I Only Have Eyes for You (film)

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I Only Have Eyes for You
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The Blue Ribbon title card
Directed by Fred Avery
Story by Bob Clampett
Produced by Leon Schlesinger
StarringJoe Twerp
Elvia Allman
Tedd Pierce
Edited by Treg Brown
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Animation byBob Clampett
Virgil Ross
Joe D'Igalo
Tom Ray
Cecil Surry
Layouts byGriff Jay
Backgrounds byArt Loomer
Color process Technicolor
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • February 27, 1937 (1937-02-27) [1]
(original release), March 17, 1945 (Blue Ribbon reissue)
Running time
about 8 minutes
LanguageEnglish

I Only Have Eyes for You is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery. [2] The short was released on February 27, 1937. [3]

Contents

The title of this short is based on the song of the same name.

Plot

The protagonist (voiced by spoonerism specialist Joe Twerp), who drives an ice-delivery truck, is wooed by a homely spinster bird (voiced by Elvia Allman) who hopes to entice him with her culinary talents. The iceman, on the other hand, is only interested in Katie Canary (a Katharine Hepburn impression also voiced by Allman), who only wants to marry a radio crooner and rebuffs his overtures to the point where she prefers ordering a refrigerator.

The iceman, in order to win Katie, hires a voice imitator, Professor Mockingbird (voiced by Tedd Pierce), to simulate crooners from the back of his ice truck while the iceman lip-syncs. The scheme eventually backfires when Professor Mockingbird turns blue from the extreme cold in the ice truck, and gets sick to the point that he sneezes the top of the truck off, causing Katie to discover the iceman's ruse. Katie marries the Professor, being sufficiently impressed by his crooning ability (while replacing her radio with an electric refrigerator), while the iceman is finally won over by the spinster's cooking and baking and presumably marries her.

Notes

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References

  1. ↑ "The Film Daily (Jan-Feb 1937)". Wid's Films and Film Folk, inc. January 1937. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  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. 54. ISBN   0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  4. ↑ "WARNER BROS. TITLES". www.cartoonresearch.com.
  5. ↑ Sigall, Martha (2005). Living Life Inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation. ISBN   9781578067497.


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