Movies and TvShows featuring "animal-performer" theme.

Curly Top tells the story of an orphan girl named Elizabeth who captures the hearts of everyone around her with her contagious optimism and musical talent. She brings joy and love into the lives of her wealthy benefactors, but her future becomes uncertain when a conniving trustee tries to separate her from the family she has come to love. With the help of her loyal dog, Elizabeth sets out on a mission to reunite her newfound family and prove that love can conquer all.

An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and when chickens are found dead, the uncle accuses the dog of killing them. The boy decides that it's time he and the dog hit the road so they run away, and meet up with an elderly man who also ran away from a home where he believed he wasn't wanted either.

Poor Pete the Pup. He wants to hang himself because his master, Joe, has given up playing with him and going fishing for the love of a girl. A dog friend of Pete's stops him in the nick of time, and in flashback Pete tells him of his sorrows; Pete becomes a drunkard and is chased away by Joe. The last straw comes when another dog knocks Joe's sweetheart into a lake and Pete is blamed for it. Will Pete carry through with his suicide or will Joe apologize?

A 'Dippy Doo Dad' comedy with an all-animal cast.

Len Powers' Dippy-Doo-Dads (the billing received by the films' all-animal cast) cavort, drink and seek frontier justice "North of 53, where the population is split 50-50 between bad men and Northwest Mounted Police" in this broad parody of Mountie Westerns. Produced by Hal Roach Studios.