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4 unusual facts about Leon Schlesinger


Leon Schlesinger

He then secured a contract with the studio to produce its brand-new Looney Tunes series, and he signed animators Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to create these cartoons with their Bosko character as the star.

On another occasion, he boycotted the Academy Awards for what he claimed was preferential treatment for the Walt Disney and MGM cartoon studios.

Pacific Title and Art

Pacific Title & Art Studio is an American company founded in 1919 by Leon Schlesinger, where most of his business was producing title cards for silent films.

Spooney Melodies

This series was replaced with an animation only series called Merrie Melodies in 1931, also produced by Leon Schlesinger.


Goofy Groceries

Bearing a similar premise to such earlier WB shorts as Speaking of the Weather and Have You Got Any Castles? but having a cast inspired by food products instead of magazines or books, the cartoon was written by Melvin Millar, directed by Robert Clampett, and produced by Leon Schlesinger.

Martha Sigall

Sigall moved to California from Buffalo, New York, in 1926 and by chance lived around the corner from Leon Schlesinger's Pacific Title and Art company.

Mel Shaw

Shaw began his career in entertainment industry as a silent film title card creator at Pacific Title and Art, a company owned by film producer, Leon Schlesinger.


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David H. DePatie

In 1957, John W. Burton became production executive for a few years until Burton accepted a position of another company that Leon Schlesinger founded called Pacific Title and Art.