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September 23, 1939 –The Looney Tunes short, Jeepers Creepers, directed by Bob Clampett and starring Porky Pig, was released on this date. This is the first of four Warner Bros. cartoons in which Porky Pig is a police officer. The others are: Daffy Doodles, Riff Raffy Daffy and Corn on the Cop.

September 23, 1949 – The Merrie Melodies short, Each Dawn I Crow, directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Elmer Fudd, was released on this date. The dramatic structure, with a sinisterly toned narrator addressing the protagonist (“You think you’ve gotten away with it, don’t you John?“), is a take-off on a then popular radio dramaContinue reading “Each Dawn I Crow premiered”

September 23, 1939 – The Merrie Melodies short, Land of the Midnight Fun, directed by Tex Avery, was released on this date. This cartoon seldom airs on American television due to Inuit stereotypes.

September 23, 1933 – The Merrie Melodies short, I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song, directed by Tom Palmer, was released on this date. This is the first Merrie Melodies cartoon in which a character says “That’s all, folks!” at the end. This line had only previously been spoken at the end of Looney TunesContinue reading “I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song premiered”

September 23, 1976 –The first episode for a very short lived series (the series only lasted 11 episodes.) Gemini Man, starring Ben Murphy, William Sylvester, and Katherine Crawford, premiered on this date. The series was conceived as a second attempt to adapt H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man into a spy series, following the failed attemptContinue reading “Gemini Man premiered”

September 23, 1944 – Frank Capra’s screwball comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace, starring Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Priscilla Lane. Peter Lorre, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, and John Alexander, finally gets it US general release on this date. The film was based on a hit play and had toContinue reading “I’m the son of a sea-cook! Ha! Ha! Chaaaaarrrge!”

September 22, 1962 –The Looney Tunes short, The Jet Cage, directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Tweety Bird and Sylvester the Cat, was released on this date. This was the final time the oft-used Raymond Scott piece Powerhouse was featured in a Looney Tunes cartoon.

September 22, 1951 – The Merrie Melodies short, Tweety’s S.O.S., directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Tweety Bird and Sylvester the Cat, was released on this date One of the few times Tweety is heard singing, even if he is off screen.

September 22, 1958Joan Marie Larkin, singer/ musician extraordinaire was born on this date. If you love Rock and Roll, you love Joan

September 22, 1928 –Considered to be one of his best films, The Camerman directed by Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton, and starring Buster Keaton and Marceline Day, was released on this date. The film was almost lost forever. The only known copy at the time was destroyed in a fire at Storage Vault No. 7Continue reading “The Camerman premiered”