Little Blabbermouse

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Airdate:
6 July 1940 Blue Ribbon reissue: 12 June 1948

Series:

Merrie Melodies

MPAA Number:	Production Number:
5794	MM-9-9

Copyright Renewed:

29 April 1968^[1]

Crew

Voice Characterizations:

Mel Blanc (uncredited)
Thurl Ravenscroft (uncredited)
Bill Thompson (uncredited)
Bill Days (uncredited)
The Sportsmen Quartet (uncredited)
The Rhythmettes (uncredited)^[2]

Layout Artist:

Owen Fitzgerald (uncredited)
Robert Logan Holdeman (uncredited)

Background Artist:

Peter Gaenger (uncredited)
Griff Jay (uncredited)

Film Editor:

Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Carl W. Stalling

Little Blabbermouse is a 1940 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Title[]

The title is a play on "little blabbermouth."

Plot[]

A mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads tours of a drugstore for other mice. There are a number of products living up to their names: vanishing cream, reducing pills, sleeping powders, smelling salts, cough medicine. On to the lunch counter: a giant malt (sign). More products: shaving brush, Krazy mineral water, a rubber band (and brushes dancing to it). A musical revue: the clocks all sing "Start the Day Right"; an order pad would "Love to Take Orders from You"; a ballet troupe wants to "Shake Your Powder Puff"; and so on. Greeting cards greet our tourists. The mousetraps are harmless, but the cat next to them isn't, and thus ends the tour. An annoying little boy who's been chatting away the whole time finally gets a jar of alum in the face to shut him up.

Caricatures[]

Marian Jordan - the title character is based on her character Tini
W.C. Fields
George Washington
Jerry Colonna - greeting card character says "Greetings, Gate!"

Availability[]

Streaming[]

Notes[]

Little Blabbermouse would star the same year in another short titled "Shop, Look and Listen", which was also directed by Friz Freleng.
The European Turner dubbed print replaces original 1938-1941 Merrie Melodies ending music cue with 1941-1955 ones. The American Turner dubbed print, however, does not have this edit. As the HBO Max restoration uses the EU dubbed soundtrack, the error persists in that version.
The "rubber band" gag would be used again in "Tin Pan Alley Cats" as well as "Dough for the Do-Do".
This was the last cartoon that Ben Hardaway wrote for Warner Brothers before he left to work for Walter Lantz Productions. He would eventually return in 1948 and write "A Bone for a Bone" for Friz. Soon after, he left to work on "Pow-Wow the Indian Boy", featured on Captain Kangaroo.^[3]
According to the model sheet, the Blabbermouse character was originally named "Parcheezer."
Vitaphone production number: 9159