Billy Bletcher — Actor (90)
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Three Chumps Ahead (1934)
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Gus Meins actor: Thelma Todd / Patsy Kelly …
Thelma rushes into the apartment she shares with Patsy, excited because she's fallen in love with Archie, a rich man with yachts and a British accent. Patsy isn't impressed and less so when Archie comes calling. She does her best to sink the romance, making noise while the lovers talk and offering Limburger cheese sandwiches. In desperation, Archie calls his brother Benny, who's a sailor, and asks him to keep Patsy company. After a series of mishaps, they end up at a saloon where Patsy orders everything on the menu. Who's going to have to pay?
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Maid in Hollywood (1934)
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Gus Meins actor: Thelma Todd / Patsy Kelly …
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
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The Tin Man (1935)
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James Parrott actor: Thelma Todd / Patsy Kelly …
Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hidden room. The girls are soon in a panic. Patsy gets into an argument with the robot and loses the match of wits. Blackie Burke, an escaped convict, is using the house as a hideout, and this adds to the problems the girls already have.
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Ain't We Got Fun (1937)
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Tex Avery actor: Mel Blanc / Billy Bletcher
other title: Não Temos Diversão / Une soirée agitée
The cat's asleep, so the mice are on the loose, for a while at least, in the pantry. When he wakes up, they pile the food on him and get him thrown out, and then they *really* have the run of the house.
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The Bee-Deviled Bruin (1949)
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Chuck Jones actor: Mel Blanc / Bea Benaderet …
other title: L'Ours brun piqué au vif
It's breakfast time, and Pa finds the honeypot empty. Literally risking life and limb, he has Junyer help him raid a nearby beehive. In the end, he finds he should have listened to Ma in the first place, rather than telling her to "Shaddap!"
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Tubby the Tuba (1947)
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George Pal actor: Victor Jory / Billy Bletcher
other title: 大號杜比的故事
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), Tubby the Tuba is disappointed that his sound limits what he's permitted to do in an orchestra of self-playing instruments that, unlike him, get to play pretty melodies. A chance meeting with a bullfrog changes everything.
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Symphony Hour (1942)
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Riley Thomson actor: Walt Disney / Billy Bletcher …
other title: ミッキーのオーケストラ / Symphonie-Stunde …
Mickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an elevator, so they sound like toys. The sponsor hates it, but the audience loves it anyway.
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Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937)
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Tex Avery actor: Mel Blanc / Tex Avery …
other title: Le Bungalow de l'oncle Tom / 汤姆叔叔的平房 …
Warner Bros. cartoon parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.
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I Wanna Be a Sailor (1937)
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Tex Avery actor: Elvia Allman / Mel Blanc …
other title: Ich will ein Seemann sein / Un marin d'eau douce
Momma parrot is teaching her young-uns to say "Polly want a cracker" but little Peter doesn't want a cracker, he wants to be a sailor like dad. Mom tells him what a no-account his dad really was, setting sail for Hawaii ("no, Maw, it was Catalina") right after the kids were born. Peter is unswayed, and takes off. He turns a barrel into a boat, and crews it with an annoyingly talkative duckling, then sets sail on a lake. They get caught in a thunderstorm (the duck loves it). Peter calls for help and momma comes running, but the duck has already saved him. But he still wants to be a sailor.
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Egghead Rides Again (1937)
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Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Mel Blanc …
other title: Tête d'œuf remonte à la surface / Egghead Cabalga de nuevo …
City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly what he dreamed of.
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Milk and Money (1936)
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Tex Avery actor: Billy Bletcher / Joe Dougherty …
Porky's father is going to lose his farm. Porky goes to town with his horse and works a milk route, with a warning that if he breaks a bottle he's fired. As he's delivering, cats follow along behind draining the bottles. Meanwhile, Hank Horsefly follows them into town. He stings Dobbin, who crashes and breaks many bottles. They happen upon a horse race and accidentally enter; the horse is merely plodding along until it gets stung again.
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Me and My Pal (1933)
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Charley Rogers / Lloyd French actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof als Mitgiftjäger / Laurel et Hardy - Les deux flemmards …
On the morning of his wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter, Ollie receives a jigsaw puzzle from Stan as a wedding gift. The boys soon become absorbed in the puzzle. A taxi driver, butler, policeman and messenger boy join in as well.