Hiss And Make Up
- Studio
- Leon Schlesinger Studios
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Cat, dog and canary battle it out in a warm house on a snowy night- all under the eye of a wary grandma. Cats are cats, and dogs will be dogs, until they receive an ultimatum to behave from Granny.
Characters
Granny, Roscoe the Dog, Wellington the Cat, Canary
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Isadore Freleng (as I. Freleng)
Producing
- Producer
- Leon Schlesinger
Writing
- Writer
- Michael Maltese
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Roscoe the Dog, Wellington the Cat), Bea Benedaret (Granny)
Music
- Music
- Carl W. Stalling
Animation
- Animator
- Gerry Chiniquy
- Animators, uncredited
- Richard Bickenbach, Ken Champin, Manuel Perez
Art Department
- Background Artist, uncredited
- Lester Kester
Production notes
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their Blue Ribbon program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Pictures
Reviews
Hiss And Make Up
There is an incredible handful of WB cartoons that shows primal rage in characters, all having the same, simplistic formula, all for some odd reason seem to involve cats and all are virtually unduplicated (there are at best 3 versions of Porky Pig and the silent Sylvester in a haunted situation).
* Claude the Cat fighting with that frisky puppy to the point where he blows up the furnace in the basement. They have had other cartoons, but the furnace one is eyebrow-raising to behold.
* Sylvester, Tweetie, Granny and Hector the bulldog, with a cast on his leg.
"Is That You, Hector?" and here comes Granny with the tonic. Finally it would backfire even on Tweety.
* There is a rarely seen gem with an anonymous cat in a bow waiting for the pet store to bring him another canary to devour. The cat is saturated in selfishness. Pure evil as he even watches for the delivery truck.
* Sylvester and the little white kitten in Elmer Fudd's house. Breaking dishes, and when that radio is turned on, there's no holding back anymore.
Then we have "Hiss and Make Up" a Friz Freleng offering.
With Roscoe the dog and Wellington the cat, these characters would never be seen again. They would evolve into Sylvester, Hector, even Foghorn Leghorn's arch-rival, the guard dog of the henhouse.
Yet Roscoe and Wellington are true precedents of the craft. Absolute pioneers.
The poor canary wanted nothing to do with the feud, which does make him a rarity as well. Finally he snapped in the end and turned on the duo.
Roscoe and Wellington would be one of the few times (at best I recall a Sam and Bugs fight) where we see the fellows wrestling and throwing the fists. All the other times it seems the cloud of dust would hide them from our view.
Yet even still, these two monsters pulled out all the stops; Roscoe would put Wellington's tail under the rocker.
To that classic Carl Stallings music, we see Wellington with an ink pad and dog prints making the living room look like Roscoe went mad.
There would be other rather obvious Stalling work on Granny coming down the stairs.
Roscoe retaliates with glue and feathers on WEllington's mouth.
Wellington does likewise with shaving cream on Roscoe!
Then the canary has had enough out of these two Granny-cowards.
And they reciprocate in the only way they know how.
Enter Granny.
Foghorn Leghorn, Hector the bulldog, Sylvester and Claude can only bow to these masters of the game.
Now hiss and make up!