Quentin Quail

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Quentin Quail

Merrie Melodies series

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Directed by Chuck Jones
Produced by Edward Selzer
Voices by Bea Benaderet
Tedd Pierce
Music by Carl Stalling
Animation by Basil Davidovich
Ken Harris
Lloyd Vaughan
Ben Washam
Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures
Release date(s) March 2, 1946 (USA)
Color process Technicolor
Running time 7 mins
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Quentin Quail is a screwball animated cartoon, part of the Merrie Melodies series. It presents a tale about a quail (voiced by Tedd Pierce) who goes through various trials and tribulations to try to get a worm for his baby, Toots (a take-off on Fanny Brice's radio character, Baby Snooks), only to be rebuffed by her because the worm looks like Frank Sinatra.

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The name "Quentin Quail" is a not-very-subtle play on the expression "San Quentin Quail", although the meaning of that term, an underage girl ("jail bait"), has nothing to do with the cartoon's plot line.[1]

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