Scrappily Married
About Scrappily Married
Henry the rooster tries to sneak out, and his wife Chickenpie catches him and orders him to sit on the eggs. Herman the mouse wanders in, Chickenpie takes one look and flees, and Henry hires the mouse to keep her away. She comes back dressed as a cat. When the costume fails she sends a real cat. Herman cages that cat and returns in time to scare her off again.
Cast & crew
More about Scrappily Married
Seymour Kneitel directed the Noveltoon. Bill Turner and Jack Ward wrote it. Paramount released it on March 30, 1945. The MPAA number is 3856, and a print runs 7 minutes 16 seconds.
Themes
Making
Herman had debuted the year before in The Henpecked Rooster. Here he is hired muscle for another henpecked bird. The short is Technicolor, 35mm, with an RCA mono track.
Music
Winston Sharples arranged the music, including "Jingle Jangle Jingle."
Preservation
The title card reads Copyright MCMXLV by Paramount Pictures, Inc. NTA did not renew it, and the short entered the U.S. public domain on January 1, 1974. The HD copy comes from Thunderbean's 2019 Blu-ray.
Notes
- The title plays on "happily married.
- Arnold Stang voices Herman, Chickenpie, and some of Henry's lines. Jack Mercer is the rest of Henry. Mae Questel supplies a scream from a queen card.
- First Noveltoon with a Featuring card and a fanfare for the star.
- Second-to-last short to use the original models of Henry the Rooster and Bertha Henpeck. Later cartoons redraw both.
- The score quotes Frank Loesser and Joseph J. Lilley's "Jingle Jangle Jingle.
Scenes
- Chickenpie orders Henry onto the eggs and he hates it.
- She dresses as a cat to frighten Herman and then calls in a real one.
- Herman traps the cat in a cage and scares her off a second time.
Also available
- DVD: Noveltoons Original Classics (2012, Thunderbean Animation)
- DVD: 300 Cartoon Classics (2011, Image Entertainment)
- Blu-ray: Noveltoons Original Classics (2019, Thunderbean Animation)
