Lists
TITLE PUNS
Original movies, books, plays, and musicals that Warner Bros. cartoons
got their titles from.
Thanks to Paul Penna for inspiration and most (if not all) of the
leg work in compiling this list.
"All This and Rabbit Stew"-Freleng/1941-All This And Heaven,
Too (1940)
"The Big Snooze"-Clampett/1946-The Big Sleep (1946)
"The Bird Came C.O.D."-Jones/1942-The Bride Came C.O.D.
(1941)
"The Birth of a Notion"-McKimson/1947-The Birth of
a Nation (1915)
"Boston Quackie"-McKimson/1957-various Boston Blackie
films 1941-1949 & 50s TV show
"Brother Brat"-Tashlin/1944-Brother Rat (1938)
"The Bug Parade"-Avery/1941-The Big Parade (1925)
"Calling Dr. Porky"-Freleng/1940-Calling Dr. Kildare
(1939)
"Captain Hareblower"-Freleng/1954-Captain Horatio
Hornblower (1951)
"Ceiling Hero"-Avery/1940-Ceiling Zero (1935)
"Clean Pastures"-Freleng/1937-The Green Pastures (1936)
"Confusions of a Nutzy Spy"-McCabe/1943-Confessions
of a Nazi Spy (1939)
"Design for Leaving"-McKimson/1954-Design for Living
(1933)
"D'Fightin' Ones"-Freleng/1961-The Defiant Ones (1958)
"The Dumb Patrol"-1931 & Chiniquy/1964-The Dawn
Patrol (1930)
"Each Dawn I Crow"-Freleng/1949-Each Dawn I Die (1939)
"The Fighting 69th-1/2"-Freleng/1941-The Fighting
69th (1940)
"A Hare Grows in Manhattan"-Freleng/1947-A Tree Grows
in Brooklyn (1945)
"The High and the Flighty"-McKimson/1956-The High
and the Mighty (1954)
"Hold Anything-1930-Hold Everything (1930)
"Hollywood Canine Canteen"-McKimson/1946-Hollywood
Canteen (1944)
"Into Your Dance"-Freleng/1935-Go Into Your Dance
(1935)
"Kiss Me Cat"-Jones/1953-Kiss Me Kate (1953)
"Knights Must Fall"-Freleng/1949; Night Must Fall
(1937)
"The Last Hungry Cat"-Freleng/1961-The Last Angry
Man (1959)
"The Leghorn Blows at Midnight"-McKimson/1950-The
Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
"The Major Lied Til Dawn"-Tashlin/1938-The General
Died at Dawn (1936)
"A Message to Gracias"-McKimson/1964-A Message to
Garcia (1936)
"The Mouse On 57th Street"-Jones/1961-The House On 56th Street (1933)
"Mutiny on the Bunny-Freleng/1950-Mutiny on the Bounty
(1935)
"My Favorite Duck"-Jones/1942-My Favorite Wife (1940)
"Naughty but Mice"-Jones/1939-Naughty But Nice (1939)
"Nothing but the Tooth"-Davis/1948-Nothing but the
Truth (1941)
"Of Fox and Hounds"-Avery/1940-Of Mice and Men (1939)
"Peck Up Your Troubles"-Freleng/1945-Pack Up Your
Troubles (1939)
"Rebel Without Claws"-Freleng/1961-Rebel Without a
Cause (1955)
"Snowtime for Comedy"-Jones/1941-No Time for Comedy
(1940)
"Stage Door Cartoon"-Freleng/1944-Stage Door Canteen
(1943)
"A Star Is Bored"-Freleng/1956-A Star is Born (1954)
"A Star Is Hatched"-Freleng/1938-A Star is Born (1937)
"A Street Cat Named Sylvester"-Freleng/1953-A Streetcar
Named Desire (1951)
"Strife with Father"-McKimson/1950-Life with Father
(1947)
"A Tale of Two Kitties"-Clampett/1942-A Tale of Two
Cities (1935)
"Thugs With Dirty Mugs"-Avery/1939-Angles With Dirty Faces
"Tortilla Flaps (1958); Tortilla Flat (1942)
"Tugboat Granny"-Freleng/1956-Tugboat Annie (1933)
"Two Gophers from Texas"-Davis/1948-Two Guys from
Texas (1948)
"The Wabbit Who Came to Supper"-Freleng/1942-The Man
Who Came to Dinner (1941)
"West of the Pesos"-McKimson/1960-West of the Pecos
(1934)
"What Price Porky?"-Clampett/1938-What Price Glory?
(1926)
"You Were Never Duckier"-Jones/1948-You Were Never
Lovelier (1942)
"Zoom at the Top"-Jones/1962-Room at the Top (1958)
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Last updated on 5/20/2001