tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post4432782187698593695..comments2024-03-06T00:01:06.897-08:00Comments on Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 131. Let it Be Me (1936)Steven Hartleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-17155269348064208472012-03-19T08:53:47.920-07:002012-03-19T08:53:47.920-07:00Very interesting stories. I heard when Crosby spok...Very interesting stories. I heard when Crosby spoke to Frank Tashlin in the '50s about how he hated being caricatured in "Swooner Crooner" and Frank laughed "Not only did I design it but I animated it".Steven Hartleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-26322301936951090412012-03-19T01:08:35.021-07:002012-03-19T01:08:35.021-07:00Apparently Bing Crosby sued over both "Bingo ...Apparently Bing Crosby sued over both "Bingo Crosbyana" and this one. Understandable I think since both cartoons portray him as a serial seducer while he had been married since 1930 to his first wife Dixie Lee. How happy the marriage really was is at best questionable - at the time of her death Dixie Lee was an alcoholic.Brent McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883838112004433045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-30306249914441434932012-03-18T12:16:34.441-07:002012-03-18T12:16:34.441-07:00Although animation books cite "Bingo Crosbyan...Although animation books cite "Bingo Crosbyana" as the cartoon that got Bing's dander up and let to a letter to the Schlesinger studio from his lawyers, this one's actually rougher on him -- he's a coward in the other picture, but here its inferred he had the nightclub staff toss Emily out in the cold to freeze to death. Crosby fared much better in the cartoons from the studio's other units, before and after these two were made.<br /><br />(Aside from his axe to grind with ladies' man der Bingle -- a trait we'd see from Friz 20-plus years later with Elvis -- Freleng also apparently wasn't too fond of the also very self-confident 1930s St. Louis Cardinals "Gas House Gang" baseball team. They'd get theirs twice from Friz, in "Boulevardier from the Bronx" and a decade later in "Baseball Bugs".)J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-62537611290162441302012-03-18T10:41:39.669-07:002012-03-18T10:41:39.669-07:00Ironically, Freleng and the real Bing would team u...Ironically, Freleng and the real Bing would team up in 1969 for DePatie-Freleng's Three Bears special with Bing's daughter by that time Mary Frances "I Shot J.R.on Dallas" Crosby, with Paul Winchell as the grumpy Mr.Bobcat. Of course bing became a longtime institution by then..[Papa Bear as Jones directed him the in the 1940s would be what Bing's rival Sinatra would be fabled for being, in addition to being the nect crooner-tough 'n' rough.] Bernice Hansen not only voices Emily but all chicks [all sounding like SHirley Temple.]Steve C., CaliforniaPokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.com