Fran Brill is best known for her roles in Sesame Street and as Lily Marvin in which Frank Oz film?
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Fran Brill Frances Joan "Fran" Brill (born September 30, 1946) is a retired American actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on "Sesame Street" as well as playing Sally Hayes in the Hal Ashby film "Being There" (1979) and Lily Marvin in the Frank Oz film "What About Bob?" (1991).
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Frank Oz Frank Oz (born Frank Richard Oznowicz; born May 25, 1944) is an English-born American puppeteer, filmmaker and actor. His career began as a puppeteer, where he performed the Muppet characters of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle in "The Muppet Show", and Cookie Monster, Bert, and Grover in "Sesame Street". He is also known for being the puppeteer and voice of Yoda in the "Star Wars" films.
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Frank and Francesca Frank and Francesca was a 1973 Australian children's television series of six 30 minute black & white episodes produced by Oscar Whitbread for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation based on the book of the same name by David Martin (1915-1997) The series featured the Australian actors Gus Mercurio, Lenice Reed (Francesca), Peter Cummins, Denny Lawrence, Allen Bickford (Frank), and Pauline Charleston; and was directed by Rick Burch and Douglas Sharp.
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Bless the Beasts and Children (film) Bless the Beasts and Children is a 1971 film adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Glendon Swarthout. It was directed by Stanley Kramer and starred Bill Mumy (customarily credited then as “Billy” Mumy; this was one of the earliest known times he was credited as "Bill" Mumy) and Barry Robins.
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Ease on Down the Road "Ease on Down the Road" is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical "The Wiz", an R&B re-interpretation of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". The Charlie Smalls–composed tune is the show's version of both "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" and "We're Off to See the Wizard" from the 1939 version of "The Wizard of Oz". In the song, performed three times during the show, Dorothy and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion dance their way down the Yellow Brick Road and give each other words of encouragement.
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Millie Perkins Millie Perkins (born May 12, 1938) is an American film and television actress best known for her debut film role as Anne Frank in "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959).
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up Three Smart Girls Grow Up is a 1939 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, and Helen Parrish. Durbin and Grey reprise their roles from "Three Smart Girls", and Parrish replaces Barbara Read in the role of the middle sister. Durbin would reprise her role once more in "Hers to Hold".
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Ernest and Bertram Ernest & Bertram is a 2002 tragic comedy short film by Peter Spears spoofing "Sesame Street" characters Ernie and Bert. The film is based on Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour", and depicts Bert and Ernie after they are outed by "Variety" magazine. Although the film was a success at the Sundance Film Festival and the U.S Comedy Arts Festival, it kept from further distribution when Sesame Workshop served the film's producers with a cease and desist order for copyright violation.
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Jerry Maren Gerard Marenghi (born January 24, 1920), known as Jerry Maren, is an American actor and the last surviving Munchkin of the classic 1939 MGM film "The Wizard of Oz", in which he portrayed a member of the Lollipop Guild. He became the last known survivor of the Munchkin cast (there may be some child actors who played Munchkins who also are still alive), following the death of fellow Munchkin Ruth Duccini on January 16, 2014.
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Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (commonly shortened to Follow That Bird) is a 1985 American musical road-comedy film, directed by Ken Kwapis, starring many "Sesame Street" characters (both puppets and live actors). This was the first of two "Sesame Street" feature films, followed in 1999 by "The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland". The film was produced by Sesame Workshop and Warner Bros., and filmed at the Toronto International Studios, and on location in the Greater Toronto Area.
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The Lily of the Tenements The Lily of the Tenements is a 1911 American short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Clara T. Bracy and featuring Blanche Sweet.
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Everybody Sing (film) Everybody Sing is a 1938 American musical comedy film starring Allan Jones, Judy Garland, and Fanny Brice, and featuring Reginald Owen and Billie Burke. The film was a significant step in Garland's career.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986 TV series) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, known in Japan as Oz no Mahōtsukai (オズの魔法使い , "Ozu no Mahōtsukai" ) , is a Japanese anime television series adaptation based on four of the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum. In Japan, the series aired on TV Tokyo from 1986 to 1987. It consists of 52 episodes, which explain other parts of the Oz stories, including the events that happened after Dorothy returned home.
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The Wizard of Oz (1942 musical) The Wizard of Oz is a musical commissioned by the St. Louis Municipal Opera (The Muny) based on the novel, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum and the 1939 film, "The Wizard of Oz" and using the film's songs by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. The book of the musical is by Frank Gabrielson, who would later write an adaptation of "The Marvelous Land of Oz" for Shirley Temple (1960).
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Muppet Babies Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, commonly known by the shortened title Muppet Babies, is an American animated television series that aired from September 15, 1984 to November 2, 1991 on CBS. The show portrays childhood versions of the Muppets living together in a nursery under the care of a human woman called Nanny. Nanny appears in almost every episode, but her face is never visible, only the babies' view of her pink skirt, purple sweater, and distinctive green and white striped socks is shown. The idea of presenting the Muppets as children first appeared in a dream sequence in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" (1984), released two months before "Muppet Babies" debuted, in which Miss Piggy imagined what it would be like if she and Kermit the Frog had grown up together.
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At the End of the Rainbow At the End of the Rainbow (also known as The Princess and the Magic Frog) is a 1965 American children's fantasy adventure film, originally released by . Written by , and produced and directed by , the film stars David Bailey as a boy who finds himself lost in an enchanted forest, encountering an assortment of fanciful characters and navigating a series of fantastical (mis)adventures as he attempts to find his way home. Originally released as a weekend "kiddie matinee" feature, the film was rediscovered and re-released on DVD in 2004 by Something Weird Video, and has subsequently gained something of a cult following for its low budget production values, as well as for the unintentionally camp performances by the adult character actors.
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Border Street Border Street (Polish:Ulica Graniczna) is a 1948 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford and starring Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczyński and Władysław Godik. The film depicts the Nazis' purge of Warsaw Jews by following the fates of five families, representative of the various social, political, and ethnic strata in Warsaw, through the war, and culminates in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Ford did not provide viewers a happy ending because he wanted "the viewer who watches it to realize that the issue of fascism and racial oppression is not over." It won the Gran Prix at the 1948 Venice Film Festival.
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Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939) is the thirty-third in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the nineteenth and last written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill.
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Gossamer Wump Gossamer Wump is a children's record, published in 1949 by Capitol Records, about a boy who learns to play the triangle. The story is narrated by Frank Morgan, Hollywood actor best known for his role as the Wizard in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz", with music by Billy May, and written by Hollywood screenwriters Roger Price and Helen Mack.
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The Love Bug The Love Bug (sometimes referred to as Herbie the Love Bug) is a 1968 American comedy film and the first in a series of films made by Walt Disney Productions that starred an anthropomorphic pearl-white, fabric-sunroofed 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie. It was based on the 1961 book "Car, Boy, Girl" by Gordon Buford.
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Moonlight and Pretzels Moonlight and Pretzels is a 1933 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Karl Freund about a man who puts on a Broadway show. The film was released by Universal Studios, and featured Mary Brian and William Frawley, best known as "Fred Mertz" on "I Love Lucy"; Freund was a cinematographer for "I Love Lucy".
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Funny Girl (film) Funny Girl is a 1968 American biographical romantic musical comedy-drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the stage musical of the same title. It is loosely based on the life and career of Broadway and film star and comedian Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein.