Bert Lahr
Birthday: 1895-08-13
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Bert Lahr (born Irving Lahrheim; August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) was an American actor and comedian. Lahr is remembered today for his roles as the Cowardly Lion and the farmworker Zeke in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but was also well-known for work in burlesque, vaudeville, and on Broadway. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bert Lahr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Wizard of Oz
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and ...
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The Night They Raided Minsky's
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy...
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Just Around the Corner
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little mi...
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Ship Ahoy
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a protot...
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Mr. Broadway
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the p...
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Meet the People
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to th...
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Always Leave Them Laughing
A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success....
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Flying High
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption....
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Sing Your Worries Away
This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operato...
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Henry the Ache
Shemp Howard stars in this old parody of the then-current film "King Henry The Eighth". Also starrin...
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Rose Marie
Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, M...
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A Tale of Old Whiff
A 70mm scope cartoon in which a dog learns to smell in order to become a detective....
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The Second Greatest Sex
In 1880, Osawkie, Kansas is feuding with rival town Mandaroon over which will be county seat, keepin...
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Josette
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the ...
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Love and Hisses
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winch...
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That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...
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Whose Baby Are You?
Druggist George Haggerty's wife is about to give birth. Because all his customers pay on credit, he ...
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The Fantasticks
Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter, Luisa, and Ben’s son, Matt, by pret...
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Mister Universe
A gullible and honest "Mr. Universe" winner, Tommy Tomkins, gets added to the stable of a con-man an...
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The Dark Side of the Rainbow
The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side o...
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Faint Heart
Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He bec...
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The Great Waltz
Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...
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Hizzoner
In this comedy short not-so-smart copper Bert Lahr gets in over his head when he becomes a mock cand...
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No More West
Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians c...
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Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge
A compilation that highlights works from the Three Stooges. It includes the shorts Brideless Groom, ...
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To Oz! The Making of a Classic
A look into how L. Frank Baum's classic novel was transformed into one of the most beloved films of ...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Anything Goes
On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of c...
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s....
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Boy, Oh Boy
Bert Lahr is a butler in the employ of some newly-rich family. His sweetheart kitchen-worker gives a...
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Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Documentary featuring more than one dozen musical outtakes from classic 20th Century-Fox films....
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Oz
A behind-the-scenes look at the 1939 Wizard of Oz film adaptation that tested the limits of its crea...
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