Señorella and the Glass Huarache is a 1964 Looney Tunes short directed by Hawley Pratt.
Plot[]
At a cantina, a man tells his friend a Mexican version of "Cinderella". Leetle Señorella's "strapmother" and her "strapsiblings" make her do all their dirty work. They won't let her go to Prince Don Jose Miguel's big fiesta, but her fairy godmother comes through with a gorgeous wardrobe and a beautiful "transporte" drawn by a team of mules, formerly cockroaches. At the fiesta, the prince is bored out of his mind while the girls, including Senorella's strapsiblings, who dance to impress him. However, he immediately becomes smitten when he sees Señorella. She and Prince Don Jose tango the night away, and his father, Don Miguel, is happy. However at midnight Señorella vamooses, leaving her glass huarache, a Mexican sandal, behind.
Prince Don Jose has every girl in the kingdom try on the glass huarache, hoping to find the mysterious princess he fell in love with. However, none of the girls' feet fit the tiny shoe. Before arriving at the house, the strapmother intentionally tosses a tied up Señorella outside in the mud with the pigs out of fear that she'll be revealed as the mysterious princess and win Don Jose's love. Both her daughters try the shoe, but their feet are too big. Prince Don Jose sees a small foot sticking out from the window and he goes to it. He places the huarache on the foot and it fits. Señorella and Don Jose are married. The man revealed that her story may have ended happily ever after, but his didn't. When his friend asks him what happened to the strapmother, the man reveals that he married her. This proves to be true and she forcibly takes him home.
Availability[]
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5 Disc Two
Notes[]
- "Señorella and the Glass Huarache" marks several milestones for the classic Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series.
- This was the last cartoon released by the original Warner Bros. studio (albeit not the last produced, as that distinction goes to "False Hare"). The studio would re-open in 1964 for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and again in 1967 for Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
- This is also the last one-shot Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon until 1968's "Flying Circus", alongside the last one-shot produced at Termite Terrace before it closed down in 1963.
- This was the final cartoon that Treg Brown did solo film editing for, having worked on every Warner Bros. cartoon editing sounds since "Buddy's Day Out". He would work on one more cartoon at DFE, "Moby Duck" (with Lee Gunther), before retiring.
- Chuck Jones' ending sequence from "Now Hear This" and "Bartholomew Versus the Wheel" was used in this cartoon. As it is the final cartoon at the original studio, all further cartoons retain the opening and closing sequence starting with "Pancho's Hideaway". In later cartoons, the closing titles swap out the sounds of Big Ben and the bicycle horn to a shortened version of the opening theme, and the background would be changed from white to black starting with "Road to Andalay". It was eventually redone with a new arrangement of the opening theme for the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts era.
- When the cartoon was shown on television anthology programs such as The Merrie Melodies Show, the title was misspelled as Señorella and the Glass Hurache.
- This cartoon seldom airs on American television due to the heavy Mexican stereotyping. However, it was part of the package sent to Nickelodeon, and also aired on The Merrie Melodies Show, and has aired on international Cartoon Network and Boomerang feeds outside the United States. More recently, it has also aired on MeTV.
- This is one of only two cartoons entirely directed by Hawley Pratt, the other being "Hollywood Daffy" from 1946.
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