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Little Blabbermouse

  • 1940
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Little Blabbermouse (1940)
AnimationComedyFamilyShort

A mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads tours of a drugstore for other mice. We see a number of products living up to their names: vanishing cream, reducing pills, sleeping powders, smelling s... Read allA mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads tours of a drugstore for other mice. We see 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... Read allA mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads tours of a drugstore for other mice. We see 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: t... Read all

  • Director
    • Friz Freleng
  • Writer
    • Ben Hardaway
  • Stars
    • Bill Days
    • Bill Thompson
    • Mel Blanc
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    191
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Friz Freleng
    • Writer
      • Ben Hardaway
    • Stars
      • Bill Days
      • Bill Thompson
      • Mel Blanc
    • 5User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Bill Days
    • Order Book
    • (voice)
    Bill Thompson
    Bill Thompson
    • W.C. Fields Mouse
    • (voice)
    Mel Blanc
    Mel Blanc
    • Little Blabbermouse
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Tedd Pierce
    • W.C. Fields Mouse
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Thurl Ravenscroft
    • Chew Tobacco
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    The Sportsmen Quartet
    • Vocalists
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Friz Freleng
    • Writer
      • Ben Hardaway
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    • Trivia
      The overhead pulley system shown was commonly used in retail establishments of the time. They transported cash, paperwork and goods. The pneumatic tube system, also a sight gag used in cartoons, would evolve from this.
    • Goofs
      When the basket first goes up, Little Blabbermouse is left behind because he was standing in one of the openings in the bottom of the basket. The tour guide provides him with a small pad he can stand in, yet as the basket rises a second time, the entire bottom of the basket is covered, and remains so for the remainder of the cartoon.
    • Connections
      Featured in Toon in with Me: Let's Go Antiquing! (2023)
    • Soundtracks
      (Ho-dle-ay) Start the Day Right
      (uncredited)

      Music by Maurice Spitalny

      Lyrics by Charles Tobias and Al Lewis

    User reviews5

    Featured review
    7/10

    drugstore mouse boy

    The first appearance of the over-talkative rodent was Friz Freleng's "Little Blabbermouse", in which a mouse resembling W.C. Fields hosts a tour of a drugstore full of puns. Dangers arrives in the form of a cat. The plot appeared again in "Shop Look and Listen", only that time set in a department store.

    These cartoons were always some of the neatest, even if the jokes were pretty hokey. The theme of inanimate objects coming to life of course reached its apex with Bob Clampett's "Book Revue". Still, this one has some neat stuff (like the coins singing "We're in the Money"). Pretty interesting.
    • lee_eisenberg
    • Oct 18, 2012
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    • Which series is this from: Merrie Melodies or Looney Tunes?
    • List: The alum gag

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    • Release date
      • July 6, 1940 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • El ratón parlanchín
    • Production company
      • Leon Schlesinger Studios
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    • Runtime
      8 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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