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Judy Canova (November 20, 1913 – August 5, 1983), born Juliette Canova, (some sources indicate Julietta Canova), was an American comedienne, actress, singer, and radio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own self-titled network radio program, a popular series broadcast from 1943 to 1955.
When bandleader Rudy Vallée offered the still-teenaged Canova a guest spot on his radio show in 1931, The Fleischmann Hour, the door opened to a career that spanned more than five decades. The popularity of the Canova family led to numerous performances on radio in the 1930s, and they made their Broadway theater debut in the revue Calling All Stars. An offer from Warner Bros. led to several bit parts before she signed with Republic Pictures.
She recorded for the RCA Victor label and appeared in more than two dozen Hollywood films, playing leading roles as well as supporting parts, including Scatterbrain (1940), Joan of Ozark (1942), and Lay That Rifle Down (1955). In 1943, she began her own radio program, The Judy Canova Show, that ran for twelve years—first on CBS and then on NBC. Playing herself as a love-starved Ozark bumpkin dividing her time between home and Southern California.
By the time her radio program ended in 1955, Canova made a smooth transition to television with appearances on The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Steve Allen Show, Matinee Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Make Room For Daddy,and other shows. In 1967, she portrayed Mammy Yokum in an unsold TV pilot adapted from Al Capp’s Li’l Abner. She also worked on Broadway and in Vegas nightclubs through the early 1970s, touring with No, No Nanette in 1971. She appeared as a mystery guest on the TV show What’s My Line on July 18, 1954.
Canova is honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to the film & television Industry.
Judy Canova Biography / Wiki
| Name | Judy Canova |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Starke, Florida, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1913-11-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 69 |
| Deathday | 1983-08-05 |
Judy Canova Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Louisiana Hayride | Judy Crocker | 1944-07-13 | A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings…. |
| Joan of Ozark | Judy Hull | 1942-07-15 | An uninhibited Arkansas farmgirl discovers a group of Nazis operating in the United States. Director Joseph Santley’s broad WWII comedy stars Judy Can… |
| The WAC From Walla Walla | Judy Canova | 1952-10-10 | An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army…. |
| Carolina Cannonball | Judy Canova | 1955-01-28 | Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down a… |
| Sis Hopkins | Sis Hopkins | 1941-04-12 | An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical…. |
| Oklahoma Annie | Judy Canova | 1952-03-24 | A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy…. |
| Hit the Hay | Judy Stevens / Helen Rand | 1945-11-29 | An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer…. |
| Scatterbrain | Judy Hull | 1940-07-20 | A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl–a hillbilly from the Ozarks–to a movie contract. Comedy…. |
| Lay That Rifle Down | Judy Canova | 1955-07-07 | Director Charles Lamont’s 1955 comedy, about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life, stars Judy Canova, Rob… |
| Puddin’ Head | Judy Goober | 1941-06-25 | On the day that United Broadcasting System’s new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the w… |
| Untamed Heiress | Judy | 1954-03-31 | Judy is the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew “Cactus” Clayton. Now Clayton hopes to repay the favor, but first … |
| Hillbilly Jamboree | 1960-01-01 | A lost film featuring “Grand Ole Opry” style acts…. | |
| True to the Army | Daisy Hawkins | 1942-03-21 | A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend’s Army base…. |
| Singin’ in the Corn | Judy McCoy | 1946-12-26 | Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost tow… |
| Sleepytime Gal | Bessie Cobb | 1942-03-05 | Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami’s swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell ca… |
| Sleepy Lagoon | Judy Joyner | 1943-09-05 | Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to t… |
| Honeychile | Judy Canova | 1951-10-20 | A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission…. |
| Chatterbox | Judy Boggs | 1943-04-27 | While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood “cowboy” star–whose offscreen image is exactly the opposite of his onscreen one–is saved from disa… |
| Thrill of a Lifetime | Judy Canova | 1937-12-03 | “Howdy” Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He i… |
| Artists & Models | Toots | 1937-08-04 | An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign…. |
| Cannonball | Sharma Capri | 1976-07-06 | Coy “Cannonball” Buckman (David Carradine) and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the conti… |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Sheriff’s Wife | 1960-07-21 | From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi…. |
| Going Highbrow | Annie | 1935-08-23 | A ditzy wife yearns to join “high society” when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy…. |
| In Caliente | Specialty Singer | 1935-05-25 | At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he’s trashed in print…. |
| Things You Never See on the Screen | Self | 1935-12-01 | Collection of Warner’s stars blundering through missed takes…. |
| Broadway Gondolier | Hillbilly Specialty | 1935-07-27 | A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job…. |
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