Florence Gill

The Reluctant Dragon · 1941

The Reluctant Dragon

★ 6.61941

MovieAnimationFamily

Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.

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Clara Cluck (voice) / Florence Gill

The Wise Little Hen · 1934

The Wise Little Hen

★ 6.61934

MovieAnimationComedy

Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig and Donald Duck, but they refuse stating they each have a "tummy ache." When it comes time to harvest the corn, Peter Pig and Donald still refuse to help the Hen, so she and her chicks do the harvest by themselves. Finally, the hen cooks the corn and offers some to Donald and Peter Pig, but when they look more carefully they discover a surprise.

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Wise Little Hen (voice) (uncredited)

Mickey's Birthday Party · 1942

Mickey's Birthday Party

★ 6.21942

MovieAnimationComedy

The gang throws Mickey a surprise birthday party; his present is an electric organ, which Minnie plays while Mickey does a jazzy dance. Goofy bakes the cake, but keeps having trouble with it falling. The gang does a conga line to a Latin tune.

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Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6 · 2004

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6

★ 8.82004

MovieAnimationFamily

Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a docile dragon the art of being a force to be reckoned with. In 'Mickey and the Beanstalk' (1947), Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck confront the fearsome Willie the Giant to try to retrieve the magical singing harp to Happy Valley.

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Florence Gill / Clara Cluck (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

I Married a Witch · 1942

I Married a Witch

★ 6.91942

MovieRomanceFantasy

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.

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Woman Playing Chess (uncredited)

Funny Little Bunnies · 1934

Funny Little Bunnies

★ 7.01934

MovieAnimation

We see bunny rabbits preparing for Easter, by making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets.

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Hens (voice) (uncredited)

The Fox Hunt · 1938

The Fox Hunt

★ 6.11938

MovieAnimationFamily

Donald controls the hounds , and Goofy is riding on Horace Horsecollar, as the fox outwits both of them.

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Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)

The Eyes Have It · 1945

The Eyes Have It

★ 5.81945

MovieAnimationComedy

Donald receives a mail order hypnosis kit complete with hypnotic goggles and decides to test it on Pluto. Using the goggles, he convinces Pluto he is a mouse, a turtle, and a chicken. Each "transformation" Pluto undergoes Donald finds extremely funny so he keeps at it until he notices chicken Pluto getting into a fight with a rooster. Donald helps Pluto win the fight by making him think he's a lion but, unfortunately, the goggles break and Donald is chased about by Pluto until he regains his senses after a fall.

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Hen (voice) (uncredited)

Self Control · 1938

Self Control

★ 5.81938

MovieAnimationComedy

Donald hears a radio philosopher advise to laugh and count ten when he gets angry. He tries it successfully, then settles into his hammock for a nap. Between a caterpillar and the hen chasing it, he's soon tangled up and counting ten again. He also shrugs off a bird using his lemonade as a birdbath, but when a woodpecker attacks his apple tree, burying Donald in apples, he snaps.

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Hen (voice) (uncredited)

Birds of a Feather · 1931

Birds of a Feather

★ 5.61931

MovieAnimation

Swans, peacocks, ducks, and more birds dance.

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Mother Hen (voice) (uncredited)

Goofy's Glider · 1940

Goofy's Glider

★ 6.71940

MovieFamilyAnimation

Yet another sport is made 'easy' for us by Goofy's demonstration how- never, ever, to try anything for real, least of all with a glider-flying machine he launches in ways that would kill anything but a cartoon character, such as a giant catapult and even a canon. Meanwhile Goofy proves totally incapable to control any of its movements in the air, let alone the 'landing' which is too messy even for a bombshell.

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Chickens

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air · 1937

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

★ 5.41937

MovieComedyMusic

A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.

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Miss Carrie Bowers (uncredited)

Mickey's Grand Opera · 1936

Mickey's Grand Opera

★ 6.51936

MovieAnimationMusic

Mickey is preparing to conduct an opera when he chases Pluto away. Pluto crashes into a magician's props backstage and spars with the hat, its rabbits, and its doves. The opera begins: Clarabelle plays flute, Clara and Donald are the leads in Romeo and Juliet. Pluto follows the magic hat onstage, to Mickey's growing annoyance. The hat falls into a tuba, and soon the animals are filling the stage.

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Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)

Orphans' Benefit · 1941

Orphans' Benefit

★ 6.21941

MovieAnimationFamily

Mickey and friends put on a revue for the orphans. Donald recites nursery rhymes, but the orphans torment him. Horace, Goofy, and Clarabelle do a dance number. Donald tries again. Clara clucks a song while Mickey plays piano (with support from an unseen orchestra). Donald returns, and the orphans finally send a parade of bricks and eggs on balloons over him and use slingshots to drop them on his head.

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Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)

Chicken Little · 1943

Chicken Little

★ 7.11943

MovieAnimationFamily

It's a peaceful day at the local poultry farm until Foxy Loxy happens along intent on a chicken dinner. He takes the advice of a book on psychology by striking "the least intelligent" first and convinces dim witted Chicken Little the sky is falling. Chicken Little spreads the word but when head man Cocky Locky proves the story to be false, Foxy Loxy spreads rumors that Cocky Locky isn't the smart chicken he appears to be, which leads to the ultimate undoing of the chickens at the hands of Foxy Loxy.

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Hens (voice) (uncredited)

Chicken in the Rough · 1951

Chicken in the Rough

★ 6.41951

MovieAnimationFamily

Chip 'n' Dale wander into a farmyard to collect acorns. Dale mistakes an egg for a nut, but when he tries to demonstrate to a newly hatched chick how to get back into the egg, a rooster mistakes him for one of his chicks.

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Hen (voice) (uncredited)

Cock o' the Walk · 1935

Cock o' the Walk

★ 6.01935

MovieAnimation

The title character comes to town, complete with portable boxing ring. He grabs a local chicken and dances with her, inspiring several other barnyard animals to dance. But her rooster takes offense, and enters the ring to do battle.

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Hens (voice) (uncredited)

Obliging Young Lady · 1942

Obliging Young Lady

★ 6.01942

MovieComedyRomance

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

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Miss Hollyrod

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5 · 2004

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5

★ 7.62004

MovieAnimationFamily

Six more animated stories from the Disney studios. 'Three Blind Mousketeers' follows the misadventures of the outrageous trio. In 'Three Little Pigs', the Big Bad Wolf is doing his best to cunningly snare the guileless little pigs, while in 'Three Little Wolves' he goes one step further and decides to disguise and train his own offspring to lure them into his fold. 'Funny Little Bunnies' explores the mystery of the Easter Bunny. 'Lambert the Sheepish Lion' is a lovable, shy lion who plucks up the courage to protect his adopted family of ewes and rams. 'Ferdinand the Bull' gets in a scrape at a Madrid bullring when he gets stung by a bee and the crowd mistake him for a fighting bull.

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Hens (voice) (archive sound)

She Had to Eat · 1937

She Had to Eat

★ 5.61937

MovieAdventureComedy

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.

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Singer (uncredited)

Orphan's Benefit · 1934

Orphan's Benefit

★ 6.21934

MovieAnimation

Donald and Mickey put on a charity show, for some orphans.

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Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)

Golden Eggs · 1941

Golden Eggs

★ 6.21941

MovieAnimationComedy

Donald reads in his newspaper that eggs are really going up in value and the price is skyrocketing. Donald realizes that if he had some eggs, he would be quite the wealthy duck so he breaks into a nearby hen-house and collects as many eggs as possible putting them all in a huge basket. Unfortunately, a rooster standing guard makes his presence known and ejects Donald. The inventive duck is able to get back in disguised as a female chicken who the rooster falls for and dances with. Unfortunately, with the rubber glove comb constantly coming loose and a caterpillar falling down the back of his suit, he is ever at the risk of being discovered.

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The Hens / Rooster (voice) (uncredited)

Symphony Hour · 1942

Symphony Hour

★ 6.91942

MovieAnimationComedy

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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Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)

Here Comes the Band · 1935

Here Comes the Band

★ 7.01935

MovieRomanceComedy

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."

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Mrs. Ella Sacks (uncredited)

Mickey Mouse Cartoons · 1928

Mickey Mouse Cartoons

1928

SeriesAnimation

Mickey Mouse (originally known as Mickey Mouse Cartoons) is a series of American animated comedy short films produced by Walt Disney Productions. The series started in 1928 with Steamboat Willie.

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Hen (Voice)