Cliff Nazarro

Cliff Nazarro

Birthday: 1904-01-31

Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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]

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The Penguin Parade
The Penguin Parade

An evening at a night club for penguins, (and a walrus or two). The stage show includes an appearanc...

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A-Lad-In Bagdad
A-Lad-In Bagdad

Hayseed Egghead arrives in the big city of Bagdad and quickly wins a magic lamp in a carnival coin-o...

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Believe It or Else
Believe It or Else

In this Ripley's Believe It or Not! parody, some of the supposed curiosities we are shown are a man ...

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Cinderella Goes To A Party
Cinderella Goes To A Party

An irreverent, animated modernization of the Cinderella story....

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Paunch 'n' Judy
Paunch 'n' Judy

A father tries to take picture of his easily distracted daughter, which is made more difficult by an...

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Dive Bomber
Dive Bomber

A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protec...

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Mr. Dynamite
Mr. Dynamite

A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs....

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Count Me Out
Count Me Out

Egghead decides his road to riches is through a boxing correspondence course. When he graduates, he ...

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Swing Hostess
Swing Hostess

An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit....

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Call of the Canyon
Call of the Canyon

A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast....

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Farm Frolics
Farm Frolics

A series of wacky vignettes involving farm animals....

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Arise, My Love
Arise, My Love

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World Wa...

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Trocadero
Trocadero

A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film per...

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Blue Skies
Blue Skies

Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numb...

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Outside of Paradise
Outside of Paradise

Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir ...

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Ding Dong Williams
Ding Dong Williams

Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion p...

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Romance Rides the Range
Romance Rides the Range

Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the...

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Porky's Preview
Porky's Preview

The audience enters Porky's movie theater, with a collection of quick gags: A firefly acting as ushe...

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The Singing Buckaroo
The Singing Buckaroo

Barbara Evans has $25,000 and Gifford is after it. When his henchman fail to get it he refuses to pa...

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Sailors on Leave
Sailors on Leave

If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune....

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Sniffles and the Bookworm
Sniffles and the Bookworm

Literary characters come to life late at night in a bookshop, serenading Sniffles the mouse with swi...

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Forged Passport
Forged Passport

Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-f...

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Curtain Razor
Curtain Razor

Porky, a talent scout for "Goode and Korney Talent Agency," auditions various acts. A final gag has ...

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I'm from Arkansas
I'm from Arkansas

A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets....

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Rookies on Parade
Rookies on Parade

The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy)...

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Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg

Nazi spies mistake Snuffy Smith's moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formu...

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The Night of January 16th
The Night of January 16th

Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-...

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Billboard Frolics
Billboard Frolics

Billboards come to life. Eddie Camphor and his "wioleen" player Rub-Him-Off do a song and dance to "...

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Shantytown
Shantytown

Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"...

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In Old Colorado
In Old Colorado

Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the...

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Blondie Goes to College
Blondie Goes to College

Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Compan...

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Stablemates
Stablemates

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down...

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'Neath Canadian Skies
'Neath Canadian Skies

Canadian Mountie investigates a murder posing as a criminal....

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Two Saplings
Two Saplings

George and Cliff own a Greek restaurant. They go to the bank to apply for a loan and unexpectedly fo...

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New York Town
New York Town

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City s...

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King of the Turf
King of the Turf

Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of on...

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You'll Never Get Rich
You'll Never Get Rich

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfri...

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Behind the Mike
Behind the Mike

Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor....

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Pardon My Stripes
Pardon My Stripes

Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a ...

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Stars on Horseback
Stars on Horseback

A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCre...

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World Premiere
World Premiere

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity f...

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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Gentleman Joe Palooka

In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming t...

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Cinderella Meets Fella
Cinderella Meets Fella

Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets Prince Charming (Egghead)....

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Melody for Three
Melody for Three

Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music t...

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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. ...

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