lezzles wrote:
What was Trigger's big film role before joining up with Roy?
As I recall, before Trigger became Roy's trusty steed, he was Maid Marian's horse in the 1930's version of The Adventures of Robin Hood. I don't think he was called Trigger back then, though. These Hollywood stars keep changing their names, you know.
Mel Blanc was the usual voice of every major Warner Brothers cartoon character in the 40's and 50's except for whom? (excluding characters with no voice at all)
Nope. Bigger star than Pepe LePew.
This is surprising. Blanc took over the voice only after the original voice actor died circa 1960.
Was it, gasp! Bugs? I seem to remember his voice was different in the beginning.
I just researched it on IMDB, and it WAs Elmer Fudd.
Yup, Elmer Fudd. An actor named Arthur Q Bryan was Elmer's voice until he died in 1959.
Trivial note: Blanc was also not the original voice of Porky Pig but was his voice for most of Porky's career; Joe Dougherty was the original voice actor in 1935. Dougherty actually did stutter, but couldn't control it. In 1937, Mel Blanc was hired, who only stuttered when he was supposed to.
Mel Blanc. He played Pancho on the last radio season of Cisco Kid.
He was very versatile. He was also the voice of Jack Benny's car (a 1923 Maxwell).
I understand Blanc's epitaph appropriately reads, "That's All, Folks!"
Don't forget, Mel also played a Mexican on Jack Benny (The Lucky Strike Show). To every question Jack asked him, the answers were preordained.
Si
Sigh
Sue
Sew
Benny: So what's your name?
Blanc: Cy.
Benny: Cy?
Blanc: Si.
Benny: Are you married?
Blanc: Si.
Benny: What's your wife's name?
Blanc: Sue.
Benny: Sue?
Blanc: Si.
Benny: Does she help around the house?
Blanc: Si.
Benny: What does she do?
Blanc: Sew.
Benny: Sew?
Blanc: Si.
Benny: NOW CUT THAT OUT!!!
Who was the sixties kid show performer who instructed his young audience to take the little green pieces of paper from their parents wallets and mail them to him?
Yeah, Soupy Sales ... it was a throwaway line, an ad-lib time-filler resulting from a live show's timeslot running a few seconds longer than its scheduled content. It happened New Years Day, '65, and though it caused a stir, according to Sales and others who prolly really do know, he got just a few dollars and lots of play money. His show was suspended by his host station, NYC's ABC affilliate WNEW, but within a week clamor from viewers, advertisors, and other stations which carried the show carried the day and he was back on the air. What he actually asked the "kids" to do is pretty much an open question, since the bit was live and was not recorded. The "kids" part is sorta misleading too, since his audience demographic weighted heavilly into the teen/young adult market; his "style" was a bit too hip to appeal strongly to the younger crowd. Apart from the "green paper" thing, he was the day's foremost pie-in-the-face champ, and it generally is accepted that his reputation for on-air salacious quips was unearned; he got a lotta credit for stuff he never did.
Edit to add: I should prolly say a guy I know was a broadcast engineer for WNEC at the time - he wasn't on duty for that bit, but he can be assumed to have gotten his info from folks who were, and he certainly was around to witness the follow-on flap.
Soupy got his start in the television market I grew up watching--greater Detroit. Oddly enough, a fellow Michigan refugee and I were talking about the show today at work. He claimed there are DVDs available of the old Soupy Sales show from Detroit (WXYZ, I believe) which I did not know.
I don't remember much about the show, other than low production values, which were apparent to me even as a wee lad.
I don't recall that I ever watched Soupy, but his face was very familiar to me from a young age.
