Famous Studios’ “Casper” cartoon short “Doing What’s Fright” (1955), co-starring ‘Spooky’, was directed by Seymour Kneitel and Thomas Johnson, starring Gwen Davies, Jack Mercer and Sid Raymond:
“…’Casper the Friendly Ghost’ tries to stop his cousin ‘Spooky’ from ‘April Fooling’ mortals, while scaring them at the same time.
“Spooky immediately makes Casper an April-Fool's victim. Casper tries his best to persuade Spooky to stop playing tricks on people but to no avail. Casper decides that Spooky has to be taught a lesson…”
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“…’Casper the Friendly Ghost’ tries to stop his cousin ‘Spooky’ from ‘April Fooling’ mortals, while scaring them at the same time.
“Spooky immediately makes Casper an April-Fool's victim. Casper tries his best to persuade Spooky to stop playing tricks on people but to no avail. Casper decides that Spooky has to be taught a lesson…”
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- 4/1/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
#231 (Vol. 2 #3): Killing Katnip
During my lengthy leave of absence from writing “Comics in Context,” the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York City and the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco jointly held a traveling exhibition on the art of Harvey Comics, many of whose most celebrated characters, such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, originated in animated cartoons produced by Paramount’s Famous Studios. I’m not that interested in Casper or Richie Rich, but the exhibit did reawaken my interest in some of the less famous animated stars of the Famous cartoons.
Towards the end of 2009, character actor Arnold Stang passed away, and I decided to write columns about two of the most memorable characters he voiced in animated cartoons. The first, starting in 1944, was Famous Studios’ Herman the mouse, who was eventually teamed with perennial antagonist Katnip the cat, voiced by the late Sid Raymond,...
During my lengthy leave of absence from writing “Comics in Context,” the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York City and the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco jointly held a traveling exhibition on the art of Harvey Comics, many of whose most celebrated characters, such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, originated in animated cartoons produced by Paramount’s Famous Studios. I’m not that interested in Casper or Richie Rich, but the exhibit did reawaken my interest in some of the less famous animated stars of the Famous cartoons.
Towards the end of 2009, character actor Arnold Stang passed away, and I decided to write columns about two of the most memorable characters he voiced in animated cartoons. The first, starting in 1944, was Famous Studios’ Herman the mouse, who was eventually teamed with perennial antagonist Katnip the cat, voiced by the late Sid Raymond,...
- 2/5/2010
- by Peter Sanderson
Arnold Stang was a character actor best known for his roles as nerdish comic foils on radio, television, and films. His distinctive nasal voice was also used to great effect for animated productions, notably as the voice of Top Cat, known as Tc by his friends, for the popular Hanna-Barbera animated television series Top Cat from 1960 to 1961. He was also the voice of Lulipopo in the animated feature Alakazam the Great in 1960, and Nurtle the Turtle in Pinocchio in Outer Space in 1965. He was Rumpelstiltskin in George Pal’s fantasy classic The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm in 1962.
Stang was born in Manhattan, New York, on September 28, 1918. He began his career on radio in children’s programs while in his teens. He worked with numerous comedy legends on radio and followed Milton Berle to television in the 1959s. He was Herman the mouse, opposite Sid Raymond’s Katnip the cat,...
Stang was born in Manhattan, New York, on September 28, 1918. He began his career on radio in children’s programs while in his teens. He worked with numerous comedy legends on radio and followed Milton Berle to television in the 1959s. He was Herman the mouse, opposite Sid Raymond’s Katnip the cat,...
- 12/31/2009
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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