tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post1348811498774158087..comments2024-03-06T00:01:06.897-08:00Comments on Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 12. Bosko's Holiday (1931)Steven Hartleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-44605282154474553452018-07-24T22:42:02.380-07:002018-07-24T22:42:02.380-07:00I tend to like the characters of Bosko and Honey w...I tend to like the characters of Bosko and Honey when actual children are voicing the characters, and we, thus, establish the fact that Bosko and Honey are children--something that I wish were so in the MGM age, because I liked the Bosko voice used for the famed "trilogy" of cartoons that ended his MGM run. I like the gag content of this cartoon, despite the "reused" animation, so many ideas going on, and the inanimate objects displaying characteristics all their own is something that would appear throughout LOONEY TUNES and MERRIE MELODIES history, on up through the decades where the classic characters were well fleshed out. Just Check out Chuck Jones' "HIGH NOTE" or, earlier on, Bob Clampett's "GOOFY GROCERIES". Some of these would neatly mirror the elaborate production numbers of Busby Berkeley proportions. It is more of this aspect of Harman/Ising cartoons that I wished was brought to MGM along with the Bosko character, although I could never stop watching any of the later MGM cartoons because they were visual spectacles, even at their wildest ("CIRCUS DAZE").Kevin Wollenweberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08458065257912587522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-55375204127964935102011-08-16T14:57:39.746-07:002011-08-16T14:57:39.746-07:00Yowp: It's kind of sad to hear about Johnny Mu...Yowp: It's kind of sad to hear about Johnny Murray dying at a young age, and yet I'd like to thank you on the research. I read on Internet Movie Database that Hudson was born in 1916.<br /><br />ramapith: Thanks for revealing something I've never even heard of. This is VERY interesting. It's amazing to see that someone knows this, and you are right that Hudson has a stronger voice, and that there was a younger girl who voices Honey childlike. Thanks for the great sources!Steven Hartleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-44305721663280621952011-08-16T14:50:21.737-07:002011-08-16T14:50:21.737-07:00Quick point: we're not hearing Rochelle Hudson...Quick point: we're not hearing Rochelle Hudson as Honey in this cartoon. Hudson's Honey at least comes across as a fairly professional voicing job; here Honey is rather poorly spoken and almost sounds like an infant.<br /><br />In the 1990s, Rudy Ising told me that a younger, preteen girl was brought in to voice Honey in this one cartoon. He didn't recollect any more details (...at least not that he told to me!).ramapithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751343744514656549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-49360008245785116502011-08-16T06:20:48.430-07:002011-08-16T06:20:48.430-07:00Just an addendum: it appears she did fudge her age...Just an addendum: it appears she <em>did</em> fudge her age in the 1930 article I read. The 1920 Oklahoma census record shows her age as three years, 10 months. The census was taken between January and February, so that means she'd be born around March or April 1916. Death records confirm she was born in March 1916.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-27318564412556779812011-08-16T05:35:33.361-07:002011-08-16T05:35:33.361-07:00Johnny Murray was Richard Barthelmess' singing...Johnny Murray was Richard Barthelmess' singing double. For example, he can heard singing in the mess hall scene of the Barthelmess movie 'The Dawn Patrol' (1930). Read more about Murray as Barthelmess here (click on "show more"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6yBkjePizE<br /><br />Murray was in the Max Fischer and Gus Arnheim orchestras in the '30s and died August 31, 1956 in Los Angeles of leukaemia, age 52. He had been doing a talk show on KFI at the time of his death.<br /><br />Unless she fudged her age to make herself older (and in Hollywood, it's usually the other way around), Hudson was 17 at the end of 1930. She went into movies because she was legally too young for stage work in her home town of Claremore, Oklahoma. The little syndicated newspaper biography doesn't mention anything about cartoons.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-8367908168165410032011-08-16T05:34:30.395-07:002011-08-16T05:34:30.395-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.com