Susie the Little Blue Coupe

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Susie the Little Blue Coupe
Directed by	Clyde Geronimi
Produced by	Walt Disney
Written by	Bill Peet (story & adaptation) Don DaGradi (adaptation)
Starring	Sterling Holloway Stan Freberg
Music by	Paul J. Smith
Release date(s)	6 June 1952
Running time	7 min. 36 sec.
Country	USA
Language	English
Preceded by	Lambert the Sheepish Lion
Followed by	The Little House
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Susie the Little Blue Coupe is an animated short film released theatrically by Walt Disney Studios on 6 June 1952. The 8 minute film was directed by Clyde Geronimi and based on an original short-story by Bill Peet, the story was adapted for the screen by Peet and Don DaGradi.

The film's method of anthropomorphizing the cars, using the windshield for the eyes and eyelids, served as a stylistic inspiration for the 2006 Disney-Pixar animated feature, Cars.^[1]

The DVD release of The Love Bug featured this short as a special feature. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad DVD also features the short as a bonus episode on the DVD's trivia section.

1 Plot
2 Voice Cast
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Plot

Susie is a small blue coupe on display in a dealer showroom who is bought by a well-to-do man who is taken with her. Thrust into high-society, she finds herself surrounded by much larger, more luxurious cars but eventually makes do. She is pampered, but time takes its toll on her, mechanically and cosmetically; eventually, her owner trades her in. A second man buys her but her new life is much less pampered, being left her outside, in the cold and being poorly-maintained. One night, she is stolen, chased by the police and totaled in the resulting wreck. Rotting in a junkyard, all looks hopeless for Susie when a young man notices her, buys her, and completely restores and revives her into a brand new hotrod.