Hollywood Capers

Hollywood Capers
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Production company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	October 19, 1935
Run time	6:42 minutes
Starring	Tommy Bond Bernice Hansen Billy Bletcher
Producer(s)	Leon Schlesinger
Music composed by	Norman Spencer
Animation	Rollin Hamilton Charles Jones
Director(s)	Fred Avery
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Hollywood Capers is the sixty-third Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on October 19, 1935. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Jack King.

Beans sneaks into the studio lot of Warmer Brothers, but causes a lot of trouble by the time he enters in the middle of a film production.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
W.C. Fields	Tedd Pierce
Studio guard	Billy Bletcher
Beans	Tommy Bond
Charlie Chaplin	N/A
Oliver Hardy	N/A
Oliver Owl	Tedd Pierce
Porky Pig	N/A
Little Kitty	Bernice Hansell
Robot	Billy Bletcher

Organizations

• Warmer Brothers

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • California
      • Hollywood
        • Warmer Brothers studio
          • Stage 9 unit

Vehicles

• Bean's car

Music

The music was composed by Norman Spencer.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 19, 1935

Behind the scenes

• It is the first appearance of Beans, Porky, Oliver and Little Kitty in a Looney Tunes short. They previously appeared together in the Merrie Melodies cartoon I Haven't Got a Hat.
• Warmer Brothers is a thinly-veiled self-parody of Warner Bros.
• The scene where the bartender squirts drinks out of the machines is reused animation from Buddy's Beer Garden.
• The robot bears resemblance to Frankenstein's monster, specifically his portrayal by Boris Karloff in the 1931 Universal film.
• This short fell into the public domain in 1964, due to Seven Arts Productions (the short's then-recent copyright holder) failing to renew the copyright in time.

Legacy

• The name "Warmer Brothers" would be used in later cartoons in reference to the film studio that distributed this short, including Hameture Night and Hollywood Daffy.
• Like Beans, Porky would don a Oliver Hardy to get into a film studio in You Ought to Be in Pictures

In popular culture

• In the Futurama episodes "Raging Bender" and "A Bicycle Built for Two," a clip of this short appears at the end of the opening sequence.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • October 25, 2005: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 on DVD.