I Wanna Be a Sailor
About I Wanna Be a Sailor
Mama Parrot drills the children on "Polly want a cracker." Peter wants to be a sailor like his father. She tells him the father sailed for Hawaii, or Catalina, as soon as the children were born, and was no good. Peter leaves anyway, makes a boat from a barrel, and takes a talking duckling. A storm hits the lake. The duck likes it. Peter yells for help. Mama runs, but the duck has already pulled him out. He still wants to be a sailor.
Cast & crew
More about I Wanna Be a Sailor
Fred Avery directed this Merrie Melodies short, the 83rd in the series, for Leon Schlesinger. Warner Bros. released it on September 25, 1937. Carl W. Stalling wrote the music. Robert Winkler voices Peter Parrot. Mel Blanc is Dizzy Duck. Elvia Allman is the mother. Billy Bletcher is the father. A 1949 Blue Ribbon reissue dropped the original credits. United Artists, then owner through Associated Artists Productions, did not renew the copyright in 1966.
Themes
Music
Carl W. Stalling scored the short.
Preservation
The original credits are lost with the 1949 Blue Ribbon reissue. The reissue print is in the public domain.
Notes
- The father says Catalina, not Hawaii, in the argument Mama repeats.
- Danny Webb supplies Peter's line "I am a man," reused from Egghead Rides Again.
- Tommy Bond voices Patrick Parrot and Bernice Hansen voices Patricia.
- The original title card is gone with the 1949 reissue. What circulates is the Blue Ribbon copy.
- It is the oldest Warner color cartoon now in the public domain.
Scenes
- Mama's story of the father who left for Catalina.
- The duck saves Peter in the storm, and Peter still wants the sea.
