Nora Denney

Nora Denney Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nora Denney (September 3, 1927 – November 20, 2005), also known and credited as Dodo Denney, was an American stage, television, and film actress. Her show business career began in Kansas City when she was hired by the local television station Channel 5 (KCMO TV) to play Marilyn the Witch, an onscreen host for horror movies.

She performed in many television series, including Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Hart to Hart, Get Smart, Room 222 and That Girl, and her film credits included Who's Minding the Mint? (1967), I Walk the Line (1970), Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971), I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (1975), American Hot Wax (1978) and Truman (1995). She made her final film appearance in 1999, in Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil.

Perhaps her most notable film role was as Mrs. Teevee in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), starring Gene Wilder and Jack Albertson.

Nora Denney Movies

Nora Denney Quotes

Discovery of the Chocolate Makers

Charlie: Grandpa, look over there across the river! They're little men!

Grandpa Joe: Jumping crocodiles, Charlie! Now we know who makes the chocolate.

Henry Salt: I never saw anybody with an orange face before. Funny-looking people, aren't they, Wonka?

Mrs. Teevee: What are they doing there?

Wonka: Must be creaming and sugaring time.

Violet: Well, they can't be real people.

Wonka: Well, of course they're real people.

Henry Salt: Stuff and nonsense!

Wonka: No. Oompa Loompas.

Group: [turn around] Oompa Loompas?!

Wonka: From Loompaland.

Mrs. Teevee: Loompaland?! There's no such place.

Wonka: Excuse me, dear lady...

Mrs. Teevee: [[geography] Mr. Wonka, I am a teacher of ].

Wonka: Oh, well, then you know all about it. And what a terrible country it is! Nothing but desolate wastes and fierce beasts. And the poor little Oompa Loompas were so small and helpless, they would get gobbled up right and left. A Whangdoodle would eat ten of them for breakfast and think nothing of it. And so, I said, "Come and live with me in peace and safety, away from all the Whangdoodles, and Hornswogglers, and Snozzwangers, and rotten Vermicious Knids.

Henry Salt: Snozzwangers? Vermicious Knids? What kind of rubbish is that?

Wonka: [continues] I'm sorry, but all questions must be submitted in writing. And so, in the greatest of secrecy, I transported the entire population of Oompa Loompas to my factory here.

Veruca: Hey, Daddy, I want an Oompa Loompa. I want you to get me an Oompa Loompa right away!

Henry Salt: All right, Veruca, all right. I'll get you one before the day is out.

Veruca: I want an Oompa Loompa now!

Violet: [Veruca glares at Violet] Can it, you nit!!

Augustus Gloop: [drinking from the chocolate river] Mmm! This stuff is terrific!

Charlie: Grandpa, look at Augustus!

Grandpa Joe: Don't worry, he can't drink it all!