Hoppy-Go-Lucky

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Hoppy-Go-Lucky
Directed by Robert McKimson
Story by Tedd Pierce [1]
Produced by Edward Selzer
(uncredited)
Starring Mel Blanc
Stan Freberg
(uncredited)
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Animation by Charles McKimson
Rod Scribner
Phil DeLara
Herman Cohen
Layouts byRobert Givens
Backgrounds byRichard H. Thomas
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • August 9, 1952 (1952-08-09)
Running time
6:55
LanguageEnglish

Hoppy-Go-Lucky is a 1952 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short film directed by Robert McKimson. [2] The short was released on August 9, 1952, and stars Sylvester and Hippety Hopper. [3] The title is a play on "happy-go-lucky".

Plot

The cartoon spoofs the 1937 book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, which was popular at the time; it features a giant, dimwitted cat named "Benny", who wants Sylvester, whom he calls "George", to help him catch a mouse to "hug and pet." Mel Blanc voices Sylvester and Stan Freberg voices Benny. Sylvester tries to tell Benny the mouse is a king-sized mouse, but Benny does not believe him and threatens to "stroke his fur the wrong way" if he drives him crazy.

References

  1. ↑ Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 111. ISBN   0-8050-1644-9.
  2. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 238. ISBN   0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons . Checkmark Books. pp.  60-61. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.


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