Carol BurnettFilmography

Horton Hears a Who

Actors: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen

Synopsis: When a kindly elephant hears a faint cry of help from a floating speck of dust, his attempts to protect the tiny particle cause his neighbors to question his sanity in this animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' classic 1954 children's book of the same name. Produced by Ice Age makers Blue Sky Read More

Rona Barrett's Hollywood: Nothing But the Truth

Actors: Rona Barrett

Synopsis: Frequent Good Morning America, The Today Show, and Entertainment Tonight contributor Rona Barrett serves as the subject of this documentary profile of the celebrity journalist whose innovative "coffee cliché" style has served as the blueprint for what's now considered mainstream celebrity Read More

Once Upon a Mattress

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Carol Burnett, Tracey Ullman, Denis O'Hare, Zooey Deschanel

Synopsis: A love-sick nobleman seeking to marry his sweetheart does his best to find his ruling prince a suitable bride so that he himself may wed in this screen adaptation of the popular Broadway musical The Princess and the Pea. No one in Prince Dauntless (Denis O'Hare)'s kingdom is permitted to marry Read More

The Carol Burnett Show: Let's Bump Up the Lights!

Synopsis: The Carol Burnett Show was one of the few television variety shows where the star made a point of talking with her studio audience every week, opening the broadcast with a brief question-and-answer session, and the warm relationship between Burnett and her audience was a large part of what made Read More

Broadway: The Golden Age

Actors: Edie Adams, Bea Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is both a celebration of current Broadway stars and a tribute to Broadway legends past. Through a plethora of interviews and vast amounts of archival footage, McKay presents a Read More

Great Women of Television and Comedy

Synopsis: Organized by New York's Museum of Television and Radio, this impressively assembled tribute to the funny women boasts a stellar all-female cast, drawn from half a century's worth of video entertainment. Hosted by Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), the special uses rare film clips and interviews to pay Read More

Desilu

Synopsis: This two-hour documentary chronicles the spectacular rise and comparatively quiet fall of one of Hollywood biggest TV production factories. Desilu was formed in 1951 by Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz as the production company for their popular weekly sitcom I Love Lucy. The success of Read More

Television: The First 50 Years

Sondheim: Putting It Together - A Musical Review

Synopsis: Legendary performer Carol Burnett returns to the Broadway stage for the first time on over three decades to celebrate the music of composer Stephen Soundheim in an all-star tribute co-starring Bronson Pinchot and George Hearn. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Carol Burnett Show: Show Stoppers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman

Synopsis: The Carol Burnett Show was one of the most popular and best loved comedy-variety series to grave American television in the 1970's. In 2001, Carol Burnett and fellow cast members Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, and Vicki Lawrence reunited for this comedy special, in which they take a look back at some Read More

Trumpet of the Swan

Actors: Jason Alexander, Mary Steenburgen, Reese Witherspoon, Seth Green, Carol Burnett

Synopsis: E.B. White's children's story of a swan searching for his voice comes to life in this animated adventure. When young Louie the Swan is hatched, it's soon discovered that he isn't able to make a sound, which is a matter of no small annoyance to his boastful father (voice of Jason Alexander) and Read More

Get Bruce!

Actors: Bruce Vilanch, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: This is a documentary portrait of a Hollywood comedy writer cited by many of entertainment's biggest stars as their comedic "secret weapon." Bruce Vilanch is a rotund, hirsute New Jersey native who left a job at a Chicago newspaper in the 1970s to become a gag writer for singer and actress Bette Midler Read More

Mad About You: Paved with Good Intentions

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) vow to assure their respective families that, with all their faults, they still love them. Things don't go quite as planned when Paul accidentally runs over his mother-in-law, Theresa (Carol Burnett), with his car. On the other hand, Theresa's hospital Read More

Mad About You: The Final Frontier, Part 2

Actors: Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris

Synopsis: This final episode of Mad About You is set approximately 22 years in the future. Mabel Buchman (Janeane Garafolo), grown-up daughter of Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt), follows in her dad's footsteps by producing a documentary film about her family. Several former series regulars Read More

CBS: The First 50 Years

Actors: Adam Arkin, Ed Bradley, Carol Burnett, David Copperfield, Roma Downey

Synopsis: This two-hour TV entertainment special takes a surface skim (95 minutes minus commercials and promos) over the history of CBS, quickly skipping past decades of CBS radio to concentrate on CBS television from the late '40s to the present. It features more than a dozen hosts (Adam Arkin, Ed Bradley, Carol Burnett Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Flip

Synopsis: Desperate for an A-list guest as his final show draws ever closer, Larry (Garry Shandling) determines that he must overcome his discomfort with affectionate old friend David Duchovny in order to secure an appearance from the X-Files star. Meanwhile, Artie (Rip Torn) struggles to keep the emotional Read More

Mad About You: Breastfeeding

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: The time has come for baby Mabel to choose between breastfeeding or bottle-feeding. Her choice does not please Paul (Paul Reiser) or Jamie (Helen Hunt), by try to reason with an infant. Meanwhile, Jamie's flamboyant mother, Theresa (Carol Burnett), begins dating a much-younger member of the Lord Read More

Love After Death

Actors: Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, John Stamos, Teri Polo

Synopsis: Adapted by Richard Vetere from his own play, the made-for-TV The Marriage Fool served to reunite Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett, the stars of the 1972 theatrical feature Pete 'n Tillie. Matthau is cast as widowed septuagenarian Frank Walsh, whose sedentary lifestyle is shifted into third gear by Read More

Mad About You: The Birth, Part 1

Synopsis: After innumerable false alarms, it looks as though Jamie (Helen Hunt) is going to have her baby. This expected blessed event coincides with the unexpected film-festival triumph of Jamie's husband, Paul (Paul Reiser) -- who'da thunk that "Buchman" would win an award over a Michael Moore project? Read More

Mad About You: The Feud

Synopsis: Paul's mother, Sylvia (Cynthia Harris), and Jamie's mother, Theresa (Carol Burnett), both purchase cribs for the Buchman's new baby. This sparks a family feud that makes the Hatfields and McCoys seem like pikers. Meanwhile, Paul (Paul Reiser) wins a poker game from handyman Marvin (Jeff Garlin) Read More

Moon Over Broadway

Synopsis: Directed and edited by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker (one of the key figures of the cinema verite style of documentary-making) and filmed in 1995, this documentary offers an intimate look at the staging of a major Broadway show from casting through endless rehearsals to the almost Read More

Mad About You: Astrology

Synopsis: Melanie Mayron guest stars as Doris, the astrologer sister of the Buchmans' dog-walker, Nat (Hank Azaria). When Doris offers to draw up charts for the Buchman family, Jamie (Helen Hunt) is reluctant to cooperate -- and not without good reason. Originally slated to air in the U.S. on February 4 Read More

Mad About You: The Birth, Part 2

Synopsis: After innumerable false alarms, it looks as though Jamie (Helen Hunt) is going to have her baby. But before this blessed event can take place, Jamie is unexpectedly reunited with old flame Alan (Eric Stoltz), while her husband, Paul (Paul Reiser), is given a guided hospital tour by a very big Read More

Touched By an Angel: The Comeback

Synopsis: Real-life mother and daughter Carol Burnett and Carrie Hamilton appear in this episode, which also features Burnett's former variety-show costar Tim Conway in a pivotal role--not to mention cameo appearances by musical-comedy favorite Carol Channing) and celebrated caricaturist Al Hirschfeld). Read More

Mad About You: Coming Home

Actors: Robin Bartlett

Synopsis: Season six of Mad About You picks up where season five left off, as Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) bring their new baby daughter home from the hospital. The next step: What to name the kid? Surprisingly, Jamie's scatterbrained mother, Theresa (Carol Burnett), solves this knotty Read More

Mad About You: Jamie's Parents

Actors: Carol Burnett

Synopsis: Carol Burnett and Carroll O'Connor join the cast as Jamie's parents, Theresa and Gus Stemple, the latest in a long line of actors to essay these roles. When the Stemples arrive for a two-day visit, Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) try to determine the best time to tell Theresa and Gus Read More

Biography: Jimmy Stewart - His Wonderful Life

Synopsis: Jimmy Stewart had a certain something that drew audiences and held their attention. A true "screen hero," Stewart's sincere, slightly befuddled persona as George Bailey in the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life and Elwood P. Dowd in the ever-fresh Harvey is the marker of an era. Indeed Read More

Mad About You: Outbreak

Synopsis: Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt) have decided to hold off telling everyone that Jamie is pregnant until the couple can make a formal announcement at their Thanksgiving dinner. This plan is undermined by a number of "security leaks" in the office of gynecologist Joan Golfinos (Suzie Plakson Read More

Seasons of the Heart

Actors: Carol Burnett, George Segal, Malcolm McDowell, Eric Lloyd, Jill Teed

Synopsis: After her own daughter abandons her child, an ambitious and orderly publisher has little choice but to raise the grandchild as her own. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Harry Connick, Jr.: The Christmas Special

Actors: Harry Connick, Jr.

Synopsis: Originally aired in 1994 on NBC, this Christmas special features Harry Connick, Jr. singing holiday favorites such as "Sleighride," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "All I Want for Christmas," "Jingle Bells," What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?," and "I'll Be Home Read More

Conversations with: Carol Burnett

Noises Off

Actors: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Mark Linn-Baker

Synopsis: Michael Frayn's frantic West End and Broadway farce makes a literal transformation to the screen in Peter Bogdanoch's faithful adaptation, which is transplanted from the London suburbs to Des Moines, Iowa to accommodate the (mostly) American cast. Michael Caine stars as director Lloyd Fellowes Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: The Spider Episode

Synopsis: Arachnophobia rears its ugly head in the third episode of HBO's popular late-night talk show satire The Larry Sanders Show. With a spider-wrangler scheduled to appear on the upcoming show, Larry's (Garry Shandling) reluctance to gracefully accommodate his eight-legged guests finds him attempting Read More

The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show, Vol. 1: Unforgettable Performances

Actors: Ed Sullivan

Synopsis: The Ed Sullivan Show was responsible for introducing young America to the performers and performances that would come to define a generation. In this particular compilation of performance segments from the "Really Big Show," viewers are introduced to many of the young comedians who made the world Read More

Wisecracks

Actors: Phyllis Diller, Whoopi Goldberg, Sandra Shamas, Jenny Lecoat

Synopsis: This concert and interview documentary features the racy wit of Canada and the U.S.'s most popular female comedians, including Jenny Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Phyllis Diller, Ellen DeGeneres, and Paula Poundstone. In addition to screening their stand-up gigs and providing interviews with these funny Read More

Hollywood Bloopers Uncensored

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Magnum, P.I.: A Girl Named Sue

Synopsis: Carol Burnett makes a return appearance as the redoubtable Susan Johnson, who has given up her career as bank clerk to become a private eye. Much to Magnum's dismay, he learns that he and Susan are working on the same case: to locate the missing will of a man who was killed in a highly suspicious Read More

Hostage

Carol Burnett: My Personal Best, Vol. 1

Synopsis: Hosted by the funny lady herself, this compilation video contains four of her favorite vignettes gleaned from her highly-rated, long-running television variety series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Carol Burnett: My Personal Best, Vol. 2

Synopsis: Hosted by the funny lady herself, this compilation video contains four of her favorite vignettes gleaned from her highly-rated, long-running television variety series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Billy Wilder

Synopsis: Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Billy Wilder. Included are excerpts from the following: The Apartment, Some Like it Hot and Sunset Boulevard. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Follies in Concert

Synopsis: Including such songs as "Broadway Baby," "I'm Still Here," "The Ladies Who Lunch," and "Losing My Mind," this video features a filming of the well-known Stephen Sondheim musical as it was performed at New York's Lincoln Center in 1985. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Laundromat

Actors: Carol Burnett, Amy Madigan, Michael Wright

Synopsis: Based on a 1978 play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman, The Laundromat was made for cable by acclaimed director Robert Altman. Late in the middle of one night, two women from different backgrounds meet at a laundromat. Alberta (played by Carol Burnett) is a middle-aged ex-school teacher who Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Rembrandt's Girl

Synopsis: Carol Burnett guest stars as bank teller Susan Johnson, who hires Magnum (Tom Selleck) to track down her recently paroled father Herbie Norton. Herbie is better known as "Rembrandt" because of his skills as a forger, and Susan is worried that her dad is back in the counterfeit-money business. Read More

Nobody Makes Me Cry

Synopsis: In this drama, two disparate divorcees become close friends after an automobile collision. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Between Friends

Actors: Carol Burnett, Elizabeth Taylor

Synopsis: One of television's most beloved commedians and one of Hollywood's greatest love goddesses appear together for the first time in this made-for-cable comedy drama. Mary Catherine Castelli (Carol Burnett) is a fifty-year-old real estage agent whose husband left her for a younger woman; since then Read More

Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice

Synopsis: Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice is a fact-based TV movie starring Carol Burnett and Lloyd Bridges. Burnett plays Beatrice (emphasis on the second syllable: "Be-AT-trice") who compensates for her shyness and lack of self-respect by drinking heavily. Bridges plays Beatrice's husband, who Read More

Eunice

Synopsis: The 90-minute TV special Eunice reunites the "family" originally created for the weekly variety series The Carol Burnett Show. Carol Burnett plays Eunice, the frustrated, viper-tongued, ever-envious wife of dyspeptic, long-suffering Ed (Harvey Korman, who also directed). Eunice carries on a Read More

The Four Seasons

Actors: Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno

Synopsis: The Four Seasons follows the trials and tribulations of a group of middle-aged friends during a 12-month period. Alan Alda (who also directed) and Carol Burnett play a married couple who consider themselves paragons of sensitivity and sensibility. Alda and Burnett are the instigators of a series Read More

Annie

Actors: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Aileen Quinn, Ann Reinking, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: This family classic is adapted from the Broadway musical, which was based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. During the Great Depression in New York City, a plucky red-haired scrapper named Annie (Aileen Quinn) is the voice of hope for her fellow orphans who live under the supervision of Read More

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

Actors: Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Danny Aiello, Adam Arkin

Synopsis: A former baseball player (Alan Arkin) has descended into alcoholism, and meets up with a has-been entertainer (Carol Burnett) when both spot a briefcase containing secret documents. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Tenth Month

Synopsis: Robert Altman protégé Joan Tewkesbury called the directorial shots on the made-for-TV The Tenth Month. After a whirlwind affair with famed concert pianist Keith Michell, middle-aged, unmarried Carol Burnett becomes pregnant. Rather than seek out the father, she decides to raise the baby by Read More

Bing Crosby: White Christmas

Actors: Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Crosby

Synopsis: As co-hosted by Gene Kelly and Kathryn Crosby (the wife of Bing Crosby), this exclusive video compilation presents priceless back-to-back clips from many of Bing's Christmas specials that aired from the early 1960s through the late 1970s. Featured guests include: Jackie Gleason, Twiggy, David Read More

H.E.A.L.T.H.

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Carol Burnett, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Dick Cavett

Synopsis: Robert Altman, the director responsible for M*A*S*H, came up with another acronymic title for his 1979 comedy H.E.A.L.T.H The letter stand for Happiness, Energy And Longevity Through Health--the name given a health-food convention at a Florida luxury hotel. In the tradition of his earlier Nashville Read More

Friendly Fire

Actors: Carol Burnett, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Dennis Erdman, Timothy Hutton

Synopsis: The Emmy-winning TV movie Friendly Fire was adapted by Fay Kanin from the fact-based book by C.D.B. Bryan. Carol Burnett and Ned Beatty play Peg and Gene Mullen, the parents of a young soldier who is killed in Vietnam. Dissatisfied with the "official" version of their son's death, Peg and Gene Read More

A Wedding

Actors: Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Mia Farrow, Lillian Gish, Amy Stryker, Howard Duff, Geraldine Chaplin, Dennis Christopher

Synopsis: Robert Altman's over-frenetic satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy concerns the upper-crust marriage between Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin Brenner (Amy Stryker). As the film begins, a senile bishop forgets the lines to the wedding ceremony and Nettie Sloan (the groom's Read More

The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

Actors: Charles Grodin

Synopsis: While the made-for-TV The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank sure looks like a pilot film, nobody involved would fess up to this. Based on the writings of humorist Erma Bombeck, the film stars Carol Burnett and Charles Grodin as an upwardly mobile New York couple who move themselves and Read More

The Carol Burnett Show: Bloopers and Outtakes

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 11

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway, Dick Van Dyke

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 10

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway

6 Rms Riv Vu

Synopsis: Carol Burnett and Alan Alda star in this TV version of the 1972 Broadway comedy 6 Rms Riv Vu. The title is New York Times shorthand for an available 6-room apartment with a river view. Two thirtysomething Manhattanites show up to look over this vacant apartment: Anne Miller (Carol Burnett), a Read More

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 09

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 08

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman

The Front Page

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: This third film version of the 1928 Ben Hecht/Charlie MacArthur Broadway hit The Front Page was the first one permitted to utilize all the salty profanities in the original play. Director Billy Wilder cast his two favorite leading men, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, as ace reporter Hildy Johnson Read More

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 07

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner

Pete 'n' Tillie

Actors: Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: Based on Peter DeVries' novel Witch's Milk, Pete 'n' Tillie stars Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett in the title roles. Middle-aged when they first meet, eternally joking Pete and repressed "old maid" Tillie don't immediately hit it off. Gradually, their friendship deepens into love and culminates Read More

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 06

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 05

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 04

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 03

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 02

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner

The Lucy Show: Lucy and Carol Burnett, Part 1

Actors: Carol Burnett, Rhodes Reason, Kasey Rogers, Eric Mason

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Lucy (Lucille Ball) temporarily leaves her bank job to train as a flight attendant for Trans-Global Airways. Lucy's bunkmate and fellow trainee is one Carol Tilford (Carol Burnett)--who happens to be terrified of heights. Small wonder, then, that the Read More

The Carol Burnett Show: Season 01

Actors: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner

The Lucy Show: Lucy Gets a Roommate

Actors: Carol Burnett, Mary Jane Croft, Dino Natali, Don Germano, Al Torrieri

Synopsis: Carol Burnett makes her first Lucy Show appearance as Carol Bradford, a meek, frumpy librarian who has become the new roommate of Lucy Carmichael (Lucille Ball). Hoping to get the timid Carol out of her shell, Lucy and Mary Jane (Mary Jane Croft) throw a party for the girl, replete with such Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and Carol in Palm Springs

Actors: Carol Burnett, Dan Rowan, Dino Natali, Don Germano, Al Torrieri

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of a two-part story, Lucy's roommate Carol Bradford (Carol Burnett) is hired along with The Vagabonds to perform a musical act at an upcoming Palm Springs golf tournament. When she is invited to accompany Carol to the gig, Lucy (Lucille Ball) feigns illness so she can Read More

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

Actors: Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Martin Balsam, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Carol Burnett

Synopsis: This romantic adult comedy finds psychiatrist Jason Steel (Dean Martin) the leader of a women's group therapy session. Jill St. John, Elizabeth Frazier, Macha Meril, Yoko Tani and Diane Foster all seek the advice of the handsome doctor, while husbands Louis Nye, Jack Soo, Richard Conte, and Martin Read More

The Twilight Zone: Cavender is Coming

Actors: Carol Burnett, Jesse White, Howard I. Smith, John Fiedler, Frank Behrens

Synopsis: A reworking of the first-season Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis," "Cavender Is Coming" was, like its predecessor, the pilot for a proposed comedy-fantasy TV series. Carol Burnett stars as klutzy Agnes Grep, whose combination of overeagerness and ineptitude costs her job after job. Enter Agnes' Read More

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