STAR: "Pepe Le Pew".
Director: CHARLES M. JONES. Story: Michael Maltese. Animation: Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe. Lay-outs: P. Gribbroek. Backgrounds: Paul Alvarado. Voice characterisations: Mel Blanc. Music director: Carl W. Stalling. Color by Technicolor. Producer: Edward Selzer.
Copyright 28 November 1949 by The Vitaphone Corp. (In notice: 1948). A Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" cartoon. U.S. release: 12 November 1949. 7 minutes.
COMMENT: Although it actually won the 1949 prestigious Hollywood award for Best Cartoon, defeating M-G-M's Hatch Up Your Troubles, UPA's Magic Fluke, and Walt Disney's Toy Tinkers, this, the first Pepe Le Pew cartoon, but not in my opinion (despite its prestigious Hollywood award) one of the very best.
Admittedly, it has its ingenious moments. But in this one, the background (a perfume shop) is too circumscribed, the designs are not as art deco colorful, and Pepe doesn't quite have that jaunty Maurice Chevalier air which makes him so totally endearing in his later films. I don't remember him singing in this one either.
Director: CHARLES M. JONES. Story: Michael Maltese. Animation: Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe. Lay-outs: P. Gribbroek. Backgrounds: Paul Alvarado. Voice characterisations: Mel Blanc. Music director: Carl W. Stalling. Color by Technicolor. Producer: Edward Selzer.
Copyright 28 November 1949 by The Vitaphone Corp. (In notice: 1948). A Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" cartoon. U.S. release: 12 November 1949. 7 minutes.
COMMENT: Although it actually won the 1949 prestigious Hollywood award for Best Cartoon, defeating M-G-M's Hatch Up Your Troubles, UPA's Magic Fluke, and Walt Disney's Toy Tinkers, this, the first Pepe Le Pew cartoon, but not in my opinion (despite its prestigious Hollywood award) one of the very best.
Admittedly, it has its ingenious moments. But in this one, the background (a perfume shop) is too circumscribed, the designs are not as art deco colorful, and Pepe doesn't quite have that jaunty Maurice Chevalier air which makes him so totally endearing in his later films. I don't remember him singing in this one either.