A Self-Made Mongrel
About A Self-Made Mongrel
A rich man collects a street mutt, Dogface, by limousine and starts calling him Baby. A scalding bath and a bonnet in a baby carriage make the dog insist he is a watchdog, not an infant. The owner turns that boast into cops and robbers and dresses as a burglar. A real thief who looks like him dumps Dogface in a trash can and hauls the mansion off on a house-moving truck. Dog and master drop into the empty cellar; the man play-shoots his pet, and Dogface stretches out with a lily on his chest.
Cast & crew
More about A Self-Made Mongrel
Carl Meyer wrote this Noveltoon. Dave Tendlar and John Walworth animated it, and Dan Gordon and Tendlar are both named as directors. Gordon had already left the studio, so the short was held and released later.
Themes
Making
It is Dan Gordon's last Famous Studios short. The picture sat after he left and reached theaters on June 29, 1945.
Music
Winston Sharples arranged the score for an RCA mono track.
Preservation
An NTA television print survives. National Telefilm Associates did not renew the copyright, and the short entered the U.S. public domain in 1974.
Notes
- The title plays on the phrase "a self-made man.
- Dogface's first cartoon. He comes back only in A Mutt in a Rut (1949).
- Jackson Beck speaks Dogface. Jack Mercer speaks the master.
- Some public-domain discs open on the 1935 Color Classics mountain instead of Paramount's jack-in-the-box.
Scenes
- Dogface slides on a waxed floor, then comes out of an overheated bath.
- He produces a Holmes hat and pipe and claims he has already caught public enemy number 100.
- The thief drives the whole house away while dog and master sit in the bare basement.
Also available
- DVD: 300 Cartoon Classics (2011, Image Entertainment)
Quotes
Baby, what's cookin'?
Well, it ain't broccoli!
I didn't know it was loaded.
