Those Beautiful Dames
| Those Beautiful Dames | |
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Title card | |
| Directed by | Isadore Freleng |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Music by | Bernard Brown |
| Animation by | Paul Smith Charles Jones |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Productions The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Those Beautiful Dames is a 1934 American animated comedy short film directed by Isadore Freleng.[1] The short was released on October 20, 1934. It is the 40th film in the Merrie Melodies series, featuring the titular song from the film Dames, and the first to be produced by 2-strip Technicolor; starting with this film, the Merrie Melodies were designated as the studio's color series, while Looney Tunes would be exclusively produced in black-and-white until 1943.[2][3][4]
Plot
One winter, a poor orphan girl walks by a toy store, but laments being unable to afford any toys while she returns home. She tries to start a large fire at the stove, but accidentally extinguishes the tiny flame, so she falls asleep in the cold. Toys somehow find their way to her house and sneakily renovate it until midnight.
At midnight, the girl is waken up and overjoyed to find the toys singing the titular song and dancing. While performances are underway, a toy eats cake meant for the girl, only to be scolded by a doll. The girl plays a record and dances to it. She is even more overjoyed when she finds that the toys prepare meals of ice cream and cake to eat together. The girl is amused when a jester emerges from the ice cream, even if she does not get to eat any.
References
- ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 29. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ^ Parten, James (December 10, 2019). "Big Changes For Merrie Melodies 1933–34". Cartoon Research. Retrieved June 12, 2026.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ Barrier, Michael (2003), "Warner Bros., 1933–1940", Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199839223