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Airdate:
7 March 1936

Series:

Merrie Melodies

MPAA Number:	Vitaphone Number:
1962	7192

Runtime:

7 minutes, 42 seconds

Copyright Renewed:

30 January 1964^[1]

Crew

Voice Characterizations:

Jackie Morrow (uncredited)
Berneice Hansell (uncredited)
Tex Avery (uncredited)
The Varsity Three (uncredited)^[2]

Director:

Tex Avery (uncredited)

Producer:

Leon Schlesinger

Animated By:

Robert Cannon
Bob Clampett
Joe D'Igalo
Chuck Jones
Virgil Ross
Sidney Sutherland
(all uncredited)

Background Artist:

John Waltz (uncredited)
Leadora Congdon

Film Editor:

Bernard B. Brown (uncredited)
Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Norman Spencer (uncredited)
Harry Warren (words and music)
Al Dubin (words and music)

Page Miss Glory is a 1936 Merrie Melodies short directed by Fred Avery.

Plot[]

A bellhop in a rural hotel waits for Miss Glory to arrive, but eventually falls asleep and dreams of attempting to meet her in a fancy art-deco hotel. When she finally arrives on a higher floor, the bellhop tries to operate the elevator but ends up falling off the roof of the hotel. His manager awakes him because the real Miss Glory has arrived, but instead of seeing a lady like he dreamed, he sees a child.

Availability[]

Censorship[]

When this short aired on New York's WNEW channel in the 1980s, the sequence where the snooty society matron's dress rips off (because the bellhop had been standing on it) and she does a fan dance with fern leaves to cover up was cut due to being too sexually suggestive for a family/child audience.^[3]

Notes[]

This cartoon is notable as the first color cartoon Tex Avery directed, as well as the first Merrie Melodie he directed. This is also the first "Merrie Melodie" not directed by Friz Freleng since "Rhythm in the Bow" two years prior (which was directed by Ben Hardaway); and the first color "Merrie Melodie" not directed by Freleng since the very first: the Cinecolor short "Honeymoon Hotel". (directed by Earl Duvall)
This is the only cartoon where the entire crew is uncredited, with the only exception being Leadora Congdon who received onscreen credit as the layout and background artist, albeit credited as the "moderne art" designer and conceptionist. However, rural caricatures of some of the Warners crew, including Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett and screenwriter Melvin Millar, appear outside the hotel at the end of the cartoon.
This short, which is still under copyright, despite the title song being public domain, is listed in copyright documents as "Miss Glory".^[4]
The film uses backgrounds and character designs largely inspired by that of Art Deco, a style of modernist visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I.^[5]
The voices in this cartoon were provided by members of the Our Gang short film series, all of whom are uncredited.
Tex Avery was dismissive of this cartoon, likely because he was uncredited and felt that the short went against his style of humor.^[6]
The society matron with the ripped dress and leaves would later reappear in the Looney Tunes Cartoons short "Daffuccino". In that appearance, she wore a teal dress instead of the yellow one she wore here.