Gorilla My Dreams

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Gorilla My Dreams
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Production company Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date January, 1948
Run time 7:30
Starring Mel Blanc
Music composed by Carl Stalling
Story by Warren Foster
Director(s) Robert McKimson
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Gorilla My Dreams is the two hundredth and thirty-second Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 3, 1948. It was written by Michael Maltese and directed by Robert McKimson.

Bugs winds up on an island populated by apes, where he becomes the reluctant baby of a gorilla couple. There, he must outwit the gruesome husband of the gorilla wife.

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Characters

Legend
Character debut Speaking debut Ep. debut No lines Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character Actor
Bugs Bunny Mel Blanc
Gruesome Gorilla Mel Blanc
Gruesome Gorilla's wife Mel Blanc
Tarzan Mel Blanc


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Production

Development

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The short was developed as a parody of jungle-themed fiction from the first half of the 20th century, made popular by Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes,[1] which prominently featured gorillas; though not always behaviorally accurately. The story was completed in late 1945, around the time when the post-war baby boom emerged in the United States.[1]

Filming

Voice recordings were held on January 19, 1946.[1]

The film was copyrighted on 1947 (MCMXLVII).

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

  • United States: January 3, 1948 in theatres

Behind the scenes

  • The title is a play on the expression "girl o' my dreams." It is also likely a reference to the 1934 film of the same name, though the short has nothing to do with it.
  • The MPAA certificate number is 11444.
  • A similar sequence where Bugs is adrift on the ocean was previously reused from Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips, and then later used again in Rabbitson Crusoe.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Baxter, Devon (July 8, 2015). Robert McKimson's "Gorilla My Dreams". Cartoon Research.