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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... more

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 Jack Benny Program.

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Rear Window
(1954)
Mystery, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast:
James Stewart, James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
8.5
98%
100
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Anchors Aweigh
(1945)
Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance, War
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
Runtime:
143 min
Director:
George Sidney
Cast:
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell
7.1
57%
60
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Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
(1942)
Animation, Comedy, Family
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.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Bob Clampett
Cast:
Sara Berner, Kent Rogers, Mel Blanc, Arnold Stang, Arthur Q. Bryan
7.6
N/A
N/A
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The Dover Boys at Pimento University
(1942)
Animation, Comedy
Three fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, Dan Backslide, in this spoof of the Rover Boys.
Runtime:
9 min
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Book Revue
(1946)
Animation, Comedy, Family
A secluded bookstore comes to life in madcap, pop culture reference-heavy fashion.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Bob Clampett
Cast:
Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
7.3
N/A
N/A
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The Mouse Comes to Dinner
(1945)
Animation, Comedy
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, mostly involving the tip of Tom's tail, which ends up in a sandwich, inside a dessert, and in a candle-holder. Meanwh...
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Cast:
William Hanna, Lillian Randolph, Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher
7.8
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N/A
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The Zoot Cat
(1944)
Animation, Comedy, Family
Tom's advances on a young jive-talking girl cat get nowhere; nowhere, that is, until Tom gets a zoot suit. Armed with his miles of fabric and a new cool lingo, Tom still has to deal with the tricks of his nemesis, Jerry.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Cast:
William Hanna, Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher
7.4
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Woody Woodpecker
(1941)
Animation
Woody Woodpecker spends his day singing loudly and pecking holes in trees. He infuriates the other woodland creatures - when he isn't baffling them with his bizarre behavior. Woody overhears a squirrel and a group of birds gossiping about him. Even though he just sang a song proclaiming his craziness, he denies their whispered accusati...
Runtime:
7 min
7.7
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N/A
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Swing Shift Cinderella
(1945)
Animation, Comedy
The big bad wolf starts out chasing Little Red Riding Hood but switches to Cinderella after seeing the film's title, and ends up being chased in turn by her fairy godmother.
Runtime:
8 min
Director:
Tex Avery
Cast:
Sara Berner, Frank Graham, Imogene Lynn
7.6
N/A
N/A
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Hollywood Steps Out
(1941)
Animation, Comedy, Family
A tour of Ciro's Nightclub packed with caricatures of many top stars.
Runtime:
8 min
Director:
Tex Avery
Cast:
Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Kent Rogers, Dave Barry
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Pigs in a Polka
(1943)
Animation, Comedy, Family, Music
Dressed in a tuxedo, the Big Bad Wolf announces the evening's program: the tale of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs, set to the music of Johannes Brahms's Hungarian Dances. Queue the fairy tale: we watch each pig build his house, the first two pigs dance and play, the wolf arrives and, wearing a gypsy woman's disguise, almost...
Runtime:
8 min
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Plane Daffy
(1944)
Animation, Comedy, Family
Daffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Frank Tashlin
Cast:
Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Robert C. Bruce
7.8
N/A
N/A
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Horton Hatches the Egg
(1942)
Animation, Comedy
Horton the elephant agrees to watch over lazy Maisie bird's egg while she vacations. Much later, after...
Runtime:
10 min
Director:
Bob Clampett
Cast:
Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Frank Graham, Kent Rogers
7.6
N/A
N/A
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Daffy Duck in Hollywood
(1938)
Animation
Daffy causes trouble on a Hollywood set.
Runtime:
7 min
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Bacall to Arms
(1946)
Animation
Movie patrons watch and interact with a variety of short subjects and a spoof of the film "To Have and Have Not."
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Bob Clampett
Cast:
Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Sara Berner, Robert C. Bruce
6.7
N/A
N/A
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The Naked Street
(1955)
Drama, Thriller
A reporter follows the story of a gangster (Anthony Quinn), his sister (Anne Bancroft) and her small-time hoodlum husband (Farley Granger).
Runtime:
84 min
6.5
N/A
N/A
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The Bashful Buzzard
(1945)
Animation, Comedy, Family
Beaky Buzzard, the shyest, dopiest young buzzard in his family, is sent out to catch something to eat.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Bob Clampett
Cast:
Kent Rogers, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
7.5
N/A
N/A
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An Itch in Time
(1943)
Animation, Comedy, Family
Elmer threatens to give his dog a bath if he doesn't stop scratching, but the poor pooch is the victim of a hungry flea whose tools of the trade include pickaxes and dynamite.
Runtime:
8 min
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
(1938)
Animation, Comedy
Various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed by Hollywood stars for example, Old King Cole's fiddlers three are the Marx Brothers, and Humpty Dumpty is W.C. Fields, who falls while tormenting Charlie McCarthy; Simple Simon and the Pieman are Laurel and Hardy.
Runtime:
8 min
Director:
Wilfred Jackson
Cast:
Clarence Nash, The Blackbirds, Dave Weber, Thelma Boardman, Ann Lee
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Lonesome Lenny
(1946)
Animation, Comedy
Screwy Squirrel becomes the playmate of a lonesome, dopey, but strong, dog, Lenny, in a broad parody of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".
Runtime:
8 min
7.5
N/A
N/A
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The Daffy Doc
(1938)
Animation
After being thrown out as Doctor Quack's assistant, Daffy Duck makes Porky Pig his own -- unwilling -- patient.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Bob Clampett
Cast:
Mel Blanc, Sara Berner
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Pantry Panic
(1941)
Animation
Woody's friends warn him that the groundhog has predicted a blizzard. Unconcerned, Woody decides not to go South with his pals. Soon enough, the blizzard sweeps in and destroys the loony woodpecker's stash of food. Facing starvation, a glimmer of hope arrives in the form of a cat. The cat is also starving and it turns into a match of b...
Runtime:
7 min
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Bear's Tale
(1940)
Animation, Comedy, Family
The Three Bears meets Little Red Riding Hood, told in the style of Tex Avery.
Runtime:
9 min
Director:
Tex Avery
Cast:
Tex Avery, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
7.0
N/A
N/A
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The Trial of Mr. Wolf
(1941)
Animation, Comedy
The Big Bad Wolf, villain of children's stories for years, is on trial for crimes committed against Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother. When given a chance to speak in his defense, Mr. Wolf explains the supposed real story behind the fairy tale, in which he is the victim and Red and her grandma are the ones to blame. Will the j...
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Friz Freleng
Cast:
Mel Blanc, Sara Berner
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Animation, Comedy
A live action piano player tells the story of a clothes-devouring moth who is on his way to marry a honey bee but gets caught by a black widow spider looking for a man of her own.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Bob Clampett
Cast:
Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Leo White
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Patient Porky
(1940)
Animation, Comedy
Porky checks into a hospital with a tummyache; he has the bad luck to encounter a patient posing a "Dr. Chilled-Air" who is a bit too eager to operate.
Runtime:
6 min
Director:
Bob Clampett
Cast:
Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Booby Hatched
(1944)
Animation
A duck struggles mightily, and finally hatches her eggs in the bitter cold, after candling them and seeing the chicks skiing, skating, and otherwise enjoying winter inside the shells. All but one, that is: poor little Robespierre. She doesn't notice until after the rest of the brood has gone swimming and Robespierre has sprouted legs a...
Runtime:
7 min
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Farm Frolics
(1941)
Animation, Comedy
A series of wacky vignettes involving farm animals.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Bob Clampett
Cast:
Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Cliff Nazarro, Kent Rogers
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Knock Knock
(1940)
Animation
Andy Panda asks Pop if you can really catch a bird by putting salt on its tail. Pop tells Andy not to bother him only to hear a knocking at the door. The "knocking" is really coming from a woodpecker pecking against their roof. Pop sets out to trap the bird but is no match for its screwiness. He uses a wind-up explosive decoy that the ...
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Walter Lantz, Alex Lovy
Cast:
Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
7.0
N/A
N/A
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A Gander at Mother Goose
(1940)
Animation, Comedy
A series of gags based on Mother Goose stories.
Runtime:
6 min
Director:
Tex Avery
Cast:
Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Bernice Hansen
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Censored
(1944)
Animation, Comedy, War
Private Snafu wants to tell his sweetheart, Sally Lou, that he thinks his unit will be sent to the South Pacific. But every effort he makes to get his letter through uncensored is thwarted by a resourceful (and unseen) censor with an array of contraptions and booby traps. Not even Snafu's carrier pigeon can avoid the censor -- not when...
Runtime:
3 min
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Little Boy Blue
(1936)
Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
The Big Bad Wolf stalks Little Bo Peep and steals one of her sheep. She enlists Little Boy Blue and a dancing scarecrow to assist her and her mischievous black sheep in rescuing it. Singing, dancing, hilarity and impalement ensue.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Ub Iwerks
Cast:
Billy Bletcher, Billy Bletcher, Sara Berner, Jack Mercer
5.6
N/A
N/A
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Spring Reunion
(1957)
Drama
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Runtime:
79 min
Director:
Robert Pirosh
Cast:
Dana Andrews, Betty Hutton, Jean Hagen, Robert F. Simon, Laura La Plante
5.8
N/A
N/A
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The Story of Molly X
(1949)
Crime, Drama
Molly's husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he's shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Disguised as a noble woman, she and her gang rob security transports. But when one day Rob confesses to her that he killed Rick out of jealousy, she shoots him down immediately. In ...
Runtime:
79 min
Director:
Crane Wilbur
Cast:
June Havoc, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Connie Gilchrist, Cathy Lewis
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Wacky Blackout
(1942)
Animation, Comedy
We tour a farm and see how the various animals are preparing for the war, in a series of blackout skits.
Runtime:
8 min
Director:
Bob Clampett
Cast:
Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Kent Rogers
5.9
N/A
N/A
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Backlash
(1947)
Crime, Mystery
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads t...
Runtime:
66 min
Director:
Eugene Forde
Cast:
Jean Rogers, Richard Travis, Larry J. Blake, John Eldredge, Leonard Strong
6.2
N/A
N/A
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A Kiddies Kitty
(1955)
Animation
To escape a bulldog, Sylvester Cat allows himself to be adopted by a little girl. The little girl turns out to be rougher than the bulldog, though in her case it is entirely out of love.
Runtime:
6 min
Director:
Friz Freleng
Cast:
Lucille Bliss, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
6.7
N/A
N/A
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I Like Mountain Music
(1933)
Animation, Comedy, Family, Music
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 reg...
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Rudolf Ising
Cast:
Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig, Jack Mercer
5.6
N/A
N/A
It's Murder She Says...
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It's Murder She Says...
(1945)
Animation
A haggard mosquito complains how tough life is with the military taking the proper precautions against malaria infection.
Runtime:
3 min
5.4
N/A
N/A
Hysterical High Spots in American History
(1941)
Animation
A comical twist on the history of America.
Runtime:
7 min
5.9
N/A
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