Acting

Sara Berner

Born January 12, 1912 · Albany, New York, USA

Died December 19, 1969 · aged 57

Sara Berner (born Lillian Ann Herdan; January 12, 1912 – December 19, 1969) was an American actress. Known for her expertise in dialect and characterization, she began her career as a performer in vaudeville before becoming a voice actress for radio and animated shorts. She starred in her own radio show on NBC, Sara's Private Caper, and was best known as telephone operator Mabel Flapsaddle on The …

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Rear Window

Rear Window · 1954

MovieThrillerMystery

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh · 1945

MovieMusicComedy

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

Artists and Models

Artists and Models · 1955

Artists and Models

A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.

Lucky Jordan

Lucky Jordan · 1942

MovieComedyCrime

Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

The Big Bad Wolf

The Big Bad Wolf · 1934

The Big Bad Wolf

MovieAnimationComedy

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

Smitten Kitten

Smitten Kitten · 1952

MovieAnimationComedy

Tom's in love again, and Jerry's devil conscience reminds him of times this has happened in the past (which, of course, we see, in the form of clips from earlier shorts), and how that's been nothing but trouble for Jerry.

Baby Puss

Baby Puss · 1943

MovieAnimationComedy

Tom is dressed up and treated like a baby by the little girl of the house.

Red Hot Riding Hood

Red Hot Riding Hood · 1943

Red Hot Riding Hood

MovieAnimationComedy

Tired of always playing the same roles, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandmother and the Wolf demand a new version of the tale. The story then plays out in a more contemporary urban environment, with Little Red Riding Hood working as a pin-up girl in a night club.

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Rear Window

Rear Window · 1954

MovieThrillerMystery

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Woman on Fire Escape

Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh · 1945

MovieMusicComedy

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

Jerry Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

Artists and Models

Artists and Models · 1955

Artists and Models

A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.

Mrs. Stilton (uncredited)

Lucky Jordan

Lucky Jordan · 1942

MovieComedyCrime

Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

Helen

The Big Bad Wolf

The Big Bad Wolf · 1934

The Big Bad Wolf

MovieAnimationComedy

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

Little Red Riding Hood / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)

Smitten Kitten

Smitten Kitten · 1952

MovieAnimationComedy

Tom's in love again, and Jerry's devil conscience reminds him of times this has happened in the past (which, of course, we see, in the form of clips from earlier shorts), and how that's been nothing but trouble for Jerry.

Toots (archive voice) (uncredited)

Baby Puss

Baby Puss · 1943

MovieAnimationComedy

Tom is dressed up and treated like a baby by the little girl of the house.

Jerry (voice) (uncredited)

Red Hot Riding Hood

Red Hot Riding Hood · 1943

Red Hot Riding Hood

MovieAnimationComedy

Tired of always playing the same roles, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandmother and the Wolf demand a new version of the tale. The story then plays out in a more contemporary urban environment, with Little Red Riding Hood working as a pin-up girl in a night club.

Red / Grandma / Short Cigarette Girl (voice) (uncredited)

Road to Morocco

Road to Morocco · 1942

Road to Morocco

MovieComedyMusic

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

Mabel (voice) (uncredited)

Carrie

MovieDramaRomance

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her nagging, dullish married sister. She then runs for help to traveling salesman Charles Drouet. She soon becomes his mistress, but falls in love with married restaurant manager George Hurstwood.

Mrs. Oransky

I Like Mountain Music

I Like Mountain Music · 1933

I Like Mountain Music

MovieAnimationComedy

After hours, individuals on various magazine covers in a drugstore come to life and sing, speak, or perform. Caricature celebrity depictions include George Arliss, Eddie Cantor, Sonja Henie, Benito Mussolini, Ignacy Paderewski, Edward G. Robinson, Will Rogers, and Ed Wynn. A robbery sequence features bad guys breaking into the cash register and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on the case. King Kong also makes an appearance. A Merrie Melody cartoon.

Co-Ed (voice) (uncredited)

The Egg and Jerry

The Egg and Jerry · 1956

The Egg and Jerry

MovieAnimationComedy

A lost baby woodpecker, that believes Jerry is its mother, does everything it can to save the mouse from Tom, who is once again in pursuit. A CinemaScope remake of the 1949 Tom and Jerry cartoon Hatch Up Your Troubles.

Baby Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)

The Mouse Comes to Dinner

The Mouse Comes to Dinner · 1945

The Mouse Comes to Dinner

MovieAnimationComedy

Tom invites Toots to an elegant dinner. However, he's made the mistake of trying to put Jerry to work, as a serving boy, a corkscrew, and other tasks. Jerry puts up with a little of this, but mostly gets revenge on Tom.

Toots (voice) (uncredited)

The Naked Street

The Naked Street · 1955

The Naked Street

MovieThrillerDrama

To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal’s meddling deeds soon backfire.

Millie Swadke

Hatch Up Your Troubles

Hatch Up Your Troubles · 1949

Hatch Up Your Troubles

MovieAnimationComedy

A baby woodpecker mistakes Jerry for his mother. The mouse rejects the newly hatched bird but soon finds himself protecting it against his feline nemesis, Tom.

Baby Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)

Springtime for Thomas

Springtime for Thomas · 1946

Springtime for Thomas

MovieComedyAnimation

It's spring, and Tom is much more interested in the female cat next door than in Jerry.

Toodles Galore (voice) (uncredited)

Porky's Hero Agency

Porky's Hero Agency · 1937

Porky's Hero Agency

MovieAnimationComedy

Porky is reading the Greek myth of the gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bedtime; he dreams of being Porkykarkus, the hero that saves Greece.

Porky's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

Neapolitan Mouse

Neapolitan Mouse · 1954

Neapolitan Mouse

MovieComedyAnimation

Tom chases Jerry through the streets of Naples; they meet a local mouse who recognizes them from their cartoons and shows them around. Meanwhile, some local dogs are shadowing them.

Jerry (voice) (uncredited)

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid · 1942

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid

MovieAnimationComedy

Mama Buzzard wants her children to learn to bring back meat for dinner. One buzzardling is shy and has to be kicked out of the nest. He's told to at least bring back a rabbit.

Mama Buzzard (voice) (uncredited)

Puttin' on the Dog

Puttin' on the Dog · 1944

Puttin' on the Dog

MovieAnimationComedy

Jerry runs into a dog pound (and right on top of a napping Spike) to escape a rather mangy-looking Tom. To avoid being ripped to shreds, Tom borrows the head of a nearby dog statue. This easily fools the dogs, but not Jerry, and Tom keeps losing his newfound head...

Spike's Screams (archive voice) (uncredited)

Fraidy Cat

Fraidy Cat · 1942

MovieAnimationComedy

Tom hears a ghost story on the radio and is spooked by it; Jerry notices this and takes advantage of it, using a variety of tricks to scare Tom.

Operator (voice) (uncredited)

Spring Reunion

Spring Reunion · 1957

A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.

Paula Kratz

The Miracle on 34th Street

The Miracle on 34th Street · 1955

The Miracle on 34th Street

MovieTV MovieFamily

One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real thing.

Woman Shopper

Lonesome Lenny

Lonesome Lenny · 1946

MovieAnimationComedy

Screwy Squirrel becomes the playmate of Lenny, a lonesome, dopey, but strong dog, in this broad parody of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".

Rich Lady (voice) (uncredited)

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour · 1955

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.

December Bride

December Bride · 1954

December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.