Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1944 Friz Freleng directed, Hare Force:
Sylvester the Dog here is not to be confused for Sylvester the Cat, who would debut the following year in Life with Feathers. Sylvester the Dog here is actually Willoughby the Dog, although for some reason renamed. Willoughby previously appeared in six cartoons before this:Of Fox and Hounds, The Crackpot Quail, The Heckling Hare, Nutty News, The Hep Cat, An Itch in Time) was also renamed differently in The Hep Cat (as Rosebud) and An Itch in Time (as Rover).
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to celebrate the anniversary the very unfortunate passing of Vera Jane Palmer on this date in 1987. Ms. Palmer (or as she was known professionally as Jayne Mansfield,) was an internationally known sex-symbol, singer and Hollywood movie star during the 50s and early 60s. 20th Century Fox used her as a cudgel to get their very troubled megastar Marilyn Monroe into line. Jayne met a very famous yet tragic end on a foggy New Orleans highway in 1967. Today we would like to watch one of her early popular films. So we would like you to sit back (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching her first starring role, the 1956 classic - The Girl Can't Help It.
Abbey Lincoln who is performing Spread the Word in the nightclub scene with Jayne Mansfield and Tom Ewell is wearing a costume that was previously worn by Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Another costume from that film appears in a later scene backstage at the theater, when Tom Ewell passes a chorus girl on the stairs. She is wearing the outfit in which Jane Russell performed Diamond Are A Girl's Best Friend in the courtroom.
Demand Euphoria!
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