
Cliff Nazarro
Actor · 1904 – 1961 · New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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]
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Movie6.3DramaA 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.
Dive Bomber
1941 · 35 votes
Movie6.2ComedyRomanceJed 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.
Blue Skies
1946 · 29 votes
Movie6.5ComedyMusicA Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.
You'll Never Get Rich
1941 · 63 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceA dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Arise, My Love
1940 · 24 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaAn out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.
Swing Hostess
1944 · 5 votes
Movie5.8AnimationComedyBillboards 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...
Billboard Frolics
1935 · 13 votes
Movie6.6ComedyFamilyDagwood 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.
Blondie Goes to College
1942 · 9 votes
Movie8.5WesternA radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
Call of the Canyon
1942 · 2 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaCricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
1937 · 9 votes
Movie8.5ComedyRomanceVictor 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.
New York Town
1941 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaMason 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.
King of the Turf
1939 · 2 votes
Movie6.3AnimationComedyA series of wacky vignettes involving farm animals.
Farm Frolics
1941 · 16 votes
Movie6.5CrimeMusicLiz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
Shantytown
1943 · 2 votes
Movie6.3DramaA boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Stablemates
1938 · 3 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
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.
Two Saplings
1943 · 1 votes
Movie9.0AnimationComedyProfessor Owl is lecturing to his class of bird and animal students, when they students interrupt him with weather questions regarding what makes the north wind blow and what makes snow. As the good professor starts to explain this phenomenon, the scene shifts to the North Pole where little dwarfs are shown in the process of making snow, thunder and wind.
Snowtime
1938 · 1 votes
Movie6.3AnimationComedyLiterary characters come to life late at night in a bookshop, serenading Sniffles the mouse with swing music until the Frankenstein monster intrudes.
Sniffles and the Bookworm
1939 · 9 votes
Movie6.0RomanceComedyA town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
I'm from Arkansas
1944 · 7 votes
Movie8.0CrimeA ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
Mr. Dynamite
1941 · 2 votes
- MovieAnimation
Junior versions of Hollywood stars graduate. The headmaster, trying to hand out diplomas, is harassed by kids on the stage, leaving him fumbling with his loose toupee, spectacles and dentures.
Movie6.6AnimationComedyPorky, 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)
Curtain Razor
1949 · 16 votes
Movie5.8MysteryCrimeAccused 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.
The Night of January 16th
1941 · 6 votes
Movie6.9AnimationEgghead 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.
Count Me Out
1938 · 7 votes
Movie6.2AnimationEgghead obtains a magic lamp and proceeds to entertain the Sultan in order to win the hand of his beautiful daughter.
A-Lad-In Bagdad
1938 · 4 votes