Arnold Stang
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Biography: Arnold Stang (September 28, 1918 – December 20, 2009) was an American comic actor who played a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type. One of the most arresting facts about Arnold Stang is that he is perfectly happy with the role of Gerard on NBC's Henry Morgan Show. Unlike many actors and comedians who have climbed to fame with one particular role, Stang isn't afraid of becoming "typed." The small, economy-size, Arnold twenty-eight-year-old comic, who has been likened to a near-sighted chipmunk dragged out of the rain, has dispensed laughs on shows with many top comedians; yet every time he appears on a new television show, he points out with dismay, both the critics and the public "suddenly recognize me as 'fresh new talent.' Stang's career in show business began at a radio audition when he was eleven. Wearing heavy horn-rimmed eyeglasses and speaking in a voice somewhere between a quaver and a croak, Arnold began a serious recitation for the directors. They could not take him seriously. When they had recovered from spasms of laughter, they signed him up on the spot for a comic role, a "type" of role which Stang has been handling ever since.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 28, 1918
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 20, 2009
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The Man with the Golden Arm
Overview: When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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A Bicep Built for Two
Overview: From Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him off and takes over.The love-lorn Katnip is determined to best the muscle-bound cat and enlists the aid of Herman. Herman, with bad-intentions, puts Katnip through a muscle-building course which consists of weight-lifting, bar-chinning and equipment rigged with high explosives.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-07
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Mousieur Herman
Overview: Herman and Katnip in an art school.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-25
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Cat In The Act
Overview: Unaware that Katnip is the night watchman, Herman takes his three nephews to Paramount Pictures Studios on a sightseeing trip. They sneak in and find fake alligators and a fake King Kong, but a real live Katnip. Herman promises to make Katnip a movie star if he will let them go.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-22
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From Mad to Worse
Overview: The mice are having a great time playing on a train in a department store's toy department until night watchman Katnip comes along.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-16
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Land of Lost Watches
Overview: Little Billy and Isabel catch Red Lantern, the Magic Fish. He takes them to the Land Of The Lost to meet King Find All, Rosita Wristwatch, and Wally Pocketwatch.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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My Sister Eileen
Overview: Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-24
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Skidoo
Overview: Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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Wrong Way Kid
Overview: Chris is an insecure boy who, after an encounter with a 203-year-old bookworm, begins developing his self-confidence; he does things the wrong way: derrierewards, frontwards, upside down, inside out, etc.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-16
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The Marry-Go-Round
Overview: Popeye wants to propose to Olive, but can't work up the nerve. His fellow sailor, Shorty, helps him.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-31
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No Man's Valley
Overview: Elliot, a rare California condor, must find a hideaway for endangered animals before man drives them over the brink into extinction.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-23
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Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Overview: His Mama is the only one who love Baby Huey, an overgrown clumsy ugly duckling. The other Mamas and their broods shun him like the plague and make his little life miserable. But when a ferocious fox attacks the barnyard, Huey comes to the rescue of one and all. Huey is a hero basking in his new-found popularity.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-03
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Dondi
Overview: World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-26
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Pinocchio in Outer Space
Overview: Pinocchio tries to save the Earth from Astro the Space Whale
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Overview: Beverly hills dowager leaves everything to Benny the Ball because her only rightful heir, her niece Amy, is missing. But that's only if Benny stays alive for 48 hours. If not, evil butler Snerdly and his mad Russian Wolfhound are next in line - and he's quick to pull every trick in the book to do poor Benny in and the troop sets off to rescue Benny and find the lost heir Amy.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-20
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Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
Overview: The Primm family moves into an old brownstone house on East 88th Street, where they find a crocodile named Lyle in their bathtub.
Genres: Animation Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-18
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Overview: The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
Genres: Fantasy Family Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-07
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The Mini-Munsters
Overview: Animated telefilm based on characters from The Munsters. Originally aired as part of the ABC Saturday Superstar Movie series.
Genres: Horror Comedy Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-27
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Seven Days' Leave
Overview: Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen. Not wanting to disrupt his planned marriage to Mapy, Johnny must figure out how to concoct a temporary marriage-of-convenience with the descendant -- who turns out to be the beautiful Terry Havelock-Allen.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Two Gals and a Guy
Overview: A singing couple gets their own television show, and the strains of putting on a TV show every week starts to jeopardize their relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-01
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The Fourth King
Overview: The animals decide they must send a representative after the three wise men begin following the star of Bethlehem. Uno, the Lion, arrogantly decides he should be the one to go, and that he does not need any help. Feathers, who brought Jesus's birth to the attention of the animals, insists on traveling with him, and soon he is followed by a beaver, a rabbit, and a turtle.
Genres: Adventure Music Family Comedy TV Movie Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Moving Aweigh
Overview: Popeye and Shorty help Olive move. Unfortunately, they start by running into a police car, and keep running afoul of the officer.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-22
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Hercules in New York
Overview: Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-23
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The Voice of the Turkey
Overview: A Paramount Noveltoon (production number P10-1) that has a farmer fattening up a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, but when he starts to sharpen his axe, the turkey gets wise and manages to escape with the aid of a ghostly disguise.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-13
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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Ghost Dad
Overview: Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of financial straits when he is suddenly killed in a taxi accident. With the aid of a paranormal researcher, Elliott attempts to complete the deal from the beyond, ensuring his family will be taken care of.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-29
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Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar
Overview: In this musical gem, big-hearted Jubal Bristol (Arnold Stang) takes it upon himself to mount a country and western benefit concert after the opera company that his wife (Pamela Hayes) booked suddenly backs out. Along with country icons Minnie Pearl, Dottie West, Connie Smith and Faron Young, the film features great tunes such as "Born to Lose," "Abilene" and "Young Love." Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey (of Bowery Boys fame) portray stagehands.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-29
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Cheese Burglar
Overview: While cats and dogs are natural enemies, such is not the case in the house where Herman the mouse lives. They are very good friends indeed, are work together to make Herman's life a hard life. Herman tries to break up their friendship, and divert their attention from guarding the cheese in the refrigerator, and almost succeeds but they make up in time to prevent Herman getting the cheese. They give chase and Herman takes refuge in a jug of wine.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-21
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Saved by the Bell
Overview: Herman the mouse installs a bell on a cat to help his mice friends.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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It's Only Muscle
Overview: This RKO Pathe Screenliner film presents a parody of bodybuilder Charles Atlas. Atlas was an Italian American man best remembered as the developer of a specific bodybuilding method and associated exercise programs. Featuring comedy actor Arnold Stang, the film portrays a young man who joins a gym to gain muscles, defeat a bully, and get women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-12
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George Romero's Golden Tales 3
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
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Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Overview: A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Overview: Raggedy Ann and Andy, along with other toys, reside in the nursery of a little girl named Marcella. During Marcella's seventh birthday, Babette, from France, is introduced as the new doll from a large package. Meanwhile, the lecherous Captain Contagious kidnaps Babette in his pirate ship and escapes from the nursery. Ann and Andy must explore and find Babette in the Deep Deep Woods to save her.
Genres: Animation Adventure Music Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Overview: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-28
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Naughty But Mice
Overview: Herman, the city-slicker mouse (looking like a cross between James Cagney and Lee Tracy) visits his barn-mice cousins in the country.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-09
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So This Is New York
Overview: A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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Dennis the Menace
Overview: Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-09
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Hello Down There
Overview: Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family agrees to move in, underwater mayhem occurs!
Genres: Comedy Music Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
Overview: Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon was Australia's first animated feature film,[2] released in 1972 and directed by Eric Porter. The two sequence directors were Porter's animation director Cam Ford (who had previously worked on the Beatles' Yellow Submarine) and Peter Gardiner.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-30
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Slippery Slippers
Overview: Loopy helps Prince Charming find his beloved Cinderella.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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Kooky Loopy
Overview: Loopy meets The Big Bad Wolf of the Little Red Riding Hood story and wants him to be a good wolf.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-16
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Beau Ties
Overview: Lulu is angry when she sees her boyfriend Fatso out with another girl. To make it up to Lulu, Fatso promises to marry Lulu when they grow up. However, while carving a love message into a tall tree, Fatso falls out of it and onto a small sapling. He passes out, and dreams of a hellish married life with Lulu, her dog, and their large family of Lulu look-alike daughters.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-19
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Let's Go Steady
Overview: After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled colleagues and use creative methods to promote their music.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-04
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Norman's Corner
Overview: A day in the life of a neurotic newsstand owner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-12
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Owly to Bed
Overview: A sleep-walking baby owl finds its way in Herman's house, and the friendly mouse makes friends with it. But the owl arouses Katnip, who takes out after it, but Herman always manages to rescue the little owl. The owl finally makes a nest for its self out of Katnip's fur which Herman has stripped off.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Herman the Catoonist
Overview: When the cartoonist takes a coffee break and leaves the office for a spell, Katnip and "Hoiman" break the 4th-dimesion wall (and several dozen real walls)with their escapades and conflicts and ideas exchanges. Katnip, per usual, gets the short end as Herman leaves him stuck in the ink bottle.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-15
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I Go Pogo
Overview: Pogo Possum is finagled into running for President of the United States in this stop motion animated film.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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