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This article is about the 1938 short. For the the 1994 Sega Mega Drive game, see Daffy Duck in Hollywood (game).

Daffy Duck in Hollywood is a 1938 Merrie Melodies short directed by Tex Avery.

Plot[]

At Wonder Studios, producer I.M. Stupendous is interrupted by Daffy asking if he needs a duck actor. He quickly responds "No!" and states, "Y'know, that duck's screwy". The phone rings and Daffy pops out of it saying "You're correct, absolutely correct!" Stupendous then phones Director Von Hemberger (a parody on Josef von Sternberg who bears some resemblance to Porky Pig with Piggy Hamhock's shape, except for he speaks with a German accent, rolling his r's and not stuttering) and orders him to finish the picture he's working on that day.

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Daffy bites Von Hemberger’s nose while having lunch

On the set, all the crew rushes to follow his orders, including lighting his cigarette, which they all do at once so he must light it himself. Daffy then walks up and starts smoking the cigarette, spelling out Warner Bros. ("Just givin' my bosses a plug", Daffy tells the audience, "I've got an option comin' up!!") Hemberger checks the sound, and Daffy whistles into the microphone; he checks the lights, which Daffy has switched with the emergency fire hose. When the cameras roll, they start spitting out bullets Daffy planted. Hemberger begins crying because it resulted the movie he's making to turn out into a "gangster picture" which was not what he wanted in the first place. Daffy sympathetically gives him a gift, promising to "stop being screwy"; however, he didn't mean what he said as when Hemberger opens the gift Daffy simply pinches his nose again and runs off hooting wildly.

As they begin filming, a typical romantic scene between a rooster and hen plays out. When the inevitable kiss comes up, Daffy kisses the hen; he is so excited that he does it again. The time being noon, Hemberger decides to have lunch. "I'll take turkey with all the trrrrimmings!" However, Daffy is under the platter, and pinches his nose again. In the film room, Daffy begins clipping and pasting together random film clips ("WOW! I'll make him a REAL feature! Woo-hoo!"), which he switches out with Hemberger's film. Hemberger shows his "film", which contains ridiculous live-action clips of random scenes tied together, such as gold mining, square dancing, the World Championship Fight in Madison Round Garden, etc. Despite Hemberger's obvious (and justified) fear, Stupendous approves of the film, which causes Hemberger to faint.

Soon enough, Daffy is made a new film director, uttering the same line about having turkey, complete with accent and Hemberger's clothing. Hemberger, who apparently has lost his sanity at the end of the previous scene, now imitates Daffy and hides under the platter, pinching his nose and hooting wildly like Daffy.

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Notes[]

  • Wonder Studios is a direct parody of Warner Bros. Even the caption "If it's a good picture, it's a Wonder" parodies the famous marketing slogan.
  • This was one of two cartoons that were shown on Cartoon Network's Looney Tunes marathon on New Years' Day 2009 to carry the Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) logo; the other was another Daffy Duck outing - Nasty Quacks. Most other formerly a.a.p.-owned cartoons on the marathon were shown as "dubbed versions" (such a version of Nasty Quacks also aired from time to time), and the rest that did not bear the a.a.p. logo. The same a.a.p. print of this cartoon aired in November 2009 as part of a weekday Looney Tunes show.[citation needed]
  • The Polish dub of this short replaces the late-1938 opening rendition of "Merrily We Roll Along" with the 1940-41 rendition.[3]
  • This was the final Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Tex Avery.
  • This cartoon has a special ending rendition of "Merrily We Roll Along" with a rather strange zoom-in sound-effect. Both Turner prints keep this special ending music.
  • This cartoon is not to be confused for Friz Freleng's "Hollywood Daffy" (1946), another cartoon featuring a "screwball" Daffy causing havoc at a Hollywood studio.
  • The rooster and hen in Director Von Hemberger's movie would later reappear in "Hamateur Night" (1939) the following year, but this time performing a Romeo and Juliet sketch on stage, and minus Daffy Duck's interference.
  • The film used as the bookends for Daffy's adjusted picture is Gold is Where You Find It, a 1938 Warner Brothers release directed by Michael Curtiz.
  • The fat woman seen in Daffy’s “film” is Nellie Lane, who once held the title of the heaviest woman in the world.
  • This was the final cartoon shown in the series finale of The Bugs & Daffy Show.[4]

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References[]

  1. Catalog of Copyright Entries
  2. (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media, page 66. 
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsfNpIHlkjg
  4. https://cnas.fandom.com/wiki/April_11,_2004
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1941 A Coy DecoyThe Henpecked Duck
1942 Conrad the SailorDaffy's Southern ExposureThe Impatient PatientThe Daffy DuckarooMy Favorite Duck
1943 To Duck .... or Not to DuckThe Wise Quacking DuckYankee Doodle DaffyPorky Pig's FeatScrap Happy DaffyA Corny ConcertoDaffy - The Commando
1944 Tom Turk and DaffyTick Tock TuckeredDuck Soup to NutsSlightly DaffyPlane DaffyThe Stupid Cupid
1945 Draftee DaffyAin't That DuckyNasty Quacks
1946 Book RevueBaby BottleneckDaffy DoodlesHollywood DaffyThe Great Piggy Bank Robbery
1947 Birth of a NotionAlong Came DaffyA Pest in the HouseMexican Joyride
1948 What Makes Daffy DuckDaffy Duck Slept HereThe Up-Standing SitterYou Were Never DuckierDaffy DillyThe Stupor SalesmanRiff Raffy Daffy
1949 Wise QuackersHoliday for DrumsticksDaffy Duck Hunt
1950 Boobs in the WoodsThe Scarlet PumpernickelHis Bitter HalfGolden YeggsThe Ducksters
1951 Rabbit FireDrip-Along DaffyThe Prize Pest
1952 Thumb FunCracked QuackRabbit SeasoningThe Super SnooperFool Coverage
1953 Duck AmuckMuscle TussleDuck Dodgers in the 24½th CenturyDuck! Rabbit, Duck!
1954 Design for LeavingQuack ShotMy Little Duckaroo
1955 Beanstalk BunnySahara HareStork NakedThis Is a Life?Dime to Retire
1956 The High and the FlightyRocket SquadStupor DuckA Star Is BoredDeduce, You Say
1957 Ali Baba BunnyBoston QuackieDucking the DevilShow Biz Bugs
1958 Don't Axe MeRobin Hood Daffy
1959 China JonesPeople Are BunnyApes of Wrath
1960 Person to Bunny
1961 The Abominable Snow RabbitDaffy's Inn Trouble
1962 Quackodile TearsGood Noose
1963 Fast Buck DuckThe Million HareAqua Duck
1964 The Iceman Ducketh
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseMoby DuckAssault and PepperedWell Worn DaffySuppressed DuckCorn on the CopTease for TwoChili Corn CornyGo Go Amigo
1966 The AstroduckMucho LocosMexican MousepieceDaffy RentsA-Haunting We Will GoSnow ExcuseA Squeak in the DeepFeather FingerSwing Ding AmigoA Taste of Catnip
1967 Daffy's DinerQuacker TrackerThe Music Mice-TroThe Spy SwatterSpeedy Ghost to TownRodent to StardomGo Away StowawayFiesta Fiasco
1968 Skyscraper CaperSee Ya Later Gladiator
1980 The Yolks on YouThe Chocolate ChaseDaffy Flies NorthDuck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century
1987 The Duxorcist
1988 The Night of the Living Duck
1990 Box Office Bunny
1991 (Blooper) Bunny
1992 Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1995 Carrotblanca
1996 Superior Duck
2003 Attack of the Drones
2004 Daffy Duck for President
2012 Daffy's Rhapsody
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