Page Miss Glory
- This article is about the short. For the song, see Page Miss Glory (song).
| Page Miss Glory | |
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| Production company | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | March 7, 1936 |
| Run time | 7:42 |
| Starring | The Varisty Three Bernice Hansen Tedd Pierce Jackie Morrow Fred Avery[1] |
| Producer(s) | Leon Schlesinger |
| Music composed by | Norman Spencer |
| Director(s) | Fred Avery[2][3] |
| Art director(s) | Leadora Congdon[3] |
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Page Miss Glory is the fifty-seventh Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on March 7, 1936. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Tex Avery.
In the small town of Hicksville, a bellhop of a small rural hotel waits for the glamorous Miss Glory to arrive. However, he falls asleep and dreams that the hotel is instead an abstract, modern skyscraper.
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Production
Development
The layouts (referred in the credits as "moderne art") were conceived and designed by Leadora Congdon, an artist living at Chicago, Illinois, who specialized in making designs in the then-modern Art Deco style.[4] In a syndicated story with the Baltimore Sun of June 20, 1937, Schlesinger recalled how he came contact with Congdon:
"Not long ago, we decided to do something definitely different. A girl from Chicago showed me some ultra-modernistic sets she had designed which she thought could be used as backgrounds for a sophisticated cartoon. In order to show off the sets, we had to use human characters and have the camera shoot the sort of angles Busby Berkeley made famous. The idea was novel and the result original, but somehow it was not so funny as if animals, fowls or insects had been used."
- Leon Schlesinger, in the Baltimore Sun[5]
Filming
It was copyrighted in 1936 (MCMXXXVI).
Music
The music was composed by Harry Warren and Al Dubin.
The title song, "Page Miss Glory", was also composed by Warren and Dubin, and sung by The Varisty Three.
Crew credits
- Layouts: Leadora Congdon
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: March 7, 1936 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The short is inspired by the 1935 feature film of the same name.
- The MPAA certificate number is 1962.
- It is the first color animated short Tex Avery directed, in addition to being the first Merrie Melodies short he directed.
- This is the only Warner Bros. cartoon that has all of its crew uncredited. Leadora Congdon was the only person credited within the film.
- However, caricatures of some of them, including Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett and writer Melvin Millar, can be seen outside of the hotel near the end of the short.
- According to Avery, he considered Schlesinger's apparent dating with Congdon as the reason why the latter got sole credit.[3]
- Avery was highly dismissive of the short, who he believed it was "lousy" and that he was "forced to make it."[6][5]
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References
- ↑ Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70, p. 18. BearManor Media. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
- ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons, p. 42. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hartley, Steven (March 11, 2012). 127. "Page Miss Glory (1936)". Likely Looney Mostly Merrie. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
- ↑ Knight, Milton (January 1, 2014). "The Shock Of The New". Cartoon Research.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Yowp, Don M (November 18, 2017). "She Missed Glory". Tralfaz.
- ↑ Yowp, Don M (March 19, 2012). "Page Miss Glory and Mr Avery". Tralfaz.
