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Knighty Knight Bugs is the fifth Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes entry to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1959. In doing so, it beat out cartoons Walt Disney Studios' Paul Bunyan and Terrytoons' Sidney's Family Tree. [4] It was the third Oscar-nominated Bugs Bunny cartoon, after A Wild Hare in 1941 [5] and Hiawatha's Rabbit ...
Bugs Bunny is a cartoon character created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons (originally Leon Schlesinger Productions) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. [4] Bugs is best known for his featured roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Earlier iterations of the character first appeared in Ben Hardaway's Porky's Hare Hunt ...
This is a list of the various animated cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny.He starred in over 160 theatrical animated short films of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
What's Cookin' Doc? is a 1943-produced, 1944 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Bob Clampett, [1] and stars Bugs Bunny. [2] The short was also written by Michael Sasanoff, and was animated by Robert McKimson, along with uncredited work by Rod Scribner, Phil Monroe and Virgil Ross. [3] The film was released on ...
What movie was the first Oscars sweep, the first "screwball comedy," the inspiration for Bugs Bunny. Say happy 90th birthday to "It Happened One Night"
The Film Daily called the short a "very funny cartoon", saying, "the result is a howl from start to finish. The serious-minded Indian's efforts to catch the screwball rabbit for stewing purposes makes a lively and comical race. Bugs Bunny gets better and funnier with every screen appearance." [3]
Bugs turns down dozens of scripts, including one entitled Life With Father.Bugs predicts: "Ehhh...this will never be a hit." It actually ran for 3,224 performances (1939-1947) on Broadway, making it the longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history [4] (and, as of when this cartoon was made in 1950, the longest running Broadway show of any kind).
Hare Trigger is a 1945 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. [1] The cartoon was released on May 5, 1945, and features Bugs Bunny. [2] The short featured the first appearance of Yosemite Sam, as well as the first short to credit (almost) the whole animation staff who worked on the short (previously, shorts credited the director, one animator, writer, musical director and sometimes ...