Stage Door Cartoon

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Stage Door Cartoon
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Directed by I. Freleng
Story by Michael Maltese
Starring Mel Blanc
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Animation by Jack Bradbury
Color process Technicolor
Production
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Release date
  • December 30, 1944 (1944-12-30)
Running time
8:04
LanguageEnglish

Stage Door Cartoon is a 1944 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. [1] [2] The short was released on December 30, 1944, and features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. [3]

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Plot

Elmer Fudd attempts to catch Bugs Bunny with a carrot on a fish hook, but Bugs attaches the hook to Elmer's pants and reels Elmer in. Then Elmer chases Bugs into a theater; Bugs disguises himself as a can-can dancer, but Elmer recognizes Bugs, and prevents him from exiting the stage. Bugs dances, then plays the piano where Elmer hides and gets bounced around. Bugs tricks Elmer into high-diving into a glass of water. Elmer is tricked into wearing a Shakesperean costume and, prompted by Bugs, acts, then does poses and silly faces; Bugs prompts the booing audience to throw a tomato at Elmer.

Elmer is tricked into performing a striptease down to his shorts. Bugs disguises himself as a southern sheriff while the real sheriff arrests Elmer for "indecent southern exposure". But the sheriff stays for the Bugs Bunny cartoon on the movie screen. Elmer notices the scene with Bugs' disguise, thinks the sheriff is an impostor, and pulls off his pants—disrobing a real sheriff, who furiously escorts Elmer out of the theater with his rifle as Bugs conducts the orchestra in a finale.

Home media

See also

References

  1. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company. p. 156. ISBN   0-8050-0894-2.
  2. Maltin, Leonard (1987). Of Mice And Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Plume. p. 428. ISBN   0-452-25993-2.
  3. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–61. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.

Further reading

Preceded by Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1944
Succeeded by