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Wags to Riches

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Wags to Riches
Directed byTex Avery
Produced byFred Quimby
Story byJack Consgriff
Rich Hogan
StarringDon Messick
Tex Avery
William Hanna
Sara Berner
Patrick McGeehan (all uncredited)[1]
Music byScott Bradley
Animation byMichael Lah
Grant Simmons
Walter Clinton
Bob Cannon
Layouts byLouie Schmitt (uncredited)
Backgrounds byJohn Didrik Johnsen (uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • August 13, 1949 (1949-08-13)
Running time
7:02
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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Wags to Riches is a 1949 Droopy cartoon.

Plot[edit]

A millionaire with two dogs (Spike and Droopy) leaves his fortune to Droopy with the stipulation that should he be killed the entire fortune will revert to Spike. Guess what Spike is up to?

Notes[edit]

Wags to Riches marks a first appearance of Butch (here named Spike in the short).

Don Messick voices Droopy, Patrick McGeeham voices the lawyer, and Tex Avery voiced Butch, William Hanna does the providing screams (archive audio of Tom Cat screaming from Tom and Jerry) and Sara Berner providing laughs.[1]

Remade as Millionaire Droopy[edit]

Millionaire Droopy
Directed byTex Avery
Produced byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Story byJack Consgriff
Rich Hogan
StarringDon Messick
Tex Avery
William Hanna
Sara Berner
Patrick McGeehan (all uncredited)
Music byScott Bradley
Animation byMichael Lah
Grant Simmons
Walter Clinton
Bob Cannon
Layouts byEd Benedict (uncredited)
Backgrounds byDon Driscoll
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • September 21, 1956 (1956-09-21)
Running time
6:37
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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William Hanna and Joseph Barbera remake the cartoon in 1956.[2] Tex Avery would make one last cartoon Cat's Meow before he left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio.

Differences from the original and remake[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 ""Hello All You Happy Tax Payers": Tex Avery's Voice Stock Company". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  2. "Tex Avery Filmography". www.texavery.com. Retrieved 1 November 2020.

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