Boulevardier from the Bronx

Boulevardier From The Bronx
Merrie Melodies series
Directed by	I. Freleng
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Paul Smith Cal Dalton Robert McKimson (uncredited)
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	October 10, 1936
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	8 min (one reel)
Language	English

Boulevardier from the Bronx is a 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. It is a parody of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean, and is loosely based on a song of the same name which was featured in the 1936 Warner Bros. musical film Colleen.

Plot

Big-city chicken baseball team with a cocky pitcher plays an exhibition baseball game in Hickville.

Notes

This short is the first Merrie Melodies cartoon to feature the signature theme song, Merrily We Roll Along.

Sources

Films directed by Friz Freleng

1930s	Buddy the Gob (1934) Buddy and Towser (1934) Beauty and the Beast (1934) Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name (1935) I Haven't Got a Hat (1935) My Green Fedora (1935) The Cat Came Back (1936) I'm a Big Shot Now (1936) Bingo Crosbyana (1936) Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936) Toy Town Hall (1936) Boulevardier from the Bronx (1936) The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (1936) Pigs Is Pigs (1937) The Fella with the Fiddle (1937) She Was an Acrobat's Daughter (1937) Clean Pastures (1937) The Lyin' Mouse (1937) Jungle Jitters (1938)

1940s	Confederate Honey (1940) The Hardship of Miles Standish (1940) You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940) Porky's Bear Facts (1941) Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941) Notes to You (1941) Rhapsody in Rivets (1941) The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942) Fresh Hare (1942) The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942) Ding Dog Daddy (1942) Pigs in a Polka (1943) The Fifth-Column Mouse (1943) Greetings Bait (1943) Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943) Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943) Daffy – The Commando (1943) Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944) Snafuperman (1944) Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) Duck Soup to Nuts (1944) Hare Force (1944) Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944) Payday (1944) Three Brothers (1944) Stage Door Cartoon (1944) Herr Meets Hare (1945) Life with Feathers (1945) Hare Trigger (1945) Ain't That Ducky (1945) Peck Up Your Troubles (1945) Baseball Bugs (1946) Holiday for Shoestrings (1946) Hollywood Daffy (1946) Of Thee I Sting (1946) Racketeer Rabbit (1946) Rhapsody Rabbit (1946) The Gay Anties (1947) Tweetie Pie (1947) Rabbit Transit (1947) A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947) Along Came Daffy (1947) Slick Hare (1947) Back Alley Oproar (1948) I Taw a Putty Tat (1948) Buccaneer Bunny (1948) Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948) Hare Splitter (1948) Hare Do (1949) Kit for Cat (1948) Wise Quackers (1949) High Diving Hare (1949) Curtain Razor (1949) Knights Must Fall (1949) Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949) Dough for the Do-Do (1949) Which Is Witch (1949)

1950s	Home Tweet Home (1950) Mutiny on the Bunny (1950) The Lion's Busy (1950) Big House Bunny (1950) His Bitter Half (1950) All a Bir-r-r-d (1950) Golden Yeggs (1950) Bunker Hill Bunny (1950) Canary Row (1950) Canned Feud (1951) Rabbit Every Monday (1951) A Bone for a Bone (1951) His Hare-Raising Tale (1951) The Fair-Haired Hare (1951) Room and Bird (1951) Putty Tat Trouble (1951) Tweety's S.O.S. (1951) Ballot Box Bunny (1951) Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951) Gift Wrapped (1952) Foxy by Proxy (1952) 14 Carrot Rabbit (1952) Little Red Rodent Hood (1952) Ain't She Tweet (1952) Cracked Quack (1952) A Bird in a Guilty Cage (1952) Tree for Two (1952) Hare Lift (1952) Snow Business (1953) A Mouse Divided (1953) Fowl Weather (1953) Southern Fried Rabbit (1953) Hare Trimmed (1953) Tom Tom Tomcat (1953) A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953) Catty Cornered (1953) Robot Rabbit (1953) Dog Pounded (1954) Captain Hareblower (1954) Bugs and Thugs (1954) Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954) Muzzle Tough (1954) Satan's Waitin' (1954) Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954) Goo Goo Goliath (1954) Pizzicato Pussycat (1955) Sahara Hare (1955) Sandy Claws (1955) Hare Brush (1955) Tweety's Circus (1955) This Is a Life? (1955) Hyde and Hare (1955) Speedy Gonzales (1955) Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955) Roman Legion-Hare (1955) Heir-Conditioned (1955) Tweet and Sour (1956) Rabbitson Crusoe (1956) Tree Cornered Tweety (1956) Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956) Tugboat Granny (1956) A Star Is Bored (1956) Three Little Bops (1957) Tweet Zoo (1957) Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957) Piker's Peak (1957) Birds Anonymous (1957) Bugsy and Mugsy (1957) Greedy for Tweety (1957) Show Biz Bugs (1957) Hare-Less Wolf (1958) A Pizza Tweety Pie (1958) Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) Trick or Tweet (1959) Apes of Wrath (1959) Tweet and Lovely (1959) Mexicali Shmoes (1959) Wild and Woolly Hare (1959)

1960s	Goldimouse and the Three Cats (1960) Hyde and Go Tweet (1960) From Hare to Heir (1960) Lighter Than Hare (1960) D' Fightin' Ones (1961) Rebel Without Claws (1961) The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) Prince Violent (1961) The Last Hungry Cat (1961) The Jet Cage (1962) Shishkabugs (1962) Devil's Feud Cake (1963) The Unmentionables (1963) Nuts and Volts (1964) The Pink Phink (1964) Road to Andalay (1964) The Wild Chase (1965) Cats and Bruises (1965) The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (1965) The Ant and the Aardvark (1969)

1980s	The Chocolate Chase (1980) The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)

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