In 2. 00. 3, he was named by TV Guide as the best cartoon character of all time. Bugs starred in 1. Golden Age of American animation, and made cameos in three others along with a few appearances in non- animated films. According to Mel Blanc, the character's original voice actor, Bugs Bunny has a Flatbush accent, an equal blend of the Bronx and Brooklyn dialects (of the New York Accent). Pat Flaherty (March 8, 1897 – December 2, 1970) was an American film actor who appeared in about 200 movies. The 1948 crime drama Noose - also known as The Silk Noose - starring Carole Landis, Derek Farr, Joseph Calleia, and Ruth Nixon (This movie is public domain. This is the entrance to New York City’s ghost airport: Floyd Bennett Field. Before LaGuardia and JFK, Floyd Bennett Field was New York City’s first airport, at a. Sara Allgood, Actress: How Green Was My Valley. Dublin-born Sara Allgood started her acting career in her native country with the famed Abbey Theatre. His catchphrase is a casual . His other popular phrases include . Co- directed by Ben Hardaway and an uncredited Cal Dalton (who was responsible for the initial design of the rabbit), this short had a theme almost identical to that of the 1. Porky's Duck Hunt (directed by Tex Avery), which had introduced Daffy Duck. Porky Pig was again cast as a hunter tracking another silly prey who seemed less interested in escape than in driving his pursuer insane; this short replaced the black duck with a small white rabbit. The rabbit introduces himself with the odd expression . This cartoon also features the famous Groucho Marx line that Bugs would use many times: . Two dogs, fleeing the local dogcatcher, enter his absent master's house. The rabbit harasses them, but is ultimately bested by the bigger of the two dogs. A look back at when Nazis lived on Long Island — and ran a brutal indoctrination camp plagued by sexual assault.This short, the first where he was depicted as a gray bunny instead of a white one, is also notable both for the rabbit's first singing role. Charlie Thorson, lead animator on the short, was the first to give the character a name. In promotional material for the short (such as a surviving 1. This rabbit has more of a physical resemblance to the present- day Bugs, being taller and having a more similar face. The voice for this rabbit, however, was not similar to the well- known Brooklyn- Bronx accent, but spoke in a rural drawl. This early version of Elmer is also quite different from the present- day one, being much fatter and taller, although the voice, done by Arthur Q. In Robert Clampett's 1. Patient Porky, a similar rabbit appears to trick the audience into thinking that 7. Ironically, the only time the name . In the cartoon Hare- um Scare- um, the newspaper headline reads, . It was in this cartoon that he first emerged from his rabbit hole to ask Elmer Fudd, now a hunter rather than a photographer, . It is also the first cartoon where Mel Blanc uses a recognizable version of the voice of Bugs that would eventually become the standard. However, the rabbit here is absolutely identical to the one in Jones' earlier Elmer's Candid Camera, both visually and vocally. It was also the first short where he received billing under his now- famous name, but the card, . He would soon become the most prominent of the Looney Tunes characters as his calm, flippant insouciance endeared him to American audiences during and after World War II. Wabbit Twouble was also the first of five Bugs shorts to feature a chubbier remodel of Elmer Fudd, a short- lived attempt to have Fudd more closely resemble his voice actor, comedian Arthur Q. Bugs' 1. 94. 2 shorts included Friz Freleng's The Wabbit Who Came to Supper, and the Robert Clampett shorts The Wacky Wabbit and Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (which introduced Beaky Buzzard). Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid also marks a slight redesign of Bugs, making his front teeth less prominent and his head rounder. The man responsible for this redesign was Robert Mc. Kimson, at the time working as an animator under Robert Clampett. The redesign at first was only used in the shorts created by Clampett's production team but in time, it would be adopted by the other directors, with Freleng and Frank Tashlin the first to adopt this design. Upon his own promotion to director, Mc. Kimson created yet another version with more slanted eyes, longer teeth and a much larger mouth, which he (and, for the one Bugs Bunny cartoon he directed, Art Davis) used until 1. Clampett. Jones would come up with his own slight modification, and the voice as well would vary mildly between the units. He also made cameo appearances in Tex Avery's final Warner Bros. By that time, Warner Bros. Like other cartoon studios, such as Disney and Famous Studios had been doing, Warners put Bugs in opposition to the period's biggest enemies: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and the Japanese. The 1. 94. 4 short Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips features Bugs at odds with a group of Japanese soldiers. This cartoon has since been pulled from distribution due to its racial stereotypes. While he did make a cameo appearance in the 1. Porky and Daffy cartoon Porky Pig's Feat marking his only appearance in a black- and- white Looney Tune cartoon, he did not star in a cartoon in the Looney Tunes series until that series made its complete conversion to only color cartoons beginning with 1. Buckaroo Bugs was Bugs' first cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, and was also the last WB cartoon to credit Leon Schlesinger. The 1. 94. 4 short Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears introduced Jones' The Three Bears characters. As a result, the United States Marine Corps made Bugs an honorary Marine Master Sergeant. Some notable trainees included Clark Gable and Charles Bronson. Bugs also served as the mascot for 5. Squadron of the 3. Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force, USAF, which was attached to the Royal Australian Air Force and operated out of Australia's Northern Territory from 1. B- 2. 4 Liberator bombers. In this cameo (animated by Robert Mc. Kimson, with Mel Blanc providing the voice), Bugs pops out of a rabbit hole, saying his usual catchphrase; Bugs then says, . He also appeared fleetingly in the 1. Arthur Davis cartoon The Goofy Gophers. The inner pinkish parts of the ears have been reduced becoming more v- shaped at the top end and the ovalness of the eyes also replaced with a more top v shaped look. His cheeks protrude out more, and body is more compacted, when compared how he was drawn in the 1. He was directed by Friz Freleng, Robert Mc. Kimson, Arthur Davis and Chuck Jones and appeared in feature films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which featured the first- ever meeting between Bugs and his box- office rival Mickey Mouse), Space Jam (which co- starred Michael Jordan), and the 2. Looney Tunes: Back in Action. The Bugs Bunny short Knighty Knight Bugs (1. Bugs Bunny traded blows with Yosemite Sam and his fire- breathing dragon (which has a cold), won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons of 1. Three of Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny shorts- -Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck, Rabbit, Duck!- -- comprise what is often referred to as the . Jones' 1. 95. 7 classic, What's Opera, Doc?, features Bugs and Elmer parodying Wagner's. Der Ring des Nibelungen, and has been deemed . It was the first cartoon short to receive this honor. That incident caused some TV stations, and in the 1. TNT, to edit out the dangerous act, fearing that young kids might try to imitate it. The show was originally aired in prime- time. After two seasons, it was moved to reruns on Saturday mornings. The Bugs Bunny Show changed format and exact title frequently (the packaging was completely different, with each short simply presented on its own, title and all, though some clips from the new bridging material was used as filler), but it remained on network television for 4. Bugs Bunny's Busting Out All Over, however, contained no vintage clips and featured the first new Bugs Bunny cartoons in 1. Coyote and Road Runner short filled out the half hour). Also, there have been various compilation films, including the independently produced Bugs Bunny: Superstar (utilizing the vintage shorts then owned by United Artists), while Warner Bros. He also made guest appearances in episodes of the 1. Tiny Toon Adventures as the principal of Acme Looniversity and the mentor of Babs and Buster Bunny, and would later make occasional guest cameos on spinoffs Taz- Mania, Animaniacs and Histeria! He appears in the beginning of Gremlins 2: The New Batch, where he tries to ride the opening Warner Bros logo, but is interrupted by Daffy Duck. Western Publishing had the license for all the Warner Brothers cartoons, and produced Bugs Bunny comics first for Dell Comics, then later for their own Gold Key Comics. Dell published 5. Gold Key continued for another 1. DC Comics, the sister/subsidiary company of Warner Bros., has published several comics titles since 1. Bugs has appeared in. Notable among these was the 2. Superman & Bugs Bunny, written by Mark Evanier and drawn by Joe Staton. This depicted a crossover between DC's superheroes and the Warner cartoon characters. Studios and its various divisions. He and Mickey are the first cartoon characters to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. However, since the film was being produced by Disney, Warner Bros. Because of this, both characters are always together in frame when onscreen. They appear in a scene where they are skydiving while Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) has no parachute, so Bugs offers him a . They appear in the end as well, along with all the other toons. For the same reasons, Bugs never calls Mickey by his name, only referring to him as . This was the first Bugs Bunny cartoon short since 1. Bugs Bunny 5. 0th anniversary celebration. It was followed in 1. Blooper) Bunny, a short that has gained a cult following among some animation fans for its edgy humor. This special is notable for being the first time that somebody other than Mel Blanc voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (they were voiced by Jeff Bergman.). In 1. 99. 6, Bugs and the rest of the Looney Tunes appeared in the live- action/animated film, Space Jam. In the film, the Looney Tunes are in danger of being enslaved by a group of aliens. Due to the aliens' small stature, the Looney Tunes challenge the aliens to a basketball game, but the aliens (known as the Nerdlucks) steal the talent of the best NBA players such as Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing and become hulking, talented palyers known as the Monstars.
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