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?

17 comments:

  1. From upper left corner:
    Harpo 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...

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  2. Nicely done.
    Beside the four you listed as unknown, there are two others that are misidentified.

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  3. 1.

    Harpo 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

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  4. Wbwolf and Trudyscousin: you are both correct regarding the 2nd and 3rd challenges.

    As for the roll call-- challenge #1: Trudyscousin, you correctly identified 14 out of 21 caricatures.

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  5. I'm a bit late to comment on this, but I can't help it. These are awesome Hirschfeld caricatures.

    Arthur "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.

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  6. Nicely done
    I 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

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  7. 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.

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  8. Hey Tom,

    I 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.

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  9. 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

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  10. Has WB ever thought of a movie where Yakko, Wakko, and Dot look for their lost parents? Just wondering...

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  11. No, the Warners have not searched for their parents. I think their parents are animators.

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  12. The 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.

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  13. And 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."

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  14. Ron: Exactly! From "Draculee Dracula."

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  15. Oh, now I remember! I just thought that the episode and the movie were not connected to each other...

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  16. they are not connected to each other...it's all a big mash-up.

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