Judy Canova

Judy Canova

Born: November 20, 1913
Died: August 5, 1983
in Starke, Florida, USA
From Wikipedia

Judy Canova (November 20, 1913 – August 5, 1983), born Juliette Canova, (some sources indicate Julietta Canova), was an American comedienne, actress, singer, and radio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own self-titled network radio program, a popular series broadcast from 1943 to 1955.

When bandleader Rudy Vallée offered the still-teenaged Canova a guest spot on his radio show in 1931, The Fleischmann Hour, the door opened to a career that spanned more than five decades. The popularity of the Canova family led to numerous performances on radio in the 1930s, and they made their Broadway theater debut in the revue Calling All Stars. An offer from Warner Bros. led to several bit parts before she signed with Republic Pictures.

She recorded for the RCA Victor label and appeared in more than two dozen Hollywood films, playing leading roles as well as supporting parts, including Scatterbrain (1940), Joan of Ozark (1942), and Lay That Rifle Down (1955). In 1943, she began her own radio program, The Judy Canova Show, that ran for twelve years—first on CBS and then on NBC. Playing herself as a love-starved Ozark bumpkin dividing her time between home and Southern California.

By the time her radio program ended in 1955, Canova made a smooth transition to television with appearances on The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Steve Allen Show, Matinee Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Make Room For Daddy,and other shows. In 1967, she portrayed Mammy Yokum in an unsold TV pilot adapted from Al Capp's Li'l Abner. She also worked on Broadway and in Vegas nightclubs through the early 1970s, touring with No, No Nanette in 1971. She appeared as a mystery guest on the TV show What's My Line on July 18, 1954.

Canova is honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to the film & television Industry.

Movies for Judy Canova...

Title: The Love Boat
Character: P. J. Muldoon
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Cannonball
Title: Cannonball
Character: Sharma Capri
Released: July 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman, his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.
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Title: Police Woman
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
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Title: Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: TV
Pistols 'n' Petticoats is an American Western sitcom
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Title: Vacation Playhouse
Character: Tillie Meeks
Released: July 22, 1963
Type: TV
The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was successful during its first few seasons due to the fact that the show's concept, airing unsold and unaired television pilots, was a popular concept in the 1960s. But during its last two seasons on the air, the series did find some trouble due to the fact that the series were running out of pilots to air and, in their 4th season, they began airing repeats from the three seasons prior. During its 1966 summer run, the series aired eights new pilots and two repeats and during its last year airing five new pilots and four repeats.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Sheriff's Wife
Released: July 21, 1960
Type: Movie
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
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Hillbilly Jamboree
Title: Hillbilly Jamboree
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A lost film featuring "Grand Ole Opry" style acts.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Country Girl
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: The Rosemary Clooney Show
Character: Self
Released: May 22, 1956
Type: TV
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Hill-billing and Cooing
Title: Hill-billing and Cooing
Character: Possum Pearl (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1956
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's spinach falls, it's up to Olive to save the day.
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Title: Matinee Theater
Released: October 31, 1955
Type: TV
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Helen Parch
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Lay That Rifle Down
Title: Lay That Rifle Down
Character: Judy Canova
Released: July 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.
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Carolina Cannonball
Title: Carolina Cannonball
Character: Judy Canova
Released: January 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down an atomic missile gone astray arrive. When the trolley breaks down, Judy and Grandpa unwittingly install the engine from the nearby crashed missile.
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Untamed Heiress
Title: Untamed Heiress
Character: Judy
Released: March 31, 1954
Type: Movie
Judy is the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew "Cactus" Clayton. Now Clayton hopes to repay the favor, but first he must reclaim his stash of gold from the crooked Williams. Judy helps the old coot by taking on not only Williams, but duplicitous private detectives Walter Martin and Eddie Taylor, not to mention gangsters Spider Mike and Louie.
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The WAC From Walla Walla
Title: The WAC From Walla Walla
Character: Judy Canova
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
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Oklahoma Annie
Title: Oklahoma Annie
Character: Judy Canova
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
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Honeychile
Title: Honeychile
Character: Judy Canova
Released: October 20, 1951
Type: Movie
A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Singin' in the Corn
Title: Singin' in the Corn
Character: Judy McCoy
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost town, she learns that a stipulation in the will is that she has to return the property to the rightful owners, an Indian tribe, before she gets the remaining inheritance
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Hit the Hay
Title: Hit the Hay
Character: Judy Stevens / Helen Rand
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.
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Louisiana Hayride
Title: Louisiana Hayride
Character: Judy Crocker
Released: July 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
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Sleepy Lagoon
Title: Sleepy Lagoon
Character: Judy Joyner
Released: September 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
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Chatterbox
Title: Chatterbox
Character: Judy Boggs
Released: April 27, 1943
Type: Movie
While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood "cowboy" star--whose offscreen image is exactly the opposite of his onscreen one--is saved from disaster by a gregarious local girl. She winds up becoming not only his leading lady in the movie but, because of a set of nutty offscreen circumstances, his fiancé in real life.
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Joan of Ozark
Title: Joan of Ozark
Character: Judy Hull
Released: July 15, 1942
Type: Movie
An uninhibited Arkansas farmgirl discovers a group of Nazis operating in the United States. Director Joseph Santley's broad WWII comedy stars Judy Canova, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Jeffreys and Jerome Cowan.
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True to the Army
Title: True to the Army
Character: Daisy Hawkins
Released: March 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend's Army base.
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Sleepytime Gal
Title: Sleepytime Gal
Character: Bessie Cobb
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and the kitchen's three screwball chefs, Chef Popodopolis, Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium. He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by band-leader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent.. Chick has a recording made of Bessie's voice and substitutes it for that of "Sugar" Caston, who is being sponsored by a big-time gangster and is set up to win. But members of a rival gang, out to get "Sugar", mistake Besiie for her.
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Puddin' Head
Title: Puddin' Head
Character: Judy Goober
Released: June 25, 1941
Type: Movie
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
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Sis Hopkins
Title: Sis Hopkins
Character: Sis Hopkins
Released: April 12, 1941
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
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Scatterbrain
Title: Scatterbrain
Character: Judy Hull
Released: July 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
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Thrill of a Lifetime
Title: Thrill of a Lifetime
Character: Judy Canova
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.
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Artists & Models
Title: Artists & Models
Character: Toots
Released: August 4, 1937
Type: Movie
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Title: Things You Never See on the Screen
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Hillbilly Specialty
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Going Highbrow
Title: Going Highbrow
Character: Annie
Released: July 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
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In Caliente
Title: In Caliente
Character: Specialty Singer
Released: May 25, 1935
Type: Movie
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.