Verna FeltonFilmography

The Man from Button Willow

Actors: Dale Robertson, Howard Keel, Barbara Jean Wong, Herschel Bernardi

Synopsis: An American rancher--who doubles as an undercover agent--is needed in the rescue of a kidnapped senator in this animated adventure. Helping him is his horse Rebel and a good friend named Sorry. The film is distributed by United Screen Arts, the company formed by starring voice Dale Robertson. Read More

The Flintstones: Foxy Grandma

Synopsis: Although he knows that his pregnant wife Wilma needs some help around the house, Fred would just as soon not have his mother-in-law move in. Thus, he hires a sweet-looking old lady to serve as housekeeper. Unfortunately, the old dear turns out to be the notorious bank robber Grandma Dynamite, who Read More

The Flintstones: Mother-in-Law's Visit

Synopsis: Now that Wilma is pregnant (she's kept busy studying her "Dr. Spooks" baby book!), Fred tries to control his temper, but this proves to be extremely difficult when his contentious mother-in-law shows up to help Wilma in her hour of need. Not that Fred doesn't give it his best shot, as witness his Read More

The Flintstones: The Little Stranger

Synopsis: Knowing that Fred is not exactly fond of Arnold the Newsboy, Wilma is a bit nervous about allowing Arnold to stay in the Flintstone house while his mother is out of town. Thus, when broaching the subject to Fred, she makes vague references to a "little stranger" coming to visit. Not surprisingly Read More

The Flintstones: Trouble-In-Law

Synopsis: Veteran character actress Verna Felton supplies the voice of Mrs. Slaghoople, the overbearing mother of stone-age hausfrau Wilma Flintstone. Having sold her own house, Mrs. S moves in with daughter Wilma and son-in-law Fred, who complains that the event is comparable to "Grant taking Richmond" Read More

Guns of the Timberlands

Actors: Alan Ladd, Jeanne Crain, Gilbert Roland, Frankie Avalon, Lyle Bettger

Synopsis: In this action drama, ranchers and lumberjacks are at loggerheads over the proper usage of the land. When the logging team finds a prime stand, the ranchers beg the loggers not to harvest it because the lack of trees will cause deadly mud slides during the rainy season that will destroy their Read More

Sleeping Beauty

Actors: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton

Synopsis: Disney produced this lavish animated fairy tale, the most expensive cartoon ever made up to its release with a budget of $6 million. When the young princess Aurora is cursed at birth by the evil fairy Maleficent, the baby is kidnapped by a trio of good fairies who raise the girl themselves, hoping Read More

Taming Sutton's Gal

Actors: John Lupton, Gloria Talbott, Jack Kelly, May Wynn, Verna Felton

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, Taming Sutton's Gal is a backwoods melodrama with comic undertones. John Lupton plays citified bank clerk Frank McClary, who heads to hillbilly country to do some hunting. He rents a room from Aunty Sutton (Verna Felton), whose niece Lou (Gloria Talbott) takes a liking Read More

The Oklahoman

Actors: Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter, Gloria Talbott, Verna Felton

Synopsis: Joel McCrea stars in this leisurely paced Western from Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) originally released in Cinemascope. Having lost his wife in childbirth en route to California, Dr. John Brighton (McCrea) builds a new home for himself and his baby daughter in an Oklahoma backwater town Read More

Lady and the Tramp

Actors: Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson

Synopsis: Lady and the Tramp represented two "firsts" for Disney: It was the studio's first Cinemascope animated feature, and it was their first full-length cartoon based on an original story rather than an established "classic". Lady is the pampered female dog belonging to Jim Dear and Darling. When her Read More

Picnic

Actors: William Holden, Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles into a small Kansas town during the Labor Day celebration to look up old college chum Alan Read More

I Love Lucy: Sales Resistance

Actors: Sheldon Leonard, Verna Felton

Synopsis: With Lucy (Lucille Ball) still in the hospital with her new baby boy, Ricky Jr., the Ricardos and the Mertzes reminisce to an earlier incident which illustrates Lucy's lack of sales resistance. (This episode was filmed before the birth of Lucy's baby, but telecast after the big event.) It seems Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy Hires a Maid

Actors: Verna Felton, Richard Lee Simmons, Ronald Lee Simmons

Synopsis: Overwhelmed by the responsibilities of motherhood, Lucy (Lucille Ball) decides to hire a maid named Mrs. Porter (Verna Felton). In preparation for her new servant's arrival, Lucy meticulously prepares a list of do's and don'ts to help Mrs. Porter perform her job more efficiently. Imagine our Read More

Don't Bother to Knock

Actors: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney

Synopsis: Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal young woman, recently released from a mental institution. She doesn't mention this on her resumé when she takes a baby-sitting job in a posh hotel. Jed Towers (Richard Widmark Read More

Belles on Their Toes

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Edward Arnold

Synopsis: Myrna Loy returns as Mrs. Gilbreth -- efficiency expert, industrial engineer, and mother of twelve -- in this sequel to Cheaper By The Dozen. After the death of her husband, Gilbreth is forced to take over as the family's primary breadwinner, but she soon discovers that not every company who hired Read More

New Mexico

Actors: Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Robert Hutton, Andy Devine, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Filmed in Ansco Color (a fancy name for Eastmancolor), New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as Capt. Hunt, a U.S. Cavalry Captain stationed in Indian territory. Sympathetic to the plight of the long-suffering Native Americans, Hunt sets out to sign a peace treaty with the local chief (Ted de Corsia). En Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna

Synopsis: This Disney feature-length cartoon combines the most entertaining elements of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Chasing after the White Rabbit, who runs into view singing "I'm Late! I'm Late!," Alice falls down the rabbit hole into the topsy-turvy alternate world Read More

Little Egypt

Actors: Mark Stevens, Rhonda Fleming, Nancy Guild, Charles Drake, Tom D'Andrea

Synopsis: Little Egypt is a lighthearted "biopic" all about the hootchie-kootchie dancer who created a sensation at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. An incongruously redheaded Rhonda Fleming plays Izora, a cabaret dancer in old Cairo. American impresario Cyrus Graydon (Minor Watson) hopes to re-create an Read More

The Gunfighter

Actors: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Cliff Clark, Angela Clarke, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, David Clarke, Ellen Corby, Karl Malden

Synopsis: In this classic noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child Read More

Buccaneer's Girl

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Phillip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester, Andrea King

Synopsis: The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While visiting New Orleans, Deborah falls in love with aristocratic Frederick Baptiste (Philip Friend), who turns out to be a pirate. Baptiste is basically a decent fellow: his Read More

Cinderella

Actors: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Helene Stanley

Synopsis: Cinderella was Walt Disney's return to feature-length "story" cartoons after eight years of turning out episodic pastiches like Make Mine Music and Three Caballeros. A few understandable liberties are taken with the original Charles Perrault fairy tale (the wicked stepsisters, for example, do not Read More

The Fuller Brush Man

Actors: Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire, Hillary Brooke, Adele Jergens

Synopsis: MGM knew it had a valuable property in Red Skelton, but the studio never really knew how to handle his unique talents -- until he was loaned out to Columbia for the hilarious, money-spinning slapstick comedy The Fuller Brush Man. The star plays Red Jones, a born screw-up who can't seem to hold Read More

She Wrote the Book

Actors: Joan Davis, Jack Oakie, Mischa Auer, Kirby Grant, John Litel

Synopsis: In this comedy, a puritanical math teacher at a midwestern university is forced by the dean's wife to go to New York to collect the royalties for a naughty romance the latter wrote under a penname. Unfortunately, while there, the professor suffers a blow to the noodle and wakes up believing that Read More

Girls of the Big House

Actors: Lynne Roberts, Virginia Christine, Marion Martin, Adele Mara, Richard Powers

Synopsis: A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided. The conflict ends in murder. In the end, the innocent woman's Read More

Eatin' on the Cuff

Synopsis: This one opens with a live-action shot of a pianist (played by former Chaplin foil Leo White, but voiced by Mel Blanc) as he musically recounts the story of a Moth and his "flame"--namely a Honey Bee. Hoping to horn into this romance and claim the Moth for herself is a homely Black Widow Spider Read More

Dumbo

Actors: Sterling Holloway, Edward S. Brophy, Herman Bing, Verna Felton, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: The shortest of Disney's major animated features Dumbo involves a baby elephant with unusually large ears. Ostracized from the rest of the circus animals, poor Dumbo is even separated from his mother, who is chained up in a separate cage after trying to defend her child. Only brash-but-lovable Read More

If I Had My Way

Actors: Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, El Brendel, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed. She and he head to New York to look for her uncle, a vaudevillian. With the help of a good pal, they soon find the uncle. The three searchers encounter trouble when the pal Read More

Northwest Passage

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis:
Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film adaptation-much less one in Technicolor. Amazingly, MGM retained many of the grim episodes from the Roberts' novel, though - thanks to the Hays Code - most are discussed Read More