Elizabeth Larner Elizabeth Larner Elizabeth Larner (born 1931) is a British actress and a singer with a powerful soprano voice. While her main career was the musical theatre, appearing both in London's West End and on Broadway, she was a seemingly unlikely, but inspired, choice to play Ammonia in the BBC situation comedy "Up Pompeii!" - a role she made her own. She later appeared in "The Two Ronnies", supporting Ronnie Barker as "Piggy Malone" and Ronnie Corbett as "Charley Farley" in the 1981-2 comic detective mystery serial "Band of Slaves". Elizabeth Larner appeared on television from the mid-1950s. Her singing gained
Piggy (Merrie Melodies) came from one of two brothers who were childhood classmates of Freleng's, nicknamed "Porky" and "Piggy". Animator Rudolf Ising introduced Piggy to replace his previous character, Foxy, as the star of the "Merrie Melodies" series Ising was directing for producer Leon Schlesinger. Nonetheless, Ising had only made two Piggy shorts in 1931 before he left Warner Bros. with partner Hugh Harman. The animators who took over the "Merrie Melodies" cartoons dropped the Piggy character (as well as his girlfriend Fluffy) and turned the series into a string of one-shots. Despite their clichéd lead character, Ising's two Piggy shorts are well