Bingo Crosbyana (1936)

A classic Warner Brothers cartoon about a group of flies who live in a kitchen, one of them the caricature of Bing Crosby, singing and showing off for the swooning females. When a large spider suddenly threatens the flies, the crooner cowardly dives into a roll of wax paper, while the rest of the male flies work together to defeat the spider.

This was one of two WB cartoons (the other one was "Let It Be Me") that Bing Crosby himself filed lawsuits against for portraying him in a "defamatory" manner.

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Film & Animation

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• warner
• brothers
• animated
• cartoon

[TheFreelancer117]

They need to play these on Cartoon network instead of those crappy full of crack ones they have.

[fromthesidelines]

Eventually, the studio began satirizing Crosby again, only in "gentle" terms {a penguin caricature of him is seen singing "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" in Tex Avery's "The Penguin Parade" (1938)}. When he was seen in human (or animal) form, he was sometimes shown wearing a loud sports shirt, homburg and holding a pipe [as in "Swooner Crooner" (1944) and "Catch As Cats Can" (1947)], sometimes in tandem concerning his stable of "broken down" race horses ["Hollywood Steps Out" (1941)].

[SteveCarras]

Friz Freleng put Bing Crosby ironically in his first TV special with DFE, "Goldilocks", starring Mary Frances and also Paul Winchell!!

And of course during WWII the studio started spoofing that OTHER guy, you, know, Frankie, as Bing might have said in his calm manner, and in "Swooner Coroner" they both came out on top, only in "Catch as Cats Can", for a Bing bird to have a early Sylvester eat a Sinatra bird..

[RobbyD441]

Early works of Friz Freleng before Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, and a few others.

[WSenator1]

At 3:14 - He even stole from Al Jolson (You ain't seen nothing yet)! Is there no end to this depravity?

[bluedoris88]

gREAT! Who posts all this stuff?, movies cartoons, things I would

NEVER get to SEE ,whoever u are .. thanks , I love america, I'm assuming

your are a yank!

[KrazyKartoonKid]

@6891man That cartoon is called Streamlined Greta Green.

[6891man]

What was the name of the Merrie Melodies cartoon about a talking car that played hooky from school and got hit by a train? It must have been a 1930s cartoon with this exact same intro sequence (blue rings, Vitaphone Presents).

[vmpickle123]

@WWEChampion16 An unflattering parody, to be complete.

[SteveCarras]

@Mr76Yearsago

No, but his PREDECESSOR Rudy Vallee [who also was spoofed, equal megstar oppuertiny spoofing] WAS!