Sheep Shape
About Sheep Shape
Wolfie is broke and stuck outside a nightclub whose sign promises thirty beautiful girls and no cover. He reads that Blackie the lamb has inherited $10,000 meant for the local orphans, and he takes the money. At the club a vamp of a singer separates him from it. In the dressing room the singer is Blackie, who clobbers the wolf and leaves with the cash.
Cast & crew
More about Sheep Shape
Isadore Sparber directed, Dave Tendlar animated, and Joe Stultz wrote the story. A Technicolor Noveltoon, released by Paramount on June 28, 1946.
Themes
Making
The club marquee reads "30 Beautiful Girls. No Cover." Blackie does not stop the wolf on the road. He waits in the dressing room in the singer's costume.
Music
Winston Sharples arranged the score. Cue sheets include "Cielito Lindo," "Go In and Out the Window," and Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh's "I'm in the Mood for Love."
Preservation
An NTA television print survives, and the short was not renewed. Later discs include GoodTimes' Cartoon Scandals tape and ClassicFlix's Famous Studios Champion Collection.
Notes
- The title puns on shipshape.
- Arnold Stang is Blackie. Sid Raymond plays Wolfie for the first time, taking over from Stang. Jackson Beck is the owner of the El Clipo club.
- Raymond's wolf borrows Bert Lahr's voice.
- The nightclub wolf-and-singer routine follows Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) without copying the story.
- NTA never renewed the 1946 copyright, which is why a tape like GoodTimes' Cartoon Scandals could carry it.
Scenes
- Wolfie reads about Blackie's inheritance and takes it.
- He falls for the singer under a sign offering thirty girls and no cover.
- In the dressing room the singer is Blackie, and the money goes back.
Influenced by
- Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
Also available
- VHS: Cartoon Scandals (1987, GoodTimes Entertainment)
- DVD: 300 Cartoon Classics (2011, Image Entertainment)
- Blu-ray: Famous Studios Champion Collection (ClassicFlix)
