Get Lost, Droopy

Droopy is a pest, as far as the bull is concerned in Señor Droopy (1949). First, the bull pushes him aside with a hoof with the laugh Tex Avery voiced in other cartoons. Next, he twists Droopy’s montera (hat) like a wind-up toy to send him away. Then he turns Droopy’s cape on a stick (don’t ask me where the stick came from) into sail and blows him away.

Then, Droopy returns. “It’s me again.”



Droopy interrupts the bull's self-congratulation and tries again. The tail turns into a hand.



Droopy rolls away grasping his copy of Filmland magazine. He gives up the bullfight, and resigns himself to not winning the hand (or lap, as it turned out) of singer and starlet Lina Romay.

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But the bull makes Droopy mad by drawing a moustache and Van Dyke beard on Romay's picture and laughing uproariously. End of bull.



End of cartoon.

Grant Simmons, Bobe Cannon, Walt Clinton, Mike Lah and Preston Blair animated this short.

Romay had a busy 1949. She was signed to play a nightclub singer in The Big Wheel with Mickey Rooney, Hattie McDaniel and Dick “Whoa Nellie!” Lane for United Artists and The Lady Takes a Sailor for Warners with Eve Arden, Fred Clark and Bill Frawley. She was also injured in a car crash in May.

Yes, she did appear on a bill with herself. A theatre in Lake Elsinore, California booked the cartoon with West of Laramie.

To the right is an article from the August 1948 issue of Home Movies about the cartoon.

Incidentally, Romay was born in Brooklyn and lived in California.