CHARLES LAUGHTON ON WB CARTOONS

I thought maybe because Laughton was a Warner Bros. performer. But Mutiny on the Bounty was an MGM film.

WB did a lot with Humphrey Bogart, who was under contract. He was a central character in Slick Hare, where he menacingly demands rabbit (guess who) for dinner. A delighted Bugs hops on the plate when he finds out the rabbit is for Lauren Bacall. Bogie is also his very lifelike self in 8 Ball Bunny, with Bugs and Playboy Penguin. "Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?"

What's interesting with Bogart is that is not his voice in the cartoons. T

Dave Barry's first film was the 1938 animated short Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, in which he imitated several Hollywood stars, including Humphrey Bogart, whom Barry also imitated in Bacall to Arms, Slick Hare and 8 Ball Bunny.

Thanks for this ..had never heard of this Dave Barry.  Have heard Barry's voice many times but, like many talented people in the movie business, he was nameless to me. 

BACALL TO ARMS
The auditorium of a movie theater is crowded with animals in human clothes, eagerly waiting for the film to start. The show opens with a newsreel called Warmer News. It presents the implementation of war to peace time use. With the help of radar the father of a family can detect the approach of his mother-in-law, and hide the entire house before she arrives. During the newsreel a wolf in the auditorium falls asleep, but when the feature starts, he quickly awakens. The feature presents the two stars Bogey Gocart and Laurie Bee Cool in "To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have". When Laurie in the film asks "Anybody have a light?", the wolf in the audience gets randy. And when she continues: "You only have to whistle", the wolf starts whistling loudly. Full of excitement he jumps on to the narrow stage in front of the movie. Bogey Gocart sees the wolf and shoots him through the screen.




More about Barry ….
Dave Barry began his performing career in the 1930s at the age of sixteen. The son of a furniture store owner, he made his debut on the radio talent show "Major Bowes and the Original Amateur Hour" -- as did another talented voice-over artist, Sara Berner. Known initially as Dave Siegel, he built up a reputation as a stand-up comedian, entertaining troops during his military service in World War II and later became something of a fixture in Las Vegas at the Desert Inn and the El Rancho Hotel. For eight years, he provided the opening act for Wayne Newton. Barry was also a frequent guest on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) and appeared in occasional motion pictures, most visibly in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959) (as band manager Beinstock). Since he excelled at mimicry and mastered a variety of accents and dialects, he was often sought after as a voice actor for animation by both Columbia and Warner Brothers. His special forte was imitating distinctive celebrities (including Groucho Marx, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, James Cagney and Clark Gable), which he did with gusto in a number of Looney Tunes cartoons. Barry also provided the voice for Popeye's nemesis, Bluto, in three short films between 1942 and 1944. He voiced Elmer Fudd in Pre-Hysterical Hare (1958), standing in for Arthur Q. Bryan. Voice-overs, inevitably, came second to his primary vocation as a comedian. He continued to do stand-up well into the 1990's, plying his craft in Las Vegas, on cruise ships and with The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies in California.

HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT (1941)
No Laughton but many others of the day 

Back then, you knew you had made it in Hollywood if WB did a caricature of you in a Looney Tunes cartoon. It was the highest compliment.