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unusual facts about The Pink Panther


Monica Mancini

Included in her performance were 'It Had Better Be Tonight', from the film The Pink Panther, and 'Two for the Road'.


7 Park Avenue

Golders Green is a community in London, England, probably most known for the Golders Green Crematorium which is the final resting place for many famous Brits including The Who drummer Keith Moon, famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and comedic actor Peter Sellers, star of the 1960s Pink Panther movies.

André Maranne

Born in Toulouse, France, Maranne's most prominent recurring role was Sergeant François Chevalier in six of The Pink Panther films, alongside Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom.

Fran Jeffries

She had a cameo in the 1963 film The Pink Panther, in which she sang a song called "Meglio Stasera (It Had Better Be Tonight)" while she danced provocatively around a fireplace.

Jack Rickard

He created the poster art for two Sidney Poitier movies, Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again, and for two Peter Sellers films, the 1963 film The Pink Panther and the 1974 Soft Beds, Hard Battles (a.k.a. Party for Hitler and Undercovers Hero).

Mirisch Films

Originally founded in 1962, it was best known for producing The Pink Panther series of films (which feature Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau), and various DePatie-Freleng animated cartoons, before shutting down in 1982.

Pink Panther and Pals

The Little Man has been renamed to "Big Nose" for this series with vocal effects provided by Alex Nussbaum.

Pink Tuba-Dore

In a quaint village in the Swiss Alps, the little white man's incessant tuba-playing results in the entire community threatening to evict him.

The Pink Panther Show

Henry Mancini composed "The Pink Panther Theme" for the live action films, which would be used prominently in the cartoon series as well.


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Owens Corning

The company was referred to several times in the Family Guy episode "The Former Life of Brian" when the Pink Panther dies from his body being one-third Owens-Corning Fiberglass Insulation.

Pink DaVinci

The Pink Panther is strolling the streets of Italy when he spots Leonardo da Vinci painting what appears to be his newest masterpiece, the Mona Lisa.

Pink Pajamas

Having never seen the Pink Panther before, the homeowner is convinced that he is hallucinating, and phones Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).

Pink Piper

The Pink Panther is a traveling Pied Piper of Hamelin who encounters an old English village home besieged by pesky rodents.

Pinknic

The plot of the cartoon, which involves a mouse wanting to eat the Pink Panther for dinner, was recycled from Friz Freleng's 1953 cartoon Snow Business.

Swell Foop

The title is taken from a spoonerism for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," first spoken by the tongue-twisted Peter Sellers character in the 1964 movie The Pink Panther.

The Pink Phink

In the 2009 series Pink Panther and Pals, a scene from "A Pinker Tomorrow" in which the Pink Panther tricks the Little Man (Big Nose) to cover the outside of the house in paint, is homage to the original short.

The Return of the Pink Panther

Richard Williams, the creator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Thief and the Cobbler, and Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, did the animated open and close titles for this picture and The Pink Panther Strikes Again, due to DePatie-Freleng's work on the Pink Panther shorts and other cartoon projects for TV and film.