Rodent to Stardom

Rodent to Stardom
Rodent to Stardom
Directed by	Alex Lovy
Story by	Cal Howard
Produced by	William L. Hendricks
Starring	Mel Blanc
Edited by	Hal Geer
Music by	William Lava
Animation by	Volus Jones; Ted Bonnicksen; Laverne Harding; Ed Solomon
Backgrounds by	Bob Abrams
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation
Distributed by	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts; Vitagraph Company of America
Release date	September 23, 1967
Running time	6 minutes
Language	English

Rodent to Stardom is a 1967 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Alex Lovy.^[1] The short was released on September 23, 1967, and stars Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales.^[2] It is the first cartoon to credit Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, but still uses the "Abstract WB" titles.

Plot[edit]

Daffy is plucked for stardom by director Harvey Hassenpfeffer of Colossal Studios — or so he thinks. However, as he was in A Star Is Bored (1956), Daffy's real fate is to be the stuntman for the star, in this case Speedy Gonzales. The picture is The Nursery Rhyme Review. First, "the sky is falling"; next, the "rockabye baby" cradle falls from a treetop. Daffy realizes he needs to get rid of Speedy, so he asks for an autograph and traps Speedy in a book, which he deposits in a library. Daffy gets the love scene with Ducky Lamour, but after a number of stunts and just before the kiss, his stand-in, Speedy, takes over, and tells the duck, "There's no business like show business, eh, Señores Daffy?" Disgusted, Daffy replies, "Boy, you can say that again!" as he watches Speedy kissing Ducky on the cheek.

References[edit]

^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 362. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.