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Granny's Funeral

After Granny's death, Armand, pharmacist in Chatou, France, has to deal with his father who has Alzheimers, his wife, Helen, who doesn't want to divorce and his very demanding mistress, Alix.


A Collection of Romantic Themes

This compilation consists of tracks from his 1992 Granny-nominated album Dare to Dream and his 1993 follow-up album In My Time as well as from Reflections of Passion and Yanni Live at the Acropolis.

Ann Gilbert

On October 24, 1904, at the New Lyceum Theatre, Mrs. Gilbert made her first appearance as a star, being then in the eighty-second year of her age, in a play, by Clyde Fitch, called Granny with a young Marie Doro in one of her earliest roles.

Barbara Rafferty

She currently plays Granny Mainland in the new CBeebies TV series, Katie Morag.

Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor

The friction between Arnold and General Horatio Gates, portrayed near the beginning of the film (for example, in one scene when Arnold derisively refers to him as "Granny Gates"), was historically accurate.

Bolognese bell ringing art

The heaviest bell used with this system is in Bologna Cathedral, and is called la Nonna ("the Granny") and weighs 3.3 tonnes.

Carole Boyd

Her TV appearances include Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Virtual Murder, Mrs Melly in Bodger and Badger, and she did the voices in Postman Pat since 1991 of all the female characters, Sara Clifton, Dr. Sylvia Gilbertson, Mrs Goggins, Miss Rebecca Hubbard, Julia Pottage, Dorothy Thompson, Lucy Selby, Katy and Tom Pottage, Charlie Pringle, Julian Clifton, Sarah Gilbertson and Bill Thompson (except Granny Dryden who is still voiced by Ken Barrie).

Children's food festival

Other guests have included Annabel Karmel, Jane Fearnley Whittingstall (author of The Good Granny Cookbook), Sam Stern (the Teenage Chef), Nora Sands (Jamie’s School Dinner Lady)and children’s cookery writer Amanda Grant.

Ghost of Christmas Past

In Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, Granny and Tweety take on the role of the Ghost of Christmas Past (June Foray and Bob Bergen, respectively).

Granny Goose

In a series of television commercials first aired in the 1960s, the company's spokesperson, who self-identified as "Granny Goose", was portrayed by actor Philip Carey as a tough James Bond-style spy.

Granny Had No Worries

Granny Had No Worries or Nie miała baba kłopotu is a 1935 Polish comedy film directed by Aleksander Ford and Michał Waszyński.

Granny Made Me an Anarchist

Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me is the 2002 autobiography of Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie.

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty

The plot centres on Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, who loses the plotline as she tells her own version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified granddaughter.

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty is a six-minute-long CG/flash animated socially satirical black comedy short film, directed by Nicky Phelan and produced by Darragh O'Connell of Brown Bag Films in 2008.

Granny Smith Festival

The Granny Smith Festival in 2007 was of particular significance, in that it became a major campaign venue for the Australian federal election, 2007.

It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House

In addition, Granny is voiced here by GeGe Pearson instead of June Foray, who marks her swan song appearance as owner of Sylvester; Granny would make one more appearance in a Warner Bros. cartoon later in 1965.

J.R. Quiñahan

Dubbed "Baby Shaq" in the Philippine Basketball League where he played for the Granny Goose team because of his physical resemblance to the Boston Celtics center Shaquille O'Neal.

Linus the Lionhearted

In addition to Leonard, Carl Reiner voiced several characters, most notably Linus' friend Billy Bird; Ruth Buzzi voiced an old woman who'd befriended Lovable Truly, as well as Sugar Bear's sometime nemesis, Granny Goodwitch; and veteran Bob McFadden voiced So Hi, Rory and Lovable Truly.

Mark Slaughter

He also provided vocals to the song "Granny's Gone Crazy" on the album Babez for Breakfast by Lordi.

Muzzle Tough

Granny, frightened at the sight, thinks the bear had been "playing 'possum for twenty years" and fires several pistol shots at Sylvester (a partial reference to The Fair-Haired Hare) before Hector chases him out again.

Paul Gorman

In 2008, Gorman launched fashion label The Look Presents through Topman with three collections based on artist and designers featured in The Look: t-shirts by Wonder Workshop; t-shirts by Granny Takes a Trip founder Nigel Waymouth; and Priceless - a menswear range by Antony Price, designer for Roxy Music and Duran Duran.

Philip Carey

Carey became well known for a series of tongue-in-cheek television commercials for Granny Goose potato chips, in which he self-identified as "Granny Goose", portraying the company's spokesperson as a tough cowboy.

Pink Pistons

He takes it to his garage, repaints it with Pink Lacquer, then takes it out for a ride, only to have it go crazy when it races Granny Flash, Senior Citizens Drag Champion.

Rappin' Granny

In her audition, Rappin' Granny gave a performance that was very popular among the crowd and the judges, all of whom (Brandy, David Hasselhoff, and Piers Morgan) advanced her to the next round by way of a unanimous vote.

Readalong

The program taught fundamentals of reading with the help of live child actors and puppets, including a comically dressed grandmother figure named Granny and anthropomorphic footwear: a brown, male boot and pink, female shoe named, appropriately, Boot (voiced by Jack Duffy) and Pretty.

Red Riding Hoodwinked

' latest adaptation of the "Little Red Riding Hood" children's story, with the Big Bad Wolf and Granny playing their respective roles, with Tweety and Sylvester taking appropriate sides.

Rod Roddy

He conducted a long-running on-air feud with an elderly woman, dubbed "Granny Hate" by an earlier host, who claimed to represent the local Ku Klux Klan.

Selfless, Brave and True

At Granny's Diner, Greg (Ethan Embry) is enjoying apple pie and learns that Regina (Lana Parrilla) had bought it for him as thanks for finding Henry.

Virman Vundabar

He models his personality and schemes on Prussian military appearance and precision partly because of the Earth-based name assigned to him by Granny.


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