A Star Is Bored

A Star Is Bored
Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) series

Directed by	Friz Freleng
Produced by	Edward Selzer (uncredited)
Story by	Warren Foster
Voices by	Mel Blanc June Foray (uncredited) Arthur Q. Bryan (uncredited)
Music by	Milt Franklyn
Animation by	Art Davis Virgil Ross Gerry Chiniquy
Layouts by	Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds by	Irv Wyner
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s)	September 15, 1956 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English
Preceded by	Half-Fare Hare
Followed by	Wideo Wabbit

A Star Is Bored is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon of the Looney Tunes series, directed by Friz Freleng. The cartoon is mainly made up of reused footage from earlier cartoons to expand upon the rivalry depicted between Bugs and Daffy in such films as Chuck Jones' Rabbit Fire, this time placing the action in a show-biz setting. In this 7-minute short, Daffy must double for Bugs in any slapstick that Warners deems too dangerous for its top star.^[1]

Plot

The opening frame depicts the exterior of Bugs' dressing room, inside which he is talking to the journalist, Lolly (a reference to the nickname of famed Hollywood columnist Louella Parsons).

Daffy then marches into the casting director's (possibly Jack L. Warner) office just as he is on the phone with another executive discussing the difficulty in finding anyone "stupid enough" to be Bugs' stunt double for his next picture. Daffy of course takes the job!

After a visit to the Make-Up Department, Daffy gets his first taste of on-the-set film action shortly thereafter (a Western co-starring Yosemite Sam. Initially, Daffy is extremely excited to be finally in any motion picture. He takes Bugs' place in a rabbit costume and holding a carrot, and stands next to Sam. Daffy gets the worst of it instead of Bugs!

Next, Bugs is in a scene where Elmer Fudd is cast in his usual role as trying to hunt Bugs. Bugs is high in a tree, and Elmer is supposed to climb it to saw the branch Bugs is sitting on, off (though not all the way through, as Bugs reminds him). However, Daffy has other ideas. He tells Elmer to come closer to him, as he has something to tell him. Lacking a clue to Daffy's actual motive, Elmer shuffles closer to Daffy, who whacks him in the head to knock him out. Daffy tries to upstage Bugs by sawing off the branch Bugs is on; unfortunetly for Daffy, the branch Bug stands on is solid, while the part Daffy stands on falls to the ground!

After this sequence, Bugs is fishing off a pier, but Daffy takes no notice . He also takes Bugs' place at the end of the pier and his fishing rod. Yet he is not safe from the film script even now, as a giant bluefin tuna swallows him whole.

The next scene has Bugs piloting a plane accelerating up to 20,000 feet, then going uncontrollably in the direction of the ground. At the last second, the plane is "stopped" before crashing and Bugs get out and his place gets taken by Daffy who as usual gets the worst of it!

The final scene shows the filming of The Duck, with Daffy starring as a typical duck in a peaceful pond and directed by the same man who helmed the earlier movie wherein Daffy subbed for Bugs. Daffy gets blasted by Hunters!

Trivia

After each disaster, Daffy shouts "MAKEUP"
The unseen director directing the scenes has a Erich Von Stroheim accent.

Production

This was the first of the three Friz Freleng Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon to be mostly made up of reused animation from earlier cartoons. In terms of production order, the other two were Show Biz Bugs (1957) and Person to Bunny (1960).

Cast

Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Producer (voice)
Arthur Q. Bryan as Elmer Fudd (voice) (uncredited)
June Foray as Lolly (voice) (uncredited)

Availability

As of 2007, A Star Is Bored is available on the four-disc DVD box set Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5,^[2] as well as the similar, two-disc DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 5. It is also available as a bonus on the Playstation 2 version of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and the "Daffy Duck's Madcap Mania" VHS.

References

External links

A Star Is Bored at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Friz Freleng

1930s	Buddy the Gob (1934) Buddy and Towser (1934) Beauty and the Beast (1934) Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name (1935) I Haven't Got a Hat (1935) My Green Fedora (1935) The Cat Came Back (1936) I'm a Big Shot Now (1936) Bingo Crosbyana (1936) Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936) Toy Town Hall (1936) Boulevardier from the Bronx (1936) The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (1936) Pigs Is Pigs (1937) The Fella with the Fiddle (1937) She Was an Acrobat's Daughter (1937) Clean Pastures (1937) The Lyin' Mouse (1937) Jungle Jitters (1938)

1940s	Confederate Honey (1940) You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940) Porky's Bear Facts (1941) Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941) Notes to You (1941) Rhapsody in Rivets (1941) The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942) Fresh Hare (1942) The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942) Ding Dog Daddy (1942) Pigs in a Polka (1943) The Fifth-Column Mouse (1943) Greetings Bait (1943) Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943) Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943) Daffy – The Commando (1943) Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944) Snafuperman (1944) Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) Duck Soup to Nuts (1944) Hare Force (1944) Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944) Payday (1944) Three Brothers (1944) Stage Door Cartoon (1944) Herr Meets Hare (1945) Life with Feathers (1945) Hare Trigger (1945) Ain't That Ducky (1945) Peck Up Your Troubles (1945) Baseball Bugs (1946) Holiday for Shoestrings (1946) Hollywood Daffy (1946) Of Thee I Sting (1946) Racketeer Rabbit (1946) Rhapsody Rabbit (1946) The Gay Anties (1947) Tweetie Pie (1947) Rabbit Transit (1947) A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947) Along Came Daffy (1947) Slick Hare (1947) Back Alley Oproar (1948) I Taw a Putty Tat (1948) Buccaneer Bunny (1948) Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948) Hare Splitter (1948) Hare Do (1949) Kit for Cat (1948) Wise Quackers (1949) High Diving Hare (1949) Curtain Razor (1949) Knights Must Fall (1949) Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949) Dough for the Do-Do (1949) Which Is Witch (1949)

1950s	Home Tweet Home (1950) Mutiny on the Bunny (1950) The Lion's Busy (1950) Big House Bunny (1950) His Bitter Half (1950) All a Bir-r-r-d (1950) Golden Yeggs (1950) Bunker Hill Bunny (1950) Canary Row (1950) Canned Feud (1950) A Fox in a Fix (1951) Rabbit Every Monday (1951) A Bone for a Bone (1951) His Hare-Raising Tale (1951) The Fair-Haired Hare (1951) Room and Bird (1951) Tweety's S.O.S. (1951) Ballot Box Bunny (1951) Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951) Gift Wrapped (1952) Foxy by Proxy (1952) 14 Carrot Rabbit (1952) Little Red Rodent Hood (1952) Ain't She Tweet (1952) Cracked Quack (1952) A Bird in a Guilty Cage (1952) Tree for Two (1952) Hare Lift (1952) Snow Business (1953) A Mouse Divided (1953) Fowl Weather (1953) Southern Fried Rabbit (1953) Hare Trimmed (1953) Tom Tom Tomcat (1953) A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953) Catty Cornered (1953) Robot Rabbit (1953) Dog Pounded (1954) Captain Hareblower (1954) Bugs and Thugs (1954) Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954) Muzzle Tough (1954) Satan's Waitin' (1954) Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954) Goo Goo Goliath (1954) Pizzicato Pussycat (1955) Sahara Hare (1955) Sandy Claws (1955) Hare Brush (1955) Tweety's Circus (1955) This Is a Life? (1955) Hyde and Hare (1955) Speedy Gonzales (1955) Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955) Roman Legion-Hare (1955) Heir-Conditioned (1955) Tweet and Sour (1956) Rabbitson Crusoe (1956) Tree Cornered Tweety (1956) Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956) Tugboat Granny (1956) A Star Is Bored (1956) Three Little Bops (1957) Tweet Zoo (1957) Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957) Piker's Peak (1957) Birds Anonymous (1957) Bugsy and Mugsy (1957) Greedy for Tweety (1957) Show Biz Bugs (1957) Hare-Less Wolf (1958) A Pizza Tweety Pie (1958) Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) Trick or Tweet (1959) Apes of Wrath (1959) Tweet and Lovely (1959) Mexicali Shmoes (1959) Wild and Woolly Hare (1959)

1960s	Hyde and Go Tweet (1960) From Hare to Heir (1960) Lighter Than Hare (1960) Putty Tat Trouble (1961) D' Fightin' Ones (1961) Rebel Without Claws (1961) The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) Prince Violent (1961) The Last Hungry Cat (1961) The Jet Cage (1962) Shishkabugs (1962) Devil's Feud Cake (1963) The Unmentionables (1963) Nuts and Volts (1964) The Pink Phink (1964) Road to Andalay (1964) The Wild Chase (1965) Cats and Bruises (1965) The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (1965) The Ant and the Aardvark (1969)

1980s	The Chocolate Chase (1980) The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)

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