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66-528: The cartoon opens with a faux Walter Winchell -like voice discussing the end of the Third Reich , saying that "Germany has been battered into a fare-thee-well", and musing about where the high leadership, and "Fatso" Göring in particular has gone. The scene soon cuts to the Black Forest , where Hermann Göring—in bemedalled lederhosen —is "soothing his jangled nerves" marching while on a hunt. Nearby,

132-444: A bad flooten-boy-glooten !", a variant on Warner Bros. cartoons' frequently-cited Lou Costello -type catchphrase: "I'm a bad boy!". Later, when the jig is up, Bugs rides in on a white horse, dressed as Brünhilde —from Wagnerian opera, to the tune of the "Pilgrims' Chorus" from Tannhäuser . Entranced, Göring responds by dressing up as Siegfried . The two dance and the music changes to Wiener Blut , before Bugs once again makes

198-453: A career, but when Winchell disparaged Paar in print, Paar fought back and mocked Winchell repeatedly on the air. Paar's criticisms effectively ended Winchell's career. The tables had turned, now TV had the power." Leon Schlesinger Leon Schlesinger ( / ˈ ʃ l ɛ s ɪ n dʒ ər / SHLESS -in-jər ; May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American film producer who founded Leon Schlesinger Productions , which later became

264-668: A dispute with ABC executives in 1955. He starred in The Walter Winchell File , a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New York Daily Mirror . In 1956, he signed with NBC to host a variety program called The Walter Winchell Show , which was canceled after only 13 weeks—a particularly bitter failure in view of

330-472: A few years later, and he moved in with Elizabeth June Magee, who had already adopted daughter Gloria and given birth to her and Winchell's first child Walda in 1927. Winchell eventually divorced Greene in 1928, but he never married Magee, although they lived together for the rest of their lives. Winchell and Magee had three children. Daughter Gloria died of pneumonia at the age of nine and Walda spent time in psychiatric hospitals . Walter Jr. died by suicide in

396-542: A flash to change into his Nazi uniform adorned with all sorts of medals. After the usual Nazi salute , Bugs berates him in faux German as he rips all of the medals off Göring's uniform (" Klooten-flooten-blooten-pooten-meirooten-tooten! "), quickly followed by his belt. Göring "kisses" in reverence, saying, "Look! I kiss mein Fuehrer's hand. I kiss right in Der Fuehrer's face!'". Afterwards, Göring exclaims "Oh, I’m

462-406: A fool of Göring and escapes. Eventually, Göring gets a hawk to capture Bugs. Bugs, standing next to Göring asks, "Do you think he'll catch me, doc?" to which Göring replies, "Do I think he'll catch you? Why, he'll have you back here before you can say Schicklgruber." ( Schicklgruber was the original surname of Hitler's father Alois.) Bugs runs off and jumps into his rabbit hole, but as he falls down

528-604: A furrow in the ground appears, with a hole at the end. Bugs pops out of the hole, and sees no sign of the Black Forest on his map (variants of this scene would be used in later cartoons as the lead-in to the joke that Bugs, while tunneling underground, did indeed turn wrong somewhere in New Mexico , usually by not taking a left turn at Albuquerque . This cartoon is the first time Bugs says the popular catchphrase: "I KNEW I shoulda made dat left toin at Albakoikie". The other

594-707: A major reason as well as the delicate health of his companion, June Magee. Exactly one year after his retirement, Magee died at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona , while undergoing treatment for a heart condition. Winchell spent his final two years as a recluse at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Winchell died at the age of 74, in Los Angeles. He is buried at Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery in Phoenix. Larry King , who replaced Winchell at

660-423: A plunger. A few chase gags go by in which Bugs insults the integrity of Göring's medals by bending one with his teeth. Suckered into bending one himself, Göring declares them ersatz and mumbles all sorts of anti-Hitler sentiments ("Oh, do I hate that Hitler swine, that phony fuehrer, that…"). Bugs masquerades as Adolf Hitler after smearing on some mud, and faces the surprised Göring. Göring disappears off-screen in

726-402: A secret". Herman Klurfeld, a ghostwriter for Winchell for almost three decades, began writing four newspaper columns per week for Winchell in 1936 and worked for him for 29 years. He also wrote many of the signature one-liners, called "lasties", that Mr. Winchell used at the end of his Sunday evening radio broadcasts. One of Klurfeld's quips was "She's been on more laps than a napkin". In 1952,

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792-435: A shift in power from print to television. Winchell had angered Paar several years earlier when he refused to retract an item alleging that Paar was having marital difficulties. Biographer Neal Gabler described the exchange on Paar's show in 1961: Hostess Elsa Maxwell appeared on the program and began gibing at Walter, accusing him of hypocrisy for waving the flag while never having voted [which, incidentally, wasn't true;

858-457: A similar vein, "new Garbo , trouser-crease-eraser", and "pash". Some Winchellisms for marriage are: "middle-aisle it", "altar it", "handcuffed", " Mendelssohn March ", " Lohengrin it", and "merged". "Paar's feud with newspaper columnist Walter Winchell marked a major turning point in American media power. No one had ever dared criticize Winchell because a few lines in his column could destroy

924-564: A son of a bitch." By the mid-1950s, he was widely seen as arrogant, cruel, and ruthless. While on an American tour in 1951, Josephine Baker , who would never perform before segregated audiences, criticized the Stork Club 's unwritten policy of discouraging black patrons, then scolded Winchell, an old ally, for not rising to her defense. Winchell responded swiftly with a series of harsh public rebukes, including accusations of Communist sympathies. He spurned any attempts by friends to mitigate

990-595: A sudden a rabbit showed up and took all the decorations off, and stuff like that. And we didn't care for that." As with many of the World War II –themed cartoons put out by the major studios, Herr Meets Hare was withdrawn from broadcast or video distribution by Warner Bros. and other rights-holders (including Turner Broadcasting and AOL Time Warner ). In 2001, Cartoon Network had planned on showing each and every Bugs Bunny cartoon made so far as part of its yearly "June Bugs" festival. AOL Time Warner refused to allow

1056-458: Is Bugs asks Göring about the directions to Las Vegas , oblivious to his location. Göring is almost tricked into going to Las Vegas, but then quickly realizes, "Las Veegas? Why, there is no Las Veegas in Germany!" before he fires his musket at Bugs. Genuinely alarmed by his mistaken destination, Bugs hightails it. Göring chases after the rabbit, trying to suck Bugs out of his hole with his musket as

1122-482: Is a repetition of a scene from Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips , in which Bugs dresses up as a Japanese general. Daniel Goldmark cites the cartoon as a significant precursor to What's Opera, Doc? (1957) and a source for its visual imagery. After running off, Bugs re-enters the scene dressed as Brünnhilde . The costume includes a blonde wig with braids and a Viking-style helmet. Bugs rides on a white horse, visually based on

1188-560: Is about a ruthless journalist, J.J. Hunsecker, and is generally thought to be a thinly veiled commentary on the power wielded by Winchell at the height of his influence. It was made into the film Sweet Smell of Success (1957), with the screenplay written by Lehman and Clifford Odets . Walter Winchell is credited for coining the word " frienemy " in an article published by the Nevada State Journal on 19 May 1953. Winchell's colorful and widely imitated language inspired

1254-737: The Looney Tunes out to brother-in-law Ray Katz for tax breaks. Schlesinger was also known among his animators for his lisp . One oft-repeated story states that Mel Blanc patterned the voices of both Daffy Duck and Sylvester the Cat on Schlesinger. However, in Mel Blanc's autobiography, That's Not All Folks! , he contradicts that conventional belief, writing "It seemed to me that such an extended mandible would hinder his speech, particularly on words containing an s sound. Thus 'despicable' became 'des th picable'." Daffy's slobbery, exaggerated lisp

1320-522: The Miami Herald , recalled: He was so sad. You know what Winchell was doing at the end? Typing out mimeographed sheets with his column, handing them out on the corner. That's how sad he got. When he died, only one person came to his funeral: his daughter. Several of Winchell's former co-workers had expressed a willingness to go but were turned back by his daughter Walda. Even during Winchell's lifetime, journalists were critical of his effect on

1386-619: The New York Evening Graphic , and Louella Parsons in Los Angeles. He wrote in a style filled with slang and incomplete sentences. Winchell's casual writing style famously earned him the ire of mobster Dutch Schultz , who confronted him at New York's Cotton Club and publicly lambasted him for using the phrase "pushover" to describe Schultz's penchant for blonde women. Winchell's best known aphorisms include: "Nothing recedes like success" and "I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it

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1452-538: The New York Post revealed Mr. Klurfeld as Mr. Winchell's ghostwriter. Klurfeld later wrote a biography of Winchell entitled Winchell, His Life and Times , which was the basis for the television film Winchell (1998). Winchell opened his radio broadcasts by pressing randomly on a telegraph key , a sound that created a sense of urgency and importance, and using the catchphrase "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all

1518-547: The Clydesdale horse . Musically, the scene is accompanied by the "Pilgrim's Chorus" from the Tannhäuser (1845). In response, Hermann Göring changes clothes. His lederhosen is replaced by a long brown loincloth. He wears a horned-type Viking helmet. The horns grow in size as if erect, as he lustfully gazes at "Brünnhilde". The duo dances to the tune of two waltzes by Johann Strauss II : "Vienna Life" and "You and You",

1584-628: The Jergens Journal . By the 1930s, Winchell was "an intimate friend of Owney Madden , New York's no. 1 gang leader of the prohibition era," but in 1932 Winchell's intimacy with criminals caused him to fear he would be murdered. He fled to California and "returned weeks later with a new enthusiasm for law, G-men , Uncle Sam , [and] Old Glory ". His coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping and subsequent trial received national attention. Within two years, he befriended J. Edgar Hoover . He

1650-737: The New Deal throughout the Depression era , and frequently served as the Roosevelt Administration's mouthpiece in favor of interventionism as the European war crisis loomed in the late 1930s. Early on, he denounced American isolationists as favoring appeasement of Hitler, and was explicit in his attacks on such prominent isolationists as Charles Lindbergh , whom he dubbed "The Lone Ostrich", and Gerald L.K. Smith , whom he denounced as "Gerald Lucifer KKKodfish Smith". Throughout

1716-554: The Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco manufactured by the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company. The Lobby cards credits Leon Schlesinger as the producer of the short, however the cartoon itself credits Warner Bros. Cartoons rather than crediting Schlesinger. This could imply the short entered production prior to Schlesinger's departure from the studio. Bugs dresses as Hitler to assert control over his German opponent. This

1782-592: The Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation . He was a distant relative of the Warner Brothers. As head of his own studio, Schlesinger served as the producer of Warner's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1930, when Schlesinger assumed production from his subcontractors, Harman and Ising , to 1944, when Warner acquired the studio. Leon Schlesinger

1848-780: The 1930s and 1940s, Winchell was also an outspoken supporter of civil rights for African Americans, and frequently attacked the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups as supporting un-American, pro-German goals. During World War II, he attacked the National Maritime Union , the labor organization for the civilian United States Merchant Marine , which he said was run by Communists, instancing West Coast labor leader Harry Bridges . In 1948 and 1949, he and influential columnist Drew Pearson attacked Secretary of Defense James Forrestal in columns and radio broadcasts. Subsequently, Winchell began to denounce Communism as

1914-444: The 1930s with Hearst newspaper chain syndication and a popular radio program. He was known for an innovative style of gossipy staccato news briefs, jokes , and Jazz Age slang. Biographer Neal Gabler claimed that his popularity and influence "turned journalism into a form of entertainment". He uncovered both hard news and embarrassing stories about famous people by exploiting his exceptionally wide circle of contacts, first in

1980-654: The Damon Runyon Cancer Memorial Fund, since renamed the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation . He led the charity with the support of celebrities, including Marlene Dietrich , Bob Hope , Milton Berle , Marilyn Monroe , and Joe DiMaggio , until his death from cancer in 1972. In 1950, Ernest Lehman , a former publicity writer for Irving Hoffman of The Hollywood Reporter , wrote a story for Cosmopolitan titled "Tell Me About It Tomorrow". The piece

2046-578: The Warner Bros. Sunset Boulevard lot at the corner of Van Ness and Fernwood. He wooed animators away from other studios, including some of those who had once worked for Harman and Ising. One of these was Friz Freleng , whom Schlesinger promoted to oversee production of Looney Tunes and to develop the sister series, Merrie Melodies . Former Harman-Ising animator Bob Clampett was also hired. Schlesinger's recruiting of Robert McKimson , Tex Avery , Chuck Jones , and Frank Tashlin further increased

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2112-464: The appeasers of Nazism , then in the 1950s he aligned with Joseph McCarthy in his campaign against communists . He damaged the reputation of Josephine Baker as well as other individuals who had earned his enmity. He returned to television in 1959 as the narrator of the 1930s-set crime drama series The Untouchables . Over the years he appeared in more than two dozen films and television productions as an actor, sometimes playing himself. Winchell

2178-430: The bag and is shocked ("Ach!! Himmel!"). Göring goes and looks inside the bag as well, to be shocked as well (again, "Ach!! Himmel!"). Out of the bag comes Bugs dressed as Joseph Stalin —complete with an enormous pipe and a large moustache—staring back at them. As the cartoon ends, Bugs glances back at the camera and asks, in a Russian accent : "Does your tobacco taste different lately?", citing an ad slogan of that era for

2244-514: The big scenes like cattle herds and Indian attacks were taken straight from the original Maynard films. So I had to dress up to look like Ken Maynard because a lot of the old footage they inserted had shots of Maynard in the distance. I really hated that." (A few years later, Warners remade these budget Westerns with singing cowboy Dick Foran .) Schlesinger was a shrewd businessman with a keen eye for talent. When Harman and Ising left Warner Bros. with Bosko in 1933, Schlesinger set up his own studio on

2310-458: The broadcast of Herr Meets Hare , on the grounds that the cartoon was offensive (by today's standards) as it dealt with the Nazis in a joking manner. The cartoon saw limited broadcast on a special one-hour episode of ToonHeads about cartoons from World War II. It has also appeared on Turner Classic Movies ' Cartoon Alley as recently as January 20, 2007. In 2008, it was released to DVD on

2376-469: The entertainment world and the Prohibition era underworld, then in law enforcement and politics. He was known for trading gossip, sometimes in return for his silence. His outspoken style made him both feared and admired. Novels and movies were based on his wisecracking gossip columnist persona, as early as the play and film Blessed Event in 1932. As World War II approached in the 1930s, he attacked

2442-582: The family garage on Christmas night of 1968. Having spent the previous two years on welfare, Walter Jr. had last been employed as a dishwasher in Santa Ana, California ; for a time, he wrote a column in the Los Angeles Free Press , an underground newspaper published from 1964 to 1978. In the 1960s, Winchell wrote some columns for the film magazine Photoplay . He announced his retirement on February 5, 1969, citing his son's suicide as

2508-514: The first syndicated gossip column, entitled On-Broadway . The column was syndicated by King Features Syndicate . He made his radio debut over WABC in New York, a CBS affiliate, on May 12, 1930. The show, titled Saks on Broadway , was a 15-minute feature that provided business news about Broadway. He switched to WJZ (later renamed WABC ) and the NBC Blue (later ABC Radio ) in 1932 for

2574-426: The heated rhetoric. The ensuing publicity resulted in the termination of Baker's work visa, forcing her to cancel all her engagements and return to France. It was almost a decade before U.S. officials allowed her back into the country. The adverse publicity of this, and similar incidents, undercut his credibility and power. In his radio and television broadcasts on April 4, 1954, Winchell helped to stoke public fear of

2640-450: The hole, the hawk, which imitates Jimmy Durante , catches Bugs in a bag, capturing him. Göring brings the bag to Hitler, who plays solitaire in front of a map depicting the decline of Fortress Europe . Göring identifies the captive in the bag as "Bugsenheimer Bunny" (as opposed to "Weisenheimer", or "wise guy") to Der Fuehrer . As Herr Hitler talks of the great rewards he is going to pile upon Göring for this act of heroism, he peeks inside

2706-616: The latter originating in Die Fledermaus (1874). The entry of Bugs and his white horse into the scene is repeated in What's Opera, Doc? . The dance with the male suitor is, however, changed from a slapstick -rendition of the waltz to a refined ballet . The motivation of the dancers also changes. Göring is "lost in the moment" and follows his partner's lead. In the latter, the dance is part of an artistic performance. Both cartoons were written by Michael Maltese , which may account for

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2772-471: The main threat facing America. During the 1950s, Winchell supported Senator Joseph McCarthy 's quest to identify Communists in the entertainment industry. His weekly radio broadcast was broadcast on ABC television on the same day. His program debuted on TV on October 5, 1952. Sponsored by Gruen Watch Company, it originated from WJZ-TV from 6:45 to 7 p.m. ET. By 1953, his radio and television broadcasts were simulcast until he ended that association because of

2838-562: The media. In 1940, St. Clair McKelway , who had earlier written a series of articles about him in The New Yorker , wrote in Time : the effect of Winchellism on the standards of the press... When Winchell began gossiping in 1924 for the late scatological tabloid Evening Graphic , no U.S. paper hawked rumors about the marital relations of public figures until they turned up in divorce courts. For 16 years, gossip columns spread until even

2904-480: The point that he could not effectively respond. The New York Daily Mirror , his flagship newspaper for 34 years, closed in 1963; his readership dropped steadily, and he faded from the public eye. Winchell became known for his attempts to destroy the careers of his political and personal enemies as his own career progressed, especially after World War II. Favorite tactics were allegations of having ties to Communist organizations and accusations of sexual impropriety. He

2970-638: The polio vaccine, immediately responded that the vaccine, which had been recently tested on 7,500 school children at the University of Pittsburgh, had been triple tested for the absence of live virus by its manufacturers, the National Institutes of Health, and in his own research lab, and that similar testing would continue to screen out future batches containing live virus. Many other columnists began to write gossip soon after Winchell's initial success, such as Ed Sullivan , who succeeded him at

3036-586: The polio vaccine. Winchell said, "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America ... and all the ships at sea. Attention everyone. In a few moments I will report on a new polio vaccine claimed to be a polio cure. It may be a killer." Winchell claimed that the U.S. Public Health Services found live polio viruses in seven of ten vaccine batches it tested, reporting, "It killed several monkeys ... the United States Public Health Service will confirm this in about 10 days." Dr. Jonas Salk , developer of

3102-482: The quality of the studio's output. He later added Carl Stalling and Mel Blanc , and collectively these men created such famous characters as Porky Pig , Daffy Duck , and Bugs Bunny . Schlesinger largely took a "hands off" approach to the animation unit, allowing his directors freedom to create what they wished, provided that the resulting films were successful. Schlesinger sold Pacific Title & Art Studio in 1935 to concentrate on his animation studio. Schlesinger

3168-600: The rank of lieutenant commander . Winchell began his career in journalism by posting notes about his acting troupe on backstage bulletin boards. He joined the Vaudeville News in 1920, then left the paper for the Evening Graphic in 1924, where his column was named Mainly About Mainstreeters . He was hired on June 10, 1929, by the New York Daily Mirror , where he became the author of

3234-403: The set Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 . Walter Winchell Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville performer, Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for New York tabloids . He rose to national celebrity in

3300-545: The ships at sea. Let's go to press." He would then read each of his stories with a staccato delivery (up to a rate of 197 words per minute, though he claimed a speed of well over 200 words per minute in an interview in 1967), noticeably faster than the typical pace of American speech. His diction can also be heard in his breathless narration of the television series The Untouchables (1959–1963), as well as in several Hollywood films. On August 11, 1919, Winchell married Rita Greene, one of his onstage partners. The couple separated

3366-506: The show later issued a retraction]. Paar joined in. He said Walter's column was "written by a fly" and that his voice was so high because he wears "too-tight underwear" … [H]e also told the story of the mistaken item about his marriage, and cracked that Walter had a "hole in his soul". On subsequent programs, Paar called Winchell a "silly old man" and cited other examples of his underhanded tactics. No one had previously dared to criticize Winchell publicly, but by then his influence had eroded to

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3432-528: The similarities. In the older short, the musical references were intended as a criticism of Germany, Richard Wagner serving as "a suitable musical backdrop". The second short makes Wagner and opera itself its targets. Like other American animated cartoons, Herr Meets Hare was available to German prisoners of war in the United States , some of whom did not like it; Hans Goebler said: "You saw Hermann Göring standing there full of decorations, then all of

3498-478: The staid New York Times whispered that it heard from friends of a son of the President that he was going to be divorced. In its first year, The Graphic would have considered this news not fit to print... Gossip-writing is at present like a spirochete in the body of journalism... Newspapers... have never been held in less esteem by their readers or exercised less influence on the political and ethical thought of

3564-497: The star. In 1932 and 1933 Leon Schlesinger produced six B-movie Westerns for Warners starring John Wayne . Schlesinger spent under $ 30,000 each because he did not need elaborate action sequences. Instead, he used silent action footage of cowboy star Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan. “I later thought Leon’s cartoons were better than the horse operas he put me in,” Wayne recalled in later years. “Those westerns I made at Warner Bros. were remakes of old Ken Maynard films, and all

3630-463: The stuttering Porky is unable to pronounce "Mr. Schlesinger," eventually giving up and addressing him as "Leon". As with other Warner cartoon staffers, Schlesinger appeared in caricature form in such cartoons as Hollywood Steps Out , Russian Rhapsody and Nutty News . Schlesinger remained head of the animation studio until 1944 when he sold his assets to Warner Bros. Eddie Selzer assumed Schlesinger's position as producer. He continued to market

3696-405: The success of his longtime rival Ed Sullivan in a similar format with The Ed Sullivan Show . ABC re-hired him in 1959 to narrate The Untouchables for four seasons. In 1960, a revival of the 1955 television simulcast of Winchell's radio broadcast was cancelled after six weeks. In the early 1960s, a public dispute with Jack Paar effectively ended Winchell's career—already in decline due to

3762-468: The term "Winchellism." An etymologist of his day said, "Winchell has achieved the position of dictator of contemporary slang." His use of slang, innuendo and invented euphemisms also protected him from libel accusations. Winchell invented his own phrases that were viewed as slightly racy at the time. Some of the expressions for falling in love used by Winchell were: "pashing it", "sizzle for", "that way", "go for each other", "garbo-ing it", "uh-huh"; and in

3828-450: The times. Winchell responded to McKelway saying, "Oh stop! You talk like a high-school student of journalism." Despite the controversy surrounding Winchell, his popularity allowed him to leverage support for causes that he valued. In 1946, following the death from cancer of his close friend and fellow writer Damon Runyon , Winchell appealed to his radio audience for contributions to fight the disease. The response led Winchell to establish

3894-624: Was being mentioned in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart 's 1937 song " The Lady Is a Tramp ": "I follow Winchell and read every line." Winchell was Jewish and was one of the first commentators in America to attack Adolf Hitler and American pro- fascist and pro-Nazi organizations such as the German-American Bund , especially its leader Fritz Julius Kuhn . He was a staunch supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and

3960-562: Was born in New York City , the son of Jennie (Bakst) and Jacob Winchell, a cantor and salesman; they were Russian Jewish immigrants. He left school in the sixth grade and started performing in Gus Edwards 's vaudeville troupe known as the "Newsboys Sextet", which also featured Eddie Cantor and George Jessel . During this time, Winchell performed as a tap dancer. Winchell served in the U.S. Navy during World War I , reaching

4026-603: Was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , on May 20, 1884. on June 9, 1909, Schlesinger married Bernice K. Schlesinger ( née Leona Katz, September 15, 1882 – May 8, 1966). After Schlesinger worked at a theatre as an usher, songbook agent, actor, and manager (including the Palace Theatre in Buffalo, New York ), he founded Pacific Title & Art Studio in 1919, where most of his business

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4092-512: Was developed over time. Leon Schlesinger appeared as himself in Freleng's short You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940), one that combines live action with animation. In this short, Mel Blanc voices Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and all other characters (including the live human studio security guard), except Schlesinger, who dubbed his voice because the studio did not have a sound camera. In the film

4158-588: Was known for his hard-nosed business practices. His animators worked in a dilapidated studio (Avery's people were briefly assigned to a bungalow they dubbed " Termite Terrace "), and Schlesinger briefly shut down the studio in mid-1941 when unionized employees demanded a pay raise. On another occasion, he boycotted the Academy Awards for what he claimed was preferential treatment for the Walt Disney Cartoon Studio . He also farmed some of

4224-665: Was not above name-calling; for example, he described New York radio host Barry Gray as "Borey Pink" and a "disk jerk". Winchell heard that Marlen Edwin Pew of the trade journal Editor & Publisher had criticized him as a bad influence on calling him "Marlen Pee-you". For most of his career, his contracts with newspaper and radio employers required them to hold him harmless from any damages resulting from lawsuits for slander or libel . He unapologetically would publish material told to him in confidence by friends; when confronted over such betrayals, he typically responded, "I know—I'm just

4290-540: Was producing title cards for silent films . As talking pictures (" talkies ") replaced them in 1929 and 1930, Schlesinger looked for ways to capitalise on the new technology and stay in business. Some film historians , like Tom Sito , claim that he helped finance the Warner Brothers' first talkie, The Jazz Singer (1927). He then secured a contract with the studio to produce its brand-new Looney Tunes series, and he signed animators Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to create these cartoons with their Bosko character as

4356-475: Was responsible for turning Louis "Lepke" Buchalter of Murder, Inc. over to Hoover. His newspaper column was syndicated in a wide array of newspapers worldwide, and he was read by millions, every day from the 1920s until the early 1960s. His Sunday night radio broadcast was heard by another 20 million people from 1930 to the late 1950s. In 1948, Winchell had the top-rated radio show when he surpassed Fred Allen and Jack Benny . One indicator of his popularity

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