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Looney Toones: Porky's Road Race
(USA, 1937)
 

Introduction
Porky’s Roard Race is a short from the Looney Toones series of short animated comedy films by Warner Brothers. Garbo is spoofed as ‘Woman with big feet’.

  Directed by: Friz Freleng
  Produced by: Warner Bros.
  Production company: Leon Schlesinger Studios
  Distributed by: Warner Bros.
  Release date: February 7, 1936
  Running time: 7 minutes
  Country:  United States
  Language: English

The plot
It's race day, and first prize is $2 million (less $1,999,998.37 in taxes). Porky's little car is matched against cars driven by stars of yesteryear, including Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. When the black #13 driven by "Borax Karoff" makes a bid for the finish line, can Porky fend him off?

In one scene we see Garbo’s feet as she works under her car, stating, “At last I am alone!”


GG under the car

Elvia Allman provided the voice of ‘Woman with large feet’. The short is also available in a colorized version.

 
Screencaps from the colorized version

Other caricatured celebrities are:

  1.  Men on seesaw: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
  2.  Little Tramp: Charles Chaplin
  3.  Man with big nose: W.C. Fields
  4.  Old lady: Edna May Oliver
  5.  Floating Power: Charles Laughton
  6.  Borax Karoff: Boris Karloff
  7.  Knee Action Special: Stepin Fetchit
  8.  Cheerio Special: George Arliss, Leslie Howard, Freddie Bartholomew
  9.  Caliban and Ariel: John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie
10.  Hitchhiker: Clark Gable
 

Source: IMDB and Wikipedia

 
 
  
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