Those Beautiful Dames

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Airdate:
10 November 1934

Series:

Merrie Melodies

Production Number:
6571

Copyright Renewed:

23 July 1962^[1]

Crew

Director:

Isadore Freleng

Written By:

Ben Harrison (uncredited)

Producer:

Leon Schlesinger

Animated By:

Paul Smith
Charles Jones

Film Editor:

Bernard B. Brown (uncredited)
Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Bernard Brown

Those Beautiful Dames is a 1934 Merrie Melodies short directed by Isadore Freleng.

Plot[]

On a snowy night, a poor orphan girl looks into a store window at all the pretty toys. Sad that she has no money to buy one, she continues her walk until she enters a run-down shack so she can escape the snowstorm. However, the shack is so run-down that even a mouse is starving inside, and there are icicles hanging in the fireplace, extinguishing the last flame.

As she sleeps, the toys from the store all come to life and redecorate the shack. They repaint the walls and apply wallpaper. At midnight, the toys celebrate and start to sing and set up a show. After dancing for a while, they have a big party with lots of cake and ice cream. As the girl tries to eat her ice cream, a jack-in-the-box pops open and surprises her, but she still cheers in happiness.

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Notes[]

This is the first Merrie Melodies short to be in 2-hue Technicolor. Two earlier shorts, "Honeymoon Hotel" and "Beauty and the Beast", were released in Cinecolor prior to this short. This two-hue Technicolor process is limited to only red and green hues; at the time, the three-strip process with blue hues was exclusive to Disney for use in cartoons. This contract ran out in the fall of 1935, and WB released their first three-strip Technicolor cartoon, "Flowers for Madame", in November the following year.
As a result of the change to Technicolor, this is the first short to use the 1934-35 curtains opening and closing sequence. A jester would also replace the previous characters in the closing sequence, now announcing "That's all Folks!" instead of "So long folks!" However, the first design for the jester would only be used for this cartoon, while "Pop Goes Your Heart" through "Billboard Frolics" would use a new jester design.
Starting with this short, all Merrie Melodies cartoons would be produced in color. The Looney Tunes cartoons remained in black and white for another eight years.^[2]
Even though the original opening and closing titles are known to exist in a restored state, they have yet to be released for DVD or on HBO Max; the version released on LaserDisc is the 1995 dubbed version.^[3]