…doesn’t yield much useful in google.
Does anyone know how Charles Laughton reacted to the caricature of him in the Bugs Bunny “hasenpfeffer!” cartoon?
I used to have a coworker who bore a resemblance to Charles Laughton. Not a good look on a woman.
I think I went out with her once.
Not all that attractive a look in a man.
Or a cartoon character, for that matter.
Heh…I once suggested to a girlfriend that she name her new pet rabbit Hasenpfeffer.
It was over a year later that she was clued in.
Obviously, an ex-girlfriend.
Okay, I am snorting liquids.
No idea to the answer - but am curious.
Carry on…
twickster, perhaps you could link to a picture of the caricature. Or tell us the title of this cartoon. Or at least describe what you are talking about.
I didn’t know you worked with Janet Reno.
The name of the short is *Shishkabugs* and it came out in 1962, which is the year Laughton died, so maybe he never saw it. Anyway, here is the google page to that search, though the links don’t seem to be there.
Scroll down here to the Laughton entry for what’s being caricatured.
I can’t speak for Laughton, but a long time ago, I got a chance to have a brief conversation with Chuck Jones, who said that several well-known movie stars used to stop by the Warner Brothers animation studios.
Humphrey Bogart, for one, was a regular there. Bogart was used as a minor character in several Bugs Bunny pictures (“Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who’s down on his luck?”), and Jones said he LOVED it. Jones said that Peter Lorre and Edward G. Robinson, who were also used in Warner Brothers cartoons, got a big kick out of seeing themselves opposite Bugs and Daffy.
Laughton may or may not have had such a sense of humor about it.
I haven’t seen the cartoon, but Laughton had little vanity, and a good sense of humor. He relished the opportunity to do broad comedy in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd.
And of course there was (at least) one cartoon which featured Bogart as Bogart (but not voiced by Bogart) along with cameos from many other Warners stars of the time.