Billy Gilbert’s Typical Vibe
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Billy Gilbert has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1940s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Great Dictator.
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Ferdinand the Bull
1938
Animation · Comedy

You’re Missing the Point
1940
Comedy

Shall We Dance
1937
Comedy · Romance

Sons of the Desert
1933
Comedy

The Awful Truth
1937
Comedy · Romance

It's a Gift
1934
Comedy

Animal Crackers
1930
Comedy · Music

The Flying Deuces
1939
Comedy · War

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Dir. Charlie Chaplin · With Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.
Dir. David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Wilfred Jackson · With Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell

as Professor von Schwarzenhoffen (uncredited)
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.
Dir. James Parrott · With Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Billy Gilbert

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Dir. George Marshall · With James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer

It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
Dir. John G. Blystone · With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Dir. George Sidney · With Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly

as Willie the Giant (voice) (uncredited) · Voice
A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant's magnificent castle up in the blue sky?
Dir. Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts · With Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.
Dir. Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, William Morgan · With Edgar Bergen, Dinah Shore, Luana Patten
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