Cliff Nazarro
Also Known As: Clifford Nazarro
Biography: Cliff Nazarro (January 31, 1904 – February 18, 1961) was an American double-talk comedian of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in films such as You'll Never Get Rich (1941) as Swivel Tongue, In Old Colorado (1941) as Nosey Haskins, and Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942) as Barney Google. Nazarro was the voice of Warner Bros. Cartoons' cartoon character Egghead. He made a few commercial recordings, including a 1932 date as vocalist with swing band Roane's Pennsylvanians and a 1942 comic recitation, "News of the World". He made several uncredited appearances on the Jack Benny Program during the 1930s and early 1940s. [biography (edited) from Wikipedia]
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Birthday: January 31, 1904
Deathday: February 18, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A-Lad-In Bagdad
Overview: Hayseed Egghead arrives in the big city of Bagdad and quickly wins a magic lamp in a carnival coin-operated crane game. The shady character who was playing the game before him covets the lamp, and tries to steal it. Egghead sees a poster: The sultan is having a contest for his daughter's hand in marriage. With his lamp, Egghead thinks he's a sure bet; he conjures up a magic carpet, and he's off. After a couple bad vaudeville acts, it's Egghead's turn, but in the meantime, the bad guy swapped the lamp for a coffeepot. Egghead is thrown out, then sees the bad guy using the lamp; Egghead breaks in, steals the lamp and the girl, and flies off. But she uses the lamp herself to conjure up a real hunk to replace the nerdy Egghead.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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The Penguin Parade
Overview: An evening at a night club for penguins, (and a walrus or two). The stage show includes an appearance by a penguin incarnation of Bing Crosby, who sings a jazzy version of, "When my dreamboat comes home". The band's three singers do a scat version as well. This is followed by a full swing band instrumental of the song which works the band into a "Hot Jazz" frenzy, literaly melting some of the instruments.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-23
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Believe It or Else
Overview: In this Ripley's Believe It or Not! parody, some of the supposed curiosities we are shown are a man who daily drinks fifty quarts of milk, the world's loudest hog caller, a human basketball, a new giant telescope showing life on Mars, and a man who saws people in half.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-03
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Cinderella Goes To A Party
Overview: An irreverent, animated modernization of the Cinderella story.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-03
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Paunch 'n' Judy
Overview: A father tries to take picture of his easily distracted daughter, which is made more difficult by an angry group of dogs.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Dive Bomber
Overview: A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Mr. Dynamite
Overview: A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Count Me Out
Overview: Egghead decides his road to riches is through a boxing correspondence course. When he graduates, he takes on champion Biff Stew. Biff pummels him mercilessly (the correspondence course record continues to coach him during the match), but by accident, he knocks Biff out until we see it was all in Egghead's head, after being knocked out by the practice equipment.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-17
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Swing Hostess
Overview: An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-08
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Call of the Canyon
Overview: A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Farm Frolics
Overview: A series of wacky vignettes involving farm animals.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-10
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Arise, My Love
Overview: A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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Trocadero
Overview: A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast. Hanging out in Hollywood's famed Trocadero restaurant and night-spot, he gets his story when "Troc" owner and band-leader Eddie LeBaron, relates to him the sage of the famed screenland nitery. And hears plenty of music furnished by four of the top name-bands in the land, including that of Bob Chester, who formed his own swing band in 1935 after being top saxophonist with the bands of Ben Pollack and Ben Bernie. Singer Ida James and the Chester band led off with "Shoo Shoo Baby" in their screen debut.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-24
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Blue Skies
Overview: Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-15
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Outside of Paradise
Overview: Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money enough for the passage to Ireland, but the band members decide to incorporate him, advancing him the fare for equal shares in the estate. In Ireland, Danny finds that his is only a half-share, and the other half belongs to Mavourneen Kerrigan and she has the exclusive right to sell or keep the property...which, despite his pleas, she refuses to do. She also declares him an undesired guest, objects to his presence and insists that he prepare his own meals. He does so in a large main hall, but can only make hamburgers.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-08
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Ding Dong Williams
Overview: Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion picture studio. The studio plans to use him and his six-piece band but his musical deficiencies are discovered and the plan scrapped. But the secretary of the head of the music department intercedes on his behalf and he is given a chance in the film.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-15
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Romance Rides the Range
Overview: Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arriving there with his double-talking friend Shorty, Barry learns that a parcel of his vast ranch has been fraudulently sold to Carol Marland and her ailing (and tiresome) young brother Johnny. Pretending he is only the foreman, and having his cowhands go along with it,Barry allows Carol and her whining, growing-ever-more-tiresome brother to believe that they are the actual owners in order to give him a free hand in running down the swindlers who victimized Carol who, with a brother like hers, was a victim to begin with.Barry learns that brothers Clem and Jonas Allen are the villains and,through a ruse in which they are led to believe there is a hidden treasure on the land they sold Carol, they try to buy it back bidding against Barry, who forces the price up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Porky's Preview
Overview: The audience enters Porky's movie theater, with a collection of quick gags: A firefly acting as usher, a kangaroo taking tickets and putting the stubs in her pouch, a chicken buying child tickets for her eggs. A skunk tries to buy a ticket, costing a nickel, but he only has one scent. He looks for a way to sneak in. Meanwhile, Porky introduces the show: a collection of cartoons, drawn as stick figures. At the end, the audience is all gone because the skunk managed to sneak in. Porky's cartoons include: Circus Parade, Choo-Choo Train, Soldiers (Marchin), Horse Race, and Dances (hula, Mexican hat, and ballet). All accompanied by a self-parody musical score.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-19
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The Singing Buckaroo
Overview: Barbara Evans has $25,000 and Gifford is after it. When his henchman fail to get it he refuses to pay them. They then decide to double cross him and get the money for themselves. Gordon is trying to protect Barbara and he must not only take care of the two henchmen, but also Gifford and his phony Sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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Sailors on Leave
Overview: If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-30
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Sniffles and the Bookworm
Overview: Literary characters come to life late at night in a bookshop, serenading Sniffles the mouse with swing music until the Frankenstein monster intrudes.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Forged Passport
Overview: Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-23
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Curtain Razor
Overview: Porky, a talent scout for "Goode and Korney Talent Agency," auditions various acts. A final gag has a wolf performing this "stupendous act" where he wears a devil hat, cape and the like, drinks nitroglycerin, gasoline and other explosive stuff, then swallows a match. KABOOM! Porky thinks that the act is really good until the wolf's ghost comes in and says that there's a catch... "I can only do it once!"(Source: bcdb.com)
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-21
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I'm from Arkansas
Overview: A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-31
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Rookies on Parade
Overview: The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending to boost the morale of their fellow draftees, our heroes stage a big musical show, which they eventually hope will graduate to Broadway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-16
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Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
Overview: Nazi spies mistake Snuffy Smith's moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formula."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-14
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The Night of January 16th
Overview: Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Billboard Frolics
Overview: Billboards come to life. Eddie Camphor and his "wioleen" player Rub-Him-Off do a song and dance to "Merrily We Roll Along" with new lyrics...
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-09
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Shantytown
Overview: Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-20
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In Old Colorado
Overview: Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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Blondie Goes to College
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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Stablemates
Overview: A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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'Neath Canadian Skies
Overview: Canadian Mountie investigates a murder posing as a criminal.
Genres: Crime Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-15
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Two Saplings
Overview: George and Cliff own a Greek restaurant. They go to the bank to apply for a loan and unexpectedly foil a robbery in the process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-06
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New York Town
Overview: Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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King of the Turf
Overview: Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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You'll Never Get Rich
Overview: A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-25
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Behind the Mike
Overview: Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-26
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Pardon My Stripes
Overview: Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-26
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Stars on Horseback
Overview: A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-23
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World Premiere
Overview: A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies also present!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-21
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Overview: In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-05
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Cinderella Meets Fella
Overview: Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets Prince Charming (Egghead).
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-23
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