6\" Tex Avery Demons Merveilles Droopy Dog, The Wolf, Girl Red Bookend Set of Two For Sale

Tex Avery Extremely Rare Bookend Set
Tex Avery\'s most famous characters: The Wolf, The Girl & Droopy all in action togetherComplete Set of Two - Very hard to find
Made by Demons & Merveilles, from France
Turner Entertainment
Hand painted resin statues / figurines
Terrific detail depicting each character\'s personality
Bookends measures 6\" Tall x 5\" Long x 3.75\" Wide (inches)
Have a non slip padding on the bottom so they stay in place when used as bookends
These are from my personal collection - they were displayed in a glass display case
Still like new
Original box for the Droopy Wolf bookend is included included. I do not have the box for the wolf & Girl bookendDroopy is an animated cartoon character from the Golden Age of American Animation: an anthropomorphic dog with a droopy face, hence the name Droopy. He was created in 1943 by Tex Avery for theatrical cartoon shorts produced by the MGM Studios.
The character first appeared, nameless, in Avery\'s 1943 cartoon Dumb-Hounded . Though he would not be called \"Droopy\" onscreen until his fifth cartoon, Señor Droopy (1949), the character was officially first labeled Happy Hound, a name used in the character\'s appearances in Our Gang Comics. After the demise of the Droopy series in 1958, the character has been revived several times for new productions, often television shows also featuring MGM\'s other famous cartoon stars, Tom & Jerry.Red, a night club singer-dancer closely resembled one of the top pin-up girls at the time, Lana Turner. She is considered an amalgamation of the then popular Hollywood stars. Her singing voice in the \"Red Hot Riding Hood\" short was reminiscent of Lena Horne\'s, while her speaking voice emulated that of Katharine Hepburn.
The wolf, a Tex Avery character and is the basis for the Mask character. Jim Carrey is the mask / wolf and Cameron Diaz is another Tex Avery character know as The Girl or Red.The Wolf and Red are also inspiration for the Roger Rabbit movie. HISTORY: Red Hot Riding Hood is an animated cartoon, directed by Tex Avery and released on May 8, 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1994 it was voted #7 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field, making it the highest ranked MGM cartoon on the list. It is one of Avery\'s most popular cartoons, inspiring several of his own \"sequel\" shorts as well as influencing other cartoons and feature films for years afterward. The most famous element is the musical scene where Red performs and \"Wolfie\", as she calls him, reacts in highly lustful wild takes. Those reactions were considered so energetic that the censors at the time demanded cuts in this scene and others. The famous scene of The Wolf reacting lustfully in the club was directly referenced in The Mask where Stanley Ipkiss goes to the Coco Bongo club as the Mask. Seated at a similar table, he reacts to his first sight of Cameron Diaz\'s torch-singer character Tina Carlyle (who is very similar to Red) by mimicking many of the same cartoonish \"wild takes\" (achieved through the use of CGI), and his head even morphs into that of a cartoon wolf when he wolf-whistles and howls before bashing himself on the head with a mallet. There is also an early scene where The Mask\'s wimpy alter ego, Stanley Ipkiss (played by Jim Carrey) pops in a cartoon video, which shows this cartoon (on the part where the Wolf is lustfully reacting to Red singing \"Daddy\") and is yelled at by his landlady, Mrs. Peenman, after laughing at it. **( I got my Information for the history part of my description from Wikipedia, which gives credit to Corliss, Richard (August 8, 1994). \"CINEMA: Like the Mask?\". Time.)