The challenge: 1. Name all the celebrities pictured. 2. Name the celebrities who are still alive. 3. If they were all still alive, who would be the youngest?
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Animaniacs Movie Poster #5: "Hooray for Hollywood"
Here's another preliminary poster for a proposed Animaniacs feature film. I love the Hirschfeld-like caricatures Bob Doucette drew into the margins. Many of the elements of this story found their way into the Animaniacs two-parter, "Hooray for North Hollywood."
The challenge: 1. Name all the celebrities pictured. 2. Name the celebrities who are still alive. 3. If they were all still alive, who would be the youngest?
The challenge: 1. Name all the celebrities pictured. 2. Name the celebrities who are still alive. 3. If they were all still alive, who would be the youngest?
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ReplyDeleteHarpo Marx
Groucho Marx
Chico Marx
Marilyn Monroe
Mickey Rooney (alive)
Judy Garland
Buster Keaton
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Shirley Temple (alive, youngest)
Harold Lloyd
unknown
Mae West
unknown
unknown
Edward G. Robinson
unknown
Katherine Hepburn
Boris Karloff
Rudolf Valentino (?)
Lauren Bacall (alive)
Clark Gable
Greta Garbo
That's my best guess...
Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteBeside the four you listed as unknown, there are two others that are misidentified.
1.
ReplyDeleteHarpo Marx
Groucho Marx
Chico Marx
Marilyn Monroe
Mickey Rooney
Judy Garland
Buster Keaton
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Shirley Temple
Harold Lloyd
Carole Lombard
Mae West
Fred Astaire
Charlie Chaplin
Edward G. Robinson
Veronica Lake
Joan Crawford
Boris Karloff
Peter Lorre
Bette Davis
Clark Gable
Greta Garbo
2.
Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple
3.
Shirley Temple
Wbwolf and Trudyscousin: you are both correct regarding the 2nd and 3rd challenges.
ReplyDeleteAs for the roll call-- challenge #1: Trudyscousin, you correctly identified 14 out of 21 caricatures.
I'm a bit late to comment on this, but I can't help it. These are awesome Hirschfeld caricatures.
ReplyDeleteArthur "Harpo" Marx
Julius "Groucho" Marx
Leonard "Chico" Marx
Marilyn Monroe
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
Buster Keaton!
Laurel and Hardy
Shirley Temple
Harold Lloyd
Joan Crawford?
Mae West
Fred Astaire
Maurice Chevaliare
Greta Garbo
Oscar Levant!
Katherine Hepburn
Ronald Regan?
Doug Fairbanks? Rudy Valentino?
Bette Davis
Clark Gable
Theda Bera or Ethel Barrymore
Mickey and Shirley are still alive. Shirley would be the youngest.
Nicely done
ReplyDeleteI believe that's Gloria Swanson for your Joan Crawford...
Edw. G. Robinson for your Oscar Levant, although it does look like Oscar Levant!
Boris Karloff for Reagan
That's Valentino
And yes, Theda Bara
You know, I was thinking of an update to this "Animaniacs" two-parter where instead of getting their script turned into a movie, the sibs would want to make an album and needed Plotz to green-light it, but his response would be the same. Because of this, there would be some changes such as the sibs trying to get a gig instead of getting someone to finance the movie (once Plotz rejects the script), Plotz reflecting on an ended franchise ("Harry Potter") instead of banking on "Jamalot", and an extended version of "Variety Speak" (combining the cartoon version and the "Hooray For North Hollywood" version) at the beginning to set the updated plot in motion. Of course, this is just my take. It would be nice to see the original two-parter on DVD either on its own or as part of "Animaniacs Volume 4", whenever the WB studio does decide to release that.
ReplyDeleteHey Tom,
ReplyDeleteI have not seen this episode of Animaniacs, but I would like to. Is there any way I could see it? I've been looking for it online, and WB hasn't released the last volume of Animaniacs. And believe me, there is demand for it. On Youtube, other fans have been trying to put together a petition to get WB to release it. It's too bad, because my all time favourite Slappy episode, "Bully for Skippy", would have been on there.
I love Bully for Skippy. With Reef Blunt as head of the FCC. Animated her in America by Jon McClenahan and Startoons. Definitely one of the top five Slappys. And very pointed in its critique of watchdog groups and kids TV
ReplyDeleteHas WB ever thought of a movie where Yakko, Wakko, and Dot look for their lost parents? Just wondering...
ReplyDeleteNo, the Warners have not searched for their parents. I think their parents are animators.
ReplyDeleteWho are they?
ReplyDeleteThe backstory of the Warners shows how they were created. Of course, we created them. Their parents are mentioned/shown in a painting in Wakko's Wish.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, Yakko's first line in the first short produced (though it didn't appear until several episodes in) is a gag about their creation. "Pennsylvania! Our homeland! As cartoon characters, we were drawn, ergo Mom and Dad must have been pennsyls/pencils."
ReplyDeleteRon: Exactly! From "Draculee Dracula."
ReplyDeleteOh, now I remember! I just thought that the episode and the movie were not connected to each other...
ReplyDeletethey are not connected to each other...it's all a big mash-up.
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