Tag: Mel Blanc


June 09, 2011 | 3:06 p.m.

‘Looney Tunes’: Mel Blanc’s voice will return to theaters with 3-D cartoons

Looney Tunes
“Th-th-th-that’s all folks?” Well, maybe not … Lee Margulies reports at 24 Frames that in the near future Warner Bros. will use today’s technology to return in a big way to the studio’s cartoon past. An excerpt from his post: Warner Bros. is producing three new 3-D cartoons with its classic Looney Tunes characters to show in theaters before the studio’s movies — two of them featuring the talent of legendary voice actor Mel Blanc, who has been dead for nearly 22 years. Blanc, who for decades provided the voices of such beloved characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird, will be heard again via two recordings he made in the 1950s, the studio said Wednesday. One of them, “I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat,” performed in the voice of Tweety, sold millions of copies when it ...
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