Today we have big-time actors like Cameron Diaz and Tom Hanks providing the voices in animated movies.
During the 1960's , the late John Vernon, perhaps best remembered as "Dean Wormer" in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE, was the voice of IRON MAN, in the MARVEL SUPER HEROES cartoons made by Grantray-Lawrence Productions.
Of course many folks know that the great Mel Blanc performed most of the voice work in the LOONEY TUNES & MERRIE MELODIES cartoons from Warner Bros., which, while crediting Leon Schlesinger as "producer", never had much real artistic in-put from Schlesinger.
It was great directors like Bib Clampett, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob McKimson, and numerous others, who put these shorts, with Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and the rest, on the map.
As Blanc noted in his autobiography and in many college campus lectires, it was editor Tregoweth "Tregg" Brown who hired Mel to perform the voices after Mel was refused a job there many times.
If you don't recall, these animated classics say "Voice Characterizations MEL BLANC" in their opening credits, but several other people, including June Foray and Arthur Q. Bryan, also provided voices for the stable of WB characters.
The famed radio announcer Jackson Beck, known for years as the announcer on SUPERMAN on radio, was the voice of "Brutus" in many POPEYE cartoons, and narrated the TENNESSEE TUXEDO cartoons, starring the voice of Don Adams, as well.
Getting to today's quiz, here we go!!!
SUPER SIX TRIVIA: LOONS IN CARTOONS!!!
1) Name the actor who originally supplied the voice of Fred, in THE FLINTSTONES series (1960-1966).
2) Name the actor who replaced Reed in the later series, THE PEBBLES & BAMM BAMM SHOW.
3) Name the two actors who played the voice of Barney Rubble in THE FLINTSTONES.
4) Name the actor who played Wilma Flintstone, Fred's much harried spouse, in the same program.
5) Name the orignal actor who provided the voice of the much neglected character Betty Rubble in that "stone age" series.
6) Name the provider of the voice of Fred Flintstone's boss, Mr. Slate.
Answers below the "Obligatory Spoiler Space":
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1) Alan Reed. He also played the cab driver, Moe "Shrevy" Shrevnitz in the radio series THE SHADOW.
2) Henry Corden.
3) Daws Butler and Mel Blanc.
4) Jean Vander Pyl.
5) Bea Benaderet.
6) John Stephenson.
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So...if you had to answer that age-old great philosophical question -- who is sexier, Wilma or Betty? -- you would choose Betty, mais oui? ;-)
P/J
Betty was a "saucy little wench", I forget who made this comment many years ago, but it holds up today.
Betty, as this celebrity said, was just that.
I recall when we discussed the voice of Betty years ago, and, because some person at SCREEN GEMS/COLUMBIA PICTURES took the different end credits off of all the episodes of THE FLINTSTONES, and replaced them with _one set_, that listed "Gerry Johnson as Betty", from the later seasons, you were not aware that Bea Benederet, from PETTICOAT JUNCTION, was the original Betty.
Thanks to CARTOON NETWORK, _some_ of that issue has been cleared up, with at least the original opening titles and theme music, restored to the early season episodes.
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We started collecting the DVDs a couple of years ago. Until then, I had never seen the original opening titles! I still think one of my all-time favorite episodes is the one with the fred-o-copter. I also like the JL Gotrocks one an awful lot. Oh, and the Judo one. But I'll gladly take whatever Flintstones episodes can get. I really never get tired of them.
P/J
I love the judo one too, but I wonder if the DVDs censored the politically incorrect portrayal of the instructor.
In the JONNY QUEST set of DVDs, they "monkeyed" with the dialogue in an episode that had Race Bannon calling the pygmies "stupid little monkeys", or something similar.
There are a whole lot of old, and wonderful theatrical cartoons that are not allowed to be run on television for containing "inappropriate" material, such as the one where BUGS BUNNY shoots craps with a little African-American fellow, and the one where cannibals put Popeye in the pot to boil him (CHICKEN POP-PIE), and BUGS BUNNY NIPS THE NIPS.
SUNDAY AT MEETIN' TIME is another, this one concerns a young balck fellow named Nicodemus, and what happens when he decides to skip going to Church with his mother.
Tremendously inventive cartoons, but not everyone can accept that the cartoons were a prduct of their time.
Interestingly enough, when I attended a comic book convention in NYC during the mid-1970's, the BUGS BUNNY with the crap game was one of the cartoons showed for the film program, and, the audience, which had _dozens_ of black people in it, was howling with laughter at that cartoon.
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