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Swooner Crooner (1944)

APPROVED 7 min  -  Animation | Family | Short  -   6 May 1944 (USA)
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Porky Pig's egg faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.

Director:

Frank Tashlin

Writer:

Warren Foster (story)

Stars:

Mel Blanc
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Porky Pig (voice)
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Storyline

Hens are working in the "Flockheed Eggcraft Factory", laying eggs for the war effort until they get distracted by a rooster singing like Frank Sinatra. Porky, the supervisor, rushes to investigate. Soon, he's auditioning for a new crooner; among those showing up are caricatures of Al Jolson, 'Jimmy Durante' and Cab Calloway. He evetually gets to a Bing Crosby clone, who introduces himself as "The Old Groaner". Between the two of them, egg production is soon more than he can handle. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>  

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Egg | Porky Pig | Egg Production | Reference To Al Jolson | Anthropomorphism  | See more »

Genres:

Animation | Family | Short | Comedy | Music

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Leon Schlesinger Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures See more »
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Sound Mix:

Mono

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Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

Frank Sinatra was probably voiced by a member of The King's Men, a group that had performed for other Warner Brothers shorts. See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: When Porky goes to stop the assembly line, the boxes on the conveyor belt disappear at the point where Porky was picking them up before. See more »

Crazy Credits

The closing scene, before credits, Porky Pig asked Frank & Bing, how they together, got his hens, to lay the large quantities of eggs, then Frank and Bing teamed together, their musical voices caused Porky Pig, as if he became a hen, to lay a big quantity of eggs. Then comes the short's closing credits. See more »

Connections

Featured in Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons (2000) See more »

Soundtracks

"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
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