Loading AI tools
1937 film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I Only Have Eyes for You is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.[4] The short was released on February 27, 1937.[5]
I Only Have Eyes for You | |
---|---|
Directed by | Fred Avery |
Story by | Bob Clampett[1] Tedd Pierce |
Produced by | Leon Schlesinger Henry Binder Raymond G. Katz[1] |
Starring | Elvia Allman Joe Twerp Tedd Pierce Billy Paye[2] |
Edited by | Treg Brown |
Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
Animation by | Bob Clampett Virgil Ross |
Layouts by | Griff Jay |
Backgrounds by | Art Loomer[1] |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release dates |
March 17, 1945 (Blue Ribbon reissue) |
Running time | about 8 minutes |
Language | English |
The title of this short is based on the song of the same name.
The protagonist (voiced by spoonerism specialist Joe Twerp), who drives an ice-delivery truck, is wooed by a homely spinster bird (voiced by Elvia Allman) who hopes to entice him with her culinary talents. The iceman, on the other hand, is only interested in Katie Canary (a Katharine Hepburn impression voiced by Sara Berner),[6] who only wants to marry a radio crooner and rebuffs his overtures to the point where she prefers ordering a refrigerator.
The iceman, in order to win Katie, hires a voice imitator, Professor Mockingbird (voiced by Tedd Pierce), to simulate crooners from the back of his ice truck while the iceman lip-syncs. The scheme eventually backfires when Professor Mockingbird turns blue from the extreme cold in the ice truck, and gets sick to the point that he sneezes the top of the truck off, causing Katie to discover the iceman's ruse. Katie marries the Professor, being sufficiently impressed by his crooning ability (while replacing her radio with an electric refrigerator, as a means to keep the iceman away from her forever), while the iceman is finally won over by the spinster's cooking and baking and presumably marries her.
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.