Elvia Allman
Also Known As: Elvia Beatrice Allman, Alvia Allman, Brenda & Cobina
Biography: Elvia Beatrice Allman was an American actress in Hollywood films and television programs for over 50 years. She is best remembered for her semi-regular roles on The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction and for being the voice of Walt Disney's Clarabelle Cow.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Enochville, North Carolina, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 19, 1904
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 06, 1992
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Overview: Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-06
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The Foolish Bunny
Overview: Told in flashback, th story explains why one of the bunnies in the classroom is so much bigger and older than his classmates. He devoted his early years to disrupting the class rather than studying and learning his lessons, with the result that he remained behind while the other students were promoted.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-26
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Lucky Pigs
Overview: A down-and-out family of pigs wins a sweepstakes, are immediately besieged by reporters and photographers, and then go on a wild spending spree, which soon exhausts their windfall-prize money. Than the tax collector shows up. After paying the taxes, the pigs are right back where they started from.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
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The Gorilla Hunt
Overview: A boxing kangaroo tricks his son into fighting when he really wants to be a violinist.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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The Egg Hunt
Overview: An English fellow lectures about his trip to the Gobi desert to find a dinosaur egg.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Pluto's Dream House
Overview: Mickey Mouse is about to build Pluto a doghouse when Pluto digs up a magic lamp that speaks in black dialect. It offers to do Mickey's bidding. Mickey's first wish is for a doghouse, and the lamp starts to work. Suddenly, the saw, the planer, the paintbrush and other tools magically begin working on their own. Finally, Pluto has a magnificent doghouse. The second wish? Mickey asks the lamp to give Pluto a bath. But things go awry when Pluto accidentally breaks Mickey's radio. Now, all sorts of conflicting messages are coming out of the speaker as Mickey tries to fix it. The lamp assumes all the voices are Mickey's and obeys them. Pluto is rolled with a rolling pin, punched with boxing gloves, frozen in an aspic and is about to be cut into thin slices before all ends happily.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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The Nutty Professor
Overview: A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-04
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Donald's Ostrich
Overview: Donald is the baggagemaster at a remote railway station. Part of the latest cargo shipment is Hortense the Ostrich, who is a bit too friendly with Donald, and who eats everything in sight, whether it's food or not (mostly not): a concertina, an alarm clock, some balloons, all of which start reacting when Hortense gets the hiccups.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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Time Out for Rhythm
Overview: A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-05
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Honeymoon Hotel
Overview: A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-03
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The Pleasure of His Company
Overview: Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, an urbane charmer, has been absent for most of the life of his daughter, Jessica, but he pops up again as she prepares to marry a California rancher. Though Pogo's ex-wife remains unimpressed, Jessica quickly falls for her father's charismatic offensive. Soon, however, his reappearance causes complications for the bride-to-be, and she must decide whether or not to go ahead with the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-01
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The Cat Came Back
Overview: Mama cat is teaching her kittens to catch mice. Meanwhile, across the basement, mama mouse is teaching her little ones how to avoid cats.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-08
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I Wanna Be a Sailor
Overview: Momma parrot is teaching her young-uns to say "Polly want a cracker" but little Peter doesn't want a cracker, he wants to be a sailor like dad. Mom tells him what a no-account his dad really was, setting sail for Hawaii ("no, Maw, it was Catalina") right after the kids were born. Peter is unswayed, and takes off. He turns a barrel into a boat, and crews it with an annoyingly talkative duckling, then sets sail on a lake. They get caught in a thunderstorm (the duck loves it). Peter calls for help and momma comes running, but the duck has already saved him. But he still wants to be a sailor.
Genres: Comedy Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-25
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Overview: The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-09
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Sis Hopkins
Overview: An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-12
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Week-End with Father
Overview: Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-01
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Shanghaied
Overview: Pirate Pete has kidnapped Mickey and Minnie and has them tied up. As Pete prepares to have his way with Minnie, Mickey escapes and gets a swordfish off the wall; a swordfight with Pete ensues. Mickey gets out of the cabin and on deck; he hoists Minnie up onto the mast. Pete summons his crew, and Mickey fights them off with a cannon, shooting pots and pans, a stove, and ultimately a harpoon before winning Minnie and the ship back for good.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-13
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Three Hearts for Julia
Overview: When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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A Night at Earl Carroll's
Overview: Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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Little Red Walking Hood
Overview: Red walks past a pool hall; the wolf sees her and pursues. But Red is oblivious to his come-ons.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-06
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Mickey's Mellerdrammer
Overview: Mickey Mouse and his friends stage their own production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Little Boy Boo
Overview: Foghorn Leghorn, shivering at the thought of another cold winter in his dilapidated roost, decides to court the well-to-do Miss Prissy, but Prissy won't marry him unless he can prove he'll be a good father to her son, a bespectacled egghead genius who, by scientific means, bests Foghorn in every game they play.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-05
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Mickey's Fire Brigade
Overview: Mickey, Donald and Goofy are a fire department. As you might expect, their attempts at fighting a boardinghouse fire are not particularly effective. They hear Clarabelle singing in the bathtub and rescue her, tub and all, against her will (she won't believe there's a fire).
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-03
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I Only Have Eyes for You
Overview: The iceman is in love with a pretty girl, and an old spinster is pining and cooking for him. But his dreamgirl prefers crooners like Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, or Eddie Cantor. After leaving her, he spots the sign of an imitator, and thinks he could ask him to do the crooning for him while he is trying to date his girl. The imitator accepts, and at first the trick is working, until the imitator gets too cold amid the ice in the back of the van and the girl gets suspicious.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5
Overview: The Looney Tunes Guide to Fairy Tales: In a storybook setting, Looney Tunes characters share with kids the necessary ingredients for a proper fairy tale
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-30
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Porky's Super Service
Overview: Porky owns a full-service gas station; he deals with a wide variety of problems, like a bump that migrates to different parts of the car. But his real nemesis is a supposedly sleeping baby in a car whose tire needs changing; in fact, the baby is wide awake and a real brat. Both Porky and the brat end up covered in grease; the irate mother drives off, but the child has tied a pump to a tire, which ends up pulling the whole station into the ground.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-03
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Swing It Soldier
Overview: In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her. The switcheroo causes the soldier her husband appointed as her unofficial guardian no end of confusion.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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The Prince and the Pauper
Overview: Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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Halloween with the New Addams Family
Overview: The original TV Addams Family members prepare for Halloween.
Genres: Comedy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-30
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Road to Singapore
Overview: Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Starstruck
Overview: The story, set in the twenty-second century, follows the adventures of the McCallister family, owners of McCallister's Midway Inn, a hotel-restaurant-saloon on an orbiting way station somewhere between Earth and Pluto.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-09
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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1
Overview: Two animated fables from the Disney studios. In 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Ichabod Crane is besotted by the lovely Katrina but has to contend with Brom Bones, the town bully. Their rivalry leads Crane to the legend of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman. In 'The Prince and the Pauper' Mickey, Goofy, Donald and Pluto star in Disney's re-working of the Mark Twain classic.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-07
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Johnny Cool
Overview: A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-02
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In Society
Overview: Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-16
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The Noose Hangs High
Overview: Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-05
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More Kittens
Overview: Thrown out of the house into the backyard, the three kittens are sheltered by a giant Saint Bernard and are tormented by a turtle and a bluebird.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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Goofy Groceries
Overview: Grocery store products come to life, along with caricatures of Jack Benny, Rochester and Ned Sparks, and take-offs on Superman and King Kong.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-29
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Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner
Overview: A live action piano player tells the story of a clothes-devouring moth who is on his way to marry a honey bee but gets caught by a black widow spider looking for a man of her own.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-22
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Woodland Café
Overview: Bugs of all kinds convene on a jazz club for an evening of fun.
Genres: Animation Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-13
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The Cagey Canary
Overview: A cat (not Sylvester) tries to capture a little canary bird (not Tweety), and not get caught by protective Granny.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-22
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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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The Old Mill
Overview: Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and dry as a storm approaches. As the thunderstorm worsens, the mill wheel begins to turn and the whole mill threatens to blow apart until at last the storm subsides.
Genres: Animation Thriller Family Music Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-05
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Porky's Moving Day
Overview: A woman's house, on the side of the cliff, is about to fall into the sea, due to waves washing away the cliff. In a panic, she call's Porky's moving company. Porky's assistant, a former boxer, starts swinging when he hears a bell until hit on the head, when he stops and says, "Okay, boss." They get to the house and have various adventures while moving the furniture, mostly because the entire house keeps tilting back and forth on the shaky ground.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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The Air Hostess
Overview: A little boy (as pilot/crew/mechanic) and a little girl (the title air hostess) do their best to get a delapitated airplane airborne and take their full load of adult passengers to their destination. They fail spectacularly.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-21
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Porky's Road Race
Overview: It's race day, and first prize is $2 million (less $1,999,998.37 in taxes). Porky's little car is matched against cars driven by stars of yesteryear, including Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. When the black #13 driven by "Borax Karoff" makes a bid for the finish line, can Porky fend him off?
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-07
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You Can't Run Away from It
Overview: A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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Bone Trouble
Overview: Pluto is on the run after stealing a bone from Butch the bulldog and finds refuge in a carnival Hall of Mirrors.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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