Stage Door Cartoon

Stage Door Cartoon
Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny) series

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Directed by I. Freleng
Story by Michael Maltese
Voices by Mel Blanc
Arthur Q. Bryan (uncredited)
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Animation by Jack Bradbury
Manuel Perez (uncredited)
Gerry Chiniquy (uncredited)
Virgil Ross (uncredited)
Richard Bickenbach (uncredited)
Ken Champin (uncredited)
Layouts by Hawley Pratt (uncredited)
Studio Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s) December 30, 1944
Color process Technicolor
Running time 8:04 seconds
Language English
Preceded by The Old Grey Hare
Followed by Herr Meets Hare

Stage Door Cartoon is a 1944 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and a predecessor to Yosemite Sam. The voices for Bugs and the proto-Sam are provided by Mel Blanc (who, by that year, had come to receive his exclusive voice credit), except for Elmer, who is voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan (as usual, uncredited). The cartoon's title is a parody of the 1943 musical film Stage Door Canteen.

Plot

Elmer Fudd attempts to catch Bugs with a carrot on a fish hook, but the tables are turned on Elmer when Bugs attaches the hook to Elmer's pants, causing Elmer to reel himself in. An angry Elmer chases Bugs to a Vaudeville theater, where Bugs performs a series of entertainment themed tricks on Elmer: Bugs disguises himself as a can-can dancer, but Elmer sees through the disguise. Bugs tricks Elmer into performing a high-diving act into a glass of water, and Elmer also gets tricked into performing a stage striptease down to his boxers.

Elmer arrested for "indecent southern exposure" by a prototype of Yosemite Sam.

Bugs disguises himself as a southern sheriff just as a real southern sheriff arrives to arrest Elmer for "indecent southern exposure". Before leaving the theater, a Bugs Bunny cartoon begins on the stage's movie screen and the sheriff decides to stay and watch it. Elmer appears to get wise when the cartoon shows the scene where Bugs disguises himself as the sheriff. Elmer, thinking the sheriff is Bugs Bunny in disguise, calls the sheriff an impostor and pulls off his clothes, only to realize he just disrobed a real sheriff. As the furious sheriff proceeds to lead Elmer out of the theater with his shotgun, Bugs conducts the orchestra into a big finale.

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    Preceded by
    The Old Grey Hare
    Bugs Bunny Cartoons
    1944
    Succeeded by
    Herr Meets Hare
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