tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post1406901593829603661..comments2024-03-06T00:01:06.897-08:00Comments on Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 149. The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (1936)Steven Hartleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-88733039680131708382012-04-15T18:54:11.366-07:002012-04-15T18:54:11.366-07:00Steven H., Besides "Our Old Man", the Di...Steven H., Besides "Our Old Man", the Dionne Quntipulets are also mixing that song in with "What's the Matter with Father", by Egbert Van Alstyne, as "What's the Matter with Robert", so it's a medley. Yes, Tashlin used this as a basis for "The Woods Are Full Of Cuckoos", in 1937, a year later, and the Bernie persona is also used in Fris's "Toytown Hall". Yowsah.Berniece Hansell does an escellent job as all of the Quints, by the way. <br /><br /><br />Yowp, as you clarly know, John Barrymore would infleunce some of the iconic stage chaarcter, of cours,e of both Hans Conried and John Carradine. Gazooks!<br /><br />Steve C.Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-30851151670830080482012-04-13T03:45:39.164-07:002012-04-13T03:45:39.164-07:00Actually, the first name on her death certificate ...Actually, the first name on her death certificate is "Berneice." That's how the UP newspaper clipping spelled it and she's listed in L.A City Directories that way, too (her phone number was HO7 4373).<br /><br />I like how the rooster crow from "Boulevardier From the Bronx" is put in Kate Hepburn here. It still sounds more like a pig than a horse or a rooster.<br /><br />I didn't realise Schwartz was at Warners; I thought he was strictly at Disney in the 30s. But the backgrounds here are different than the Jay/Loomer ones we're used to seeing.<br /><br />Barrymore was known as "The Great Profile." So that's why the gag is he's shown only in profile.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-37423372068574479442012-04-13T00:27:57.817-07:002012-04-13T00:27:57.817-07:00Actually by the time this short was released the D...Actually by the time this short was released the Dionne Quintuplets had made the first of three Hollywood movies they would eventually make, "The Country Doctor". It was released in mid-1936, and basically dramatized the story of their birth and babyhood. The parts with the quintuplets was shot at the special facility built for them in Callendar Ontario. The Dionnes were wards of the Province of Ontario and didn't travel much outside of their facility - known as "Quintland" - with an enclosed gallery around their outdoor playground where tourists could come and watch them play. They were the biggest tourist attraction in Ontario from 1935 to 1939 when the war restricted tourism. Their images were also used for advertising, with all of the money from movies, tourism and advertising going into a fund for the sisters, although what they eventually received was a fraction of what they actually earned. Their parents didn't regain custody of the sisters until 1943Brent McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883838112004433045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-67765789216588634252012-04-12T16:39:06.096-07:002012-04-12T16:39:06.096-07:00I think we'll all have to get used to it.
&qu...I think we'll all have to get used to it.<br /><br />"Do you suppose that they only animated one of them and then copied four more from the original drawings to get the exact movement?"<br /><br />That's exactly what they did, actually.Devon Baxterhttp://www.youtube.com/baxterfilmsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-81958461401861612902012-04-12T15:27:06.133-07:002012-04-12T15:27:06.133-07:00Thanks - corrected that. I'm not quite used t...Thanks - corrected that. I'm not quite used to the name that is confirmed as "Hansell" not Hanson so give me a bit of time for me to write her down correctly as Ineed to be used to it.Steven Hartleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-18148030628298381532012-04-12T15:21:41.501-07:002012-04-12T15:21:41.501-07:00You called Bernice Hansell "Bernice Hansen&qu...You called Bernice Hansell "Bernice Hansen" like in the beginning.mynameiskhanniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05892517473338943541noreply@blogger.com