Vivien Oakland
Birthday: 1895-05-19
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia Vivien Oakland (born Vivian Anderson, May 20, 1895 – August 1, 1958), was an American actress best known for her work in comedies in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably with the Hal Roach Studios. Oakland appeared in 142 films between 1915 and 1951. She supported Laurel and Hardy on several occasions, and sometimes played the wife of Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol in their series of short films. She played mostly bit roles in feature films in the 1940s before making her last film (an Errol comedy) in 1951.
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen he...
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Way Out West
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector....
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Tony Runs Wild
Tom Grant saves Grace Percival from being tromped by a herd of stampeding horses,led by Tony, and th...
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Don Key (Son of Burro)
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they c...
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Bunco Squad
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, ...
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Madonna of the Streets
Rev. John Morton, who is determined to follow as closely as possible the teachings of Jesus, inherit...
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Along Came Auntie
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the wo...
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The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by co...
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We Faw Down
Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved w...
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Knee Action
Andy takes his newest invention, a knee-action washing machine, before a group of potential investor...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George'...
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A Tragedy at Midnight
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find ...
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Mighty Like a Moose
After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramari...
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The Tenderfoot
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns ...
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Wife Tamers
Mr. Barry has a huge argument with his wife, and to make her jealous, he asks his valet to set him u...
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Money Means Nothing
At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy han...
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Utah
A singing ranch foreman (Roy Rogers) and his friend (George "Gabby" Hayes) urge a chorus-girl heires...
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Redheads Preferred
In order to land an important client, Morgan is obliged to escort a beautiful redhead to a costume b...
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Keystone Hotel
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the f...
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Who's Looney Now
Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains t...
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Back Pay
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ...
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Tell 'Em Nothing
Charlie is the great divorce attorney, in demand by all women wishing to shed their husbands. While ...
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Lady Luck
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposa...
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Say It with Babies
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provi...
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Tramp Trouble
Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments hi...
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Amateur Crook
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of cro...
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In the Dog House
Andy remarries, but his new wife has no use for either his son or his dog....
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Gold Dust Gertie
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony....
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Beaux and Errors
To make Edgar do something about his physical condition, his wife has invited her old boy friend, in...
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His Pest Friend
Leon's wife wants to surprise him by buying the cabin where they had spent their honeymoon. But when...
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Atlantic Adventure
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is wo...
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Dumb's the Word
Edgar finds some gold in his attic and the guy working on his roof tells him he could go to jail for...
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The Fuller Gush Man
Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on...
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Sappy Pappy
Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers....
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A Lady Surrenders
A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean ...
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The Matrimonial Bed
Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia...
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The Defense Rests
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways....
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The Age for Love
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and...
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Rebellious Daughters
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up ...
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Slander House
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the ...
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The Florodora Girl
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is ...
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Long Pants
Glenn's first attempt at wearing long trousers and being a man about town goes swimmingly as he quic...
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Baby Daze
Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes...
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Rendezvous at Midnight
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especiall...
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Double Danger
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". ...
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Scram!
Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who ...
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The Girl from Mexico
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, a...
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life....
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One Live Ghost
Henry Morton just wants to go fishing. Little things thwart him: Maxine the maid makes noise, Sonny,...
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Two-Time Mama
The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couple...
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Star of Midnight
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a tra...
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Mutiny in the County
53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy....
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The Girl Who Dared
A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears onc...
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Oh, Sailor, Behave!
Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Be...
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Sister Kenny
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences gr...
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The Man in the Trunk
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer....
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in p...
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Big Hearted
Elmer and Fannie Blue (Ray Hughes and Dorothy Gulliver) are happy that their neighbors in the duplex...
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Love 'Em and Weep
Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a...
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That's My Wife
Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be h...
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Mile a Minute Love
William Bakewell stars as an inventor who develops a high-powered boat engine. Bakewell, of course, ...
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Mama Behave
A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to imper...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....
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The Rainbow Trail
John Shefford is looking for his uncle Venters who years ago found a hidden valley and lived there w...
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A Chump at Oxford
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disast...
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Drafted in the Depot
Edgar Kennedy's hunting trip with his single buddies is kiboshed when his wife, Vivien, has made oth...
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An Apple in His Eye
Edgar tries his hand at making pies for Vivien's charity bazaar with predictable results....
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Secrets of the French Police
When a flower girl is kidnapped by a deranged White Russian, to impersonate the missing Princess Ana...
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The Teaser
Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a vill...
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USS VD: Ship of Shame
This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the resul...
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The Ring and the Belle
Andy becomes the manager of a prizefighter. The problem is, the figher has just skipped town....
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Satires
Mr. Young introduces the sketch in an appropriately melodramatic fashion, wearing an opera cape and ...
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Pop Always Pays
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then franti...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick'
Bobby Jones shows Huntley Gordon and Vivian Oakland some tips on the use of the niblick (9 iron)...
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'Taint Legal
Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married...
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Sunk by the Census
Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (...
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Bad Housekeeping
Edgar Kennedy's wife decides he should do the housework for the day, the same day the piano tuner Fr...
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A Clean Sweep
Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living...
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Berth Quakes
Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories see...
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A Trailer Tragedy
Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before t...
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Sauce for the Gander
Working stiff Tom Tupper is stopped by a 'man on the spot' reporter during his daily commute. Asked ...
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Crime Ring
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buyi...
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Laugh Your Blues Away
Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her s...
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The Secret Fury
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married...
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Maid to Order
Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry...
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Only Yesterday
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a...
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Kennedy the Great
A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trun...
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The Man Who Walked Alone
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speed...
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Magnificent Doll
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending B...
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Borrowed Blonde
Leon's boss and his wife aren't getting along together, so Leon asks them to visit his home and obse...
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Many a Slip
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant....
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Their Wives' Vacation
This Educational Mermaid Talking Comedy features a wrestling/trombone-playing Pert Kelton....
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The Locket
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters....
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Galloping Ghosts
A millionaire acquires a large diamond, said to be cursed. Despite the best efforts of his dutiful b...
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Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman
Artist Standish using his wife Mary as his model finishes a painting of the Madonna. When the Connoi...
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I Believed in You
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of...
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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their...
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Neighbors' Wives
A young woman tries to break up a budding romance between her sweet but naive young sister-in-law an...
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