Swooner Crooner
| Swooner Crooner | |
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| Looney Tunes (Porky Pig) series | |
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| Directed by | Frank Tashlin |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Voices by |
Mel Blanc Richard Bickenbach |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by |
Izzy Ellis George Cannata |
| Studio | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 6, 1944 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes (one reel) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Swooner Crooner is a 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions and released to theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures. The cartoon was nominated for the 1944 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) (the only Porky Pig cartoon to do so), which it lost to the MGM Tom and Jerry cartoon Mouse Trouble, which shared one of 7 Oscars for the Tom and Jerry series.
Porky Pig is the supervisor of the "Flockheed Eggcraft Factory", where dozens of hens lay eggs for the war effort (in this case, World War II to the tune of Powerhouse). The hens suddenly get distracted from their egg laying when a handsome rooster named Frankie (who sings like and is a caricature of Frank Sinatra) is heard singing outside. Frankie's renditions of "It Can't Be Wrong" by Dick Haymes and "As Time Goes By" (from Casablanca, 1942) causes all the hens to swoon.
Porky rushes to investigate. Soon, he's auditioning for a new crooner; those showing up are caricatures of Nelson Eddy ("Shortnin' Bread"), Al Jolson ("September in the Rain"), Jimmy Durante ("Lullaby of Broadway"), Cab Calloway ("Blues in the Night"), and Bing Crosby ("When My Dream Boat Comes Home")
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