: Yet another sport is made 'easy' for us by Goofy's demonstration how- never, ever, to try anything for real, least of all with a glider-flying machine he launches in ways that would kill anything but a cartoon character, such as a giant catapult and even a canon. Meanwhile Goofy proves totally incapable to control any of its movements in the air, let alone the 'landing' which is too messy even for a bombshell.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-22
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Mickey's Amateurs
1937-04-17
Mickey's Amateurs
Overview: Mickey hosts an amateur hour radio show.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-17
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Orphan's Benefit
1934-08-10
Orphan's Benefit
Overview: Donald and Mickey put on a charity show, for some orphans.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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Ever Since Eve
1937-07-15
Ever Since Eve
Overview: Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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Every Night at Eight
1935-08-02
Every Night at Eight
Overview: Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
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Birds of a Feather
1931-02-03
Birds of a Feather
Overview: Swans, peacocks, ducks, and more birds dance.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-03
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Way Down East
1935-10-25
Way Down East
Overview: A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Here Comes the Band
1935-08-30
Here Comes the Band
Overview: In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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Mickey's Grand Opera
1936-03-07
Mickey's Grand Opera
Overview: Mickey is preparing to conduct an opera when he chases Pluto away. Pluto crashes into a magician's props backstage and spars with the hat, its rabbits, and its doves. The opera begins: Clarabelle plays flute, Clara and Donald are the leads in Romeo and Juliet. Pluto follows the magic hat onstage, to Mickey's growing annoyance. The hat falls into a tuba, and soon the animals are filling the stage.
Genres: Animation Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-07
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Mother Pluto
1936-11-14
Mother Pluto
Overview: Pluto accidentally hatches a bunch of chickens and looks after them until the hen returns.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-14
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Funny Little Bunnies
1934-03-24
Funny Little Bunnies
Overview: We see bunny rabbits preparing for Easter, by making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-24
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The Greener Yard
1949-10-14
The Greener Yard
Overview: An old beetle (though he looks more like Jiminy Cricket) living next door to Donald Duck explains to his young charge why Donald's garden isn't the paradise it appears to be, by recounting his battles with Donald when he first discovered the garden, and his narrow escape assisted by a couple of birds.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-14
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Eagle Squadron
1942-06-16
Eagle Squadron
Overview: An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-16
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Obliging Young Lady
1942-04-01
Obliging Young Lady
Overview: A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
2004-05-31
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
Overview: Six more animated stories from the Disney studios. 'Three Blind Mousketeers' follows the misadventures of the outrageous trio. In 'Three Little Pigs', the Big Bad Wolf is doing his best to cunningly snare the guileless little pigs, while in 'Three Little Wolves' he goes one step further and decides to disguise and train his own offspring to lure them into his fold. 'Funny Little Bunnies' explores the mystery of the Easter Bunny. 'Lambert the Sheepish Lion' is a lovable, shy lion who plucks up the courage to protect his adopted family of ewes and rams. 'Ferdinand the Bull' gets in a scrape at a Madrid bullring when he gets stung by a bee and the crowd mistake him for a fighting bull.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-31
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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
2004-05-31
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Overview: Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a docile dragon the art of being a force to be reckoned with. In 'Mickey and the Beanstalk' (1947), Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck confront the fearsome Willie the Giant to try to retrieve the magical singing harp to Happy Valley.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-31
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Mickey's Family Album
1998-06-11
Mickey's Family Album
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Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-11
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She Had to Eat
1937-07-02
She Had to Eat
Overview: An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
1933-09-01
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Overview: A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937-08-11
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Overview: A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-11
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Cock o' the Walk
1935-11-30
Cock o' the Walk
Overview: The title character comes to town, complete with portable boxing ring. He grabs a local chicken and dances with her, inspiring several other barnyard animals to dance. But her rooster takes offense, and enters the ring to do battle.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-30
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The Eyes Have It
1945-03-30
The Eyes Have It
Overview: Donald receives a mail order hypnosis kit complete with hypnotic goggles and decides to test it on Pluto. Using the goggles, he convinces Pluto he is a mouse, a turtle, and a chicken. Each "transformation" Pluto undergoes Donald finds extremely funny so he keeps at it until he notices chicken Pluto getting into a fight with a rooster. Donald helps Pluto win the fight by making him think he's a lion but, unfortunately, the goggles break and Donald is chased about by Pluto until he regains his senses after a fall.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-30
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I Married a Witch
1942-10-30
I Married a Witch
Overview: A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Farmyard Symphony
1938-10-14
Farmyard Symphony
Overview: The farm comes to life, to various classical tunes. The high point is a rooster serenading a chicken, with all the animals joining in. But then comes the sound that's even more welcome to the animals: the farmer and his wife with food (the only actual words spoken).
Genres: Animation Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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The Ugly Duckling
1931-12-16
The Ugly Duckling
Overview: A black duckling is rejected by its mother, a hen, but manages to prove his worth when a tornado threatens the hen's chicks.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-16
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