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Orson Welles, Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, James Coburn, Frank Oz, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise, Elliott Gould, Jim Henson, Bob Hope, Madeline Kahn, Carol Kane, Cloris Leachman, Richard Pryor, Telly Savalas, Edgar Bergen, and Paul Williams in The Muppet Movie (1979)

Cloris Leachman: Lord's Secretary

The Muppet Movie

Cloris Leachman credited as playing...

Lord's Secretary

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  • [Kermit and the Muppets arrive in Hollywood and are entering Lew Lord's waiting room, heading straight for his office]
  • Miss Piggy: Oh, Kermie, look, it's wonderful. Like a dream come true.
  • Kermit: Well, don't count your tadpoles until they've hatched, I still have to audition, you know.
  • Floyd Pepper: Hey, there ain't nothin' to it but to do it!
  • Lord's Secretary: [after she tries to silently stop them, she pushes a button to close the door] And where do you think you're going?
  • Kermit: [Pleasantly] Oh, hi there. We're here to audition for Lew Lord.
  • Lord's Secretary: Well, you just can't walk in here off the street you know, especially with all these animals.
  • Kermit: Animals? Wh-What's wrong with animals?
  • [Muppets mutter indignantly but indistinctly as they move central to her desk]
  • Lord's Secretary: [Stop them, loudly] This is a movie studio, not a zoo. Besides...
  • [sneezes]
  • Lord's Secretary: ... I'm allergic to animal hair. Now get along all of you.
  • Kermit: Now wait a second, miss. I may not be one of your fancy Hollywood frogs, but I deserve a chance, and we're going to stay right here in this office until you let us in to see Lew Lord. Aren't we, gang?
  • Kermit: [the Muppets shout "Yes" indistinctly] We're just going to go sit right down over here and wait.
  • Lord's Secretary: [Picks up the phone, and int it] Security, Miss Tracey. I want to report a...
  • Kermit: [Turns on the fan in the office] C'mon guys. Shake!
  • [the Muppets start shaking shake their fur]
  • Kermit: [as they're talking and shaking their dander at Miss Tracy] I'm allergic to cats, myself.
  • [Meanwhile Miss Tracy is having such a sneezing fit she nearly passed out, and then reaches up to buzz the door open]
  • Kermit: [They proceed into Lew Lord's office] Okay guys, way to go! Uh, thanks, Miss.
  • [She's laying in a heap just waving them through.]
  • Kermit: Well guys, this is it.
  • [the office door opens up and an angelic chorus sings.]

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