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{{short description|American film director (1913–1972)}}

{{Infobox person
| name               = Frank Tashlin
| birth_name         = Francis Fredrick von Taschlein
| image              = Frank Tashlin.jpg
| caption            = 
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1913|2|19|mf=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Weehawken, New Jersey]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1972|5|5|1913|2|19|mf=y}}
| death_place        = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| occupation         = [[Animator]], [[comics artist]], [[children's writer]], [[illustrator]], [[screenwriter]], [[film director]]
| years_active       = 1929–1972
| employer           = [[Fleischer Studios]] (1929–1930)<ref name="michaelbarrier.com"/><br />[[Van Beuren Studios]] (1930–1933)<br />[[Ub Iwerks|Ub Iwerks Studio]] (1933–1935)<br />[[Warner Bros. Cartoons]] (1933–1934, 1936–1938, 1942–1944)<br />[[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] (1938–1941)<br />[[Screen Gems#Animation studio (1921–49)|Screen Gems]] (1941–1942)
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Dorothy Hill]]|1936|1949|reason=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Mary Costa]]|1953|1966|reason=divorced}}
}}
| children           = 2<ref>{{Cite news |date=1972-05-09 |title=FRANK TASHLININ, MOVIE DIRECTOR |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/09/archives/frank-tashlin59-movie-diregtor-master-of-slapstick-dead-mde-jerry.html |access-date=2023-01-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
| other_names        = Frank Tash<br />Tish Tash
}}
'''Frank Tashlin''' (born '''Francis Fredrick von Taschlein''', February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), also known as '''Tish Tash''' and '''Frank Tash''',<ref name="lambiek.net">{{cite web| url = https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tashlin_frank.htm| title = Frank Tashlin |work=Lambiek Comiclopedia}}</ref> was an American [[animator]] and filmmaker. He was best known for his work on the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' series of animated shorts for [[Warner Bros. Cartoons|Warner Bros.]], as well as his work as a director of live-action [[comedy film]]s.

==Animator and brief career as cartoonist==
[[File:The Chow Hound.ogv|left|thumb|''[[The Chow Hound]]'', [[Private Snafu]] cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin in 1944]] 
Born in [[Weehawken, New Jersey]], Tashlin drifted from job to job after dropping out of high school in [[New Jersey]] at age 13.<ref>Lenburg, Jeff. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FVShFCjVzvIC&pg=PA333 ''Who's who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film & Television's Award-winning and Legendary Animators''], p. 333. [[Hal Leonard Corporation]], 2006. {{ISBN|9781557836717}}. Accessed April 28, 2017. "Tashlin, Frank b: February 19, 1913, Weehawken, New Jersey; d: May 5, 1972, Hollywood, California."</ref> In 1930, he began working for [[John Foster (cartoonist)|John Foster]] as a cartoonist on the ''[[Aesop's Fables]]'' cartoon series, then worked briefly for [[Van Beuren Studios|Amadee J. Van Beuren]], but he was just as much a drifter in his animation career as he had been as a teenager.<ref name="Seife/2012/Tashlin">{{cite book |last1=Seife |first1=Ethan de |title=Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin |date=16 April 2012 |publisher=[[Wesleyan University Press]] |location=[[Middletown, CT]] |isbn=978-0-8195-7241-7 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/13556 |access-date=6 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Tashlin joined [[Leon Schlesinger]]'s [[Warner Bros. Cartoons|cartoon studio]] at [[Warner Bros.]] as an animator in 1933, where he was known as a fast animator. He used his free time to start his own [[comic strip]] in 1934 called ''Van Boring'', inspired by former boss Van Beuren, which ran for three years.<ref name="strippersguide/van-boring">{{cite web |title=Obscurity of the Day: Van Boring |url=http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2008/09/obscurity-of-day-van-boring.html |website=Stripper's Guide |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref><ref>[https://www.facebook.com/pages/Van-Boring-He-Never-Says-a-Word/108739165850755 Van-Boring-He-Never-Says-a-Word]  –  [[Facebook]] fan page</ref> He signed his comic strip "Tish Tash", and used the same name for his cartoon credits (at the time it was considered extremely unprofessional to use anything except one's birth name among animators, but Tashlin was able to get away with this due to the anti-Germanic feelings of that era).<ref name="bampfa/nonsense-tashlin">{{cite web |title=American Nonsense: Frank Tashlin |url=https://bampfa.org/program/american-nonsense-frank-tashlin |website=[[BAMPFA]] |date=21 December 2014 |access-date=6 March 2023}} [https://jclarkedit.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/clark_pfa_2008_tashlin.pdf PDF]</ref> Tashlin was fired from the studio when he refused to give Schlesinger a cut of his comic strip revenues. He joined the [[Ub Iwerks]] studio in 1934.<ref name="lambiek.net"/> He moved to [[Hal Roach]]'s studio in 1935 as a writer.

He returned to Schlesinger in 1936 as an animation director, where his diverse interest and knowledge of the industry brought a new understanding of camerawork to the Warners directors. "He used all different kinds of camera angles, montages, and pan shots, vertical and horizontal."<ref name="Sigall2">Sigall (2005), p. 71</ref> He directed 16 or 17 shorts from 1936 to 1938. He was making $150 a week. At one point he had an argument with studio manager Henry Binder and resigned. In 1938, he worked for [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]] in the story department, where he made 50 dollars a week.<ref name="Sigall2"/><ref name="sensesofcinema/tashlin">{{cite news |last1=Seife |first1=Ethan de |title=Tashlin, Frank |url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/tashlin/ |access-date=6 March 2023 |work=[[Senses of Cinema]]}}</ref>

Afterward, he served as production manager at [[Columbia Pictures]]' [[Screen Gems#Animation studio (1921–49)|Screen Gems]] animation studio in 1941. He effectively ran the studio and hired many former Disney staffers who had left as a result of the [[Disney animators' strike]]. He launched [[The Fox and the Crow (animated characters)|The Fox and the Crow]] series, one of the better products of the studio. He was fired over an argument with the executives of Columbia.<ref name="Sigall3"/>

Tashlin rejoined the Warner directors of "Termite Terrace" in 1942.<ref name="Sigall3">Sigall (2005), pp. 71&ndash;72</ref> One of his directorial efforts was ''[[Porky Pig's Feat]]'' (1943), the final black-and-white appearance of [[Porky Pig]].<ref name="Sigall3"/> He stayed with the studio during [[World War II]] and worked on numerous wartime shorts, including the ''[[Private Snafu]]'' educational films. Shortly after he left Warner Bros. in late 1944, he directed some stop-motion puppet films for [[John Sutherland (producer)|John Sutherland]] in 1946.<ref name="michaelbarrier.com">{{cite web |title=Interviews: Frank Tashlin |url=http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/Tashlin/tashlin_interview.htm |website=MichaelBarrier.com |access-date=6 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218112859/http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/Tashlin/tashlin_interview.htm |archive-date=18 December 2022}}</ref> [[Robert McKimson]] took over his unit after his departure from the studio.

His only [[Bugs Bunny]] shorts were ''[[The Unruly Hare]]'' and ''[[Hare Remover]]''. The latter was also his last credit at Warner Bros.<ref name="Sigall4">Sigall (2005), p. 73</ref>

[[Martha Sigall]] described him as "Here today, gone tomorrow. Now you see him, now you don't. That was Frank Tashlin, who would be working at Leon Schlesinger's one day, and, suddenly, gone the next day."<ref name="Sigall">Sigall (2005), p. 70</ref>

==Film director and writer==
Tashlin moved on from animation in 1946 to become a gag writer for the [[Marx Brothers]], [[Lucille Ball]], and others, and as a screenwriter for stars such as [[Bob Hope]] and [[Red Skelton]]. His live-action films still echo elements of his animation background;<ref name="lambiek.net"/> Tashlin peppered them with unlikely [[sight gag]]s, breakneck pacing, and unexpected plot twists.

Tashlin began his career directing feature films when he was asked to finish directing the 1951 film ''[[The Lemon Drop Kid]]'' starring Bob Hope.

Beginning with the 1956 film ''[[The Girl Can't Help It]]'', with its satirical look at early rock and roll,<ref name="tcmdb/Frank-Tashlin/">{{cite web |title=Frank Tashlin |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/189181%7C54099/Frank-Tashlin/ |website=[[tcmdb]] |publisher=tcm.com |access-date=6 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Tashlin had a streak of commercial successes with the [[Martin and Lewis]] film ''[[Hollywood or Bust]]'' in 1956, ''[[Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?]]'' in 1957, which, like 1956's ''[[The Girl Can't Help It]]'', starred actress and ''[[Playboy]]'' model [[Jayne Mansfield]], and six of [[Jerry Lewis]]' early solo films (''[[Rock-A-Bye Baby (film)|Rock-A-Bye Baby]]'', ''[[The Geisha Boy]]'', ''[[Cinderfella]]'', ''[[It's Only Money]]'', ''[[Who's Minding the Store?]]'', and ''[[The Disorderly Orderly]]'').

Moreover, in the 1950s Tashlin came to the approving attention of French film magazine ''[[Cahiers du Cinéma]]'', in reviews that the director dismissed as "all this philosophical double-talk." Also, the broad, colorful satire of [[Madison Avenue]] advertising in ''Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?'' earned the film a place on the [[National Film Registry]] in 2000. In 2014, his stop-motion animation short ''[[The Way of Peace (film)|The Way of Peace]]'' was also added to the Registry.

In the 1960s, Tashlin's films lost some of their spark, and his career ended in the latter part of that decade, along with those of most of the stars with whom he had worked. His final film was ''[[The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell]]'' starring Bob Hope and [[Phyllis Diller]] in 1968.

==Author==
Tashlin wrote and illustrated three books, ''[[The Bear That Wasn't]]'' (1946), ''The Possum That Didn't'' (1950), and ''The World That Isn't'' (1951).<ref name="Sigall4"/> These are often referred to as "children's books" although all contained satirical elements; ''The Bear That Wasn't'' was adapted as an animated cartoon by Tashlin's former Warner Bros. colleague, [[Chuck Jones]], in 1967.<ref name="lambiek.net"/> Another children's story which Tashlin wrote in 1949 was recorded by [[Spike Jones]]: ''How the Circus Learned to Smile''. Tashlin also wrote and self-published an instructional booklet entitled ''How to Create Cartoons'' (about cartoon drawing, not animation) in 1952.

==Death==
Tashlin died<ref name="nyrb/frank-tashlin">{{cite news |title=Frank Tashlin |url=https://www.nyrb.com/collections/frank-tashlin |access-date=6 March 2023 |work=[[New York Review Books]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name="britannica/Frank-Tashlin">{{cite web |title=Frank Tashlin |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Tashlin |website=[[Britannica]] |access-date=6 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="nytimes/1972/05/28/tashlin">{{cite news |last1=Bogdanovich |first1=Peter |author1-link=Peter Bogdanovich |title=Frank Tashlin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/28/archives/frank-tashlin.html |access-date=6 March 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=28 May 1972}}</ref> at [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]] in Los Angeles after being stricken with a [[coronary thrombosis]] three days before at his Beverly Hills home. He is buried at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]] in [[Glendale, California]].

==Filmography==
===Cartoon shorts===
{| class="wikitable unsortable"
|-  
! Year
! Title
! Notes
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1936
| ''[[Porky's Poultry Plant]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Little Beau Porky]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Porky in the North Woods]]''
|
|-
| rowspan="8"| 1937
| ''[[Porky's Road Race]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Porky's Romance]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Porky's Building]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Porky's Railroad]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Speaking of the Weather]]''
|
|-
| ''[[The Case of the Stuttering Pig]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Porky's Double Trouble]]''
|
|-
| ''[[The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos]]''
|
|-
| rowspan="10"| 1938
| ''[[Porky at the Crocadero]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Now That Summer Is Gone]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Porky the Fireman]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Have You Got Any Castles?]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Porky's Spring Planting]]''
|
|-
| ''[[The Major Lied 'Til Dawn]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Wholly Smoke]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Cracked Ice]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Little Pancho Vanilla]]''
|
|-
| ''[[You're an Education]]''
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1941
| ''The Fox and the Grapes''
|First animated short with Screen Gems and Columbia
|-
| ''The Tangled Angler''
|
|-
| rowspan="4"| 1942
| ''A Hollywood Detour''
|
|-
| ''Under the Shedding Chestnut Tree''
|
|-
| ''Wacky Wigwams''
|
|-
| ''Woodman, Spare Me That Tree''
|Last animated short with Screen Gems and Columbia
|-
| rowspan="5"| 1943
| ''[[Porky Pig's Feat]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Scrap Happy Daffy]]''
|
|-
| ''[[The Goldbrick]]''
|
|-
| ''[[The Home Front (1943 film)|The Home Front]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Puss n' Booty]]''
|Last black and white Looney Tunes cartoon
|-
| rowspan="7"| 1944
| ''[[I Got Plenty of Mutton]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Swooner Crooner]]''
|
|-
| ''[[The Chow Hound]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Brother Brat]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Plane Daffy]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Booby Hatched]]''
|
|-
| ''[[The Stupid Cupid]]''
|
|-
| rowspan="4"| 1945
| ''[[The Unruly Hare]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Behind the Meat-Ball]]''
|Uncredited
|-
| ''[[Tale of Two Mice]]''
|Uncredited
|-
| ''[[Nasty Quacks]]''
|Uncredited
|-
|1946
| ''[[Hare Remover]]''
|Uncredited; last animated short with Warner Bros
|-
|1947
| ''[[The Way of Peace (film)|The Way of Peace]]''
|Also writer
|-
|1967
| ''[[The Bear That Wasn't (film)|The Bear That Wasn't]]''
|Story only
|}

===Feature films===
{| class="wikitable unsortable"
|-  
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Producer
! Notes
|-
| 1940
| ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
|-
| 1945
| ''[[Delightfully Dangerous]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Partial|Story}}
| {{No}}
|Story co-written with [[Irving Phillips]] and Edward Verdier
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1946
| ''[[A Night in Casablanca]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
| ''[[Monsieur Beaucaire (1946 film)|Monsieur Beaucaire]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
| 1947
| ''[[Variety Girl]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with Monte Brice, [[Edmund Hartmann]] and Robert L. Welch
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1948
| ''[[The Fuller Brush Man]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with [[Devery Freeman]]
|-
| ''[[One Touch of Venus (film)|One Touch of Venus]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with [[Harry Kurnitz]]
|-
| ''[[The Paleface (1948 film)|The Paleface]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with Edmund Hartmann
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1949
| ''[[Miss Grant Takes Richmond]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with Devery Freeman and [[Nat Perrin]]
|-
| ''[[Love Happy]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with Mac Benoff
|-
| ''[[A Woman of Distinction]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Additional dialogue
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1950
| ''[[The Good Humor Man (1950 film)|The Good Humor Man]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| ''[[Kill the Umpire]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| ''[[The Fuller Brush Girl]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1951
| ''[[The Lemon Drop Kid]]''
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with Edmund Hartmann and Robert O'Brien
|-
| ''[[My Favorite Spy (1951 film)|My Favorite Spy]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1952
| ''[[The First Time (1952 film)|The First Time]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with [[Jean Rouverol]], [[Hugo Butler]] and [[Dane Lussier]]
|-
| ''[[Son of Paleface]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with Joseph Quillan and Robert L. Welch
|-
| 1953
| ''[[Marry Me Again]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1954
| ''[[Red Garters (film)|Red Garters]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
| ''[[Susan Slept Here]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1955
| ''[[5 Against the House]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
| ''[[Artists and Models]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with [[Hal Kanter]] and [[Herbert Baker (screenwriter)|Herbert Baker]]
|-
| rowspan="5"| 1956
| ''[[The Lieutenant Wore Skirts]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with Albert Beich
|-
| ''[[The Scarlet Hour]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with Alford Van Ronkel and [[John Meredyth Lucas]]
|-
| ''[[The Best Things in Life Are Free (film)|The Best Things in Life Are Free]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
| ''[[The Girl Can't Help It]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
|Co-written with Herbert Baker
|-
| ''[[Hollywood or Bust]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
| 1957
| ''[[Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1958
| ''[[Rock-A-Bye Baby (film)|Rock-A-Bye Baby]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| ''[[The Geisha Boy]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with Rudy Makoul
|-
| 1959
| ''[[Say One for Me]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{Yes}}
|Script revisions
|-
| 1960
| ''[[Cinderfella]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 1961
| ''[[Snow White and the Three Stooges]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1962
| ''[[Bachelor Flat]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with [[Budd Grossman]]
|-
| ''[[Gigot (film)|Gigot]]''
| {{No}}
| {{Partial|Uncredited}}
| {{No}}
|Script revisions
|-
| ''[[It's Only Money]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1963
| ''[[The Man from the Diner's Club]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with [[William Peter Blatty]]
|-
| ''[[Who's Minding the Store?]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with Harry Tugend
|-
| 1964
| ''[[The Disorderly Orderly]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 1965
| ''[[The Alphabet Murders]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 1966
| ''[[The Glass Bottom Boat]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
| 1967
| ''[[Caprice (1967 film)|Caprice]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|Co-written with [[John Kohn]]
|-
| 1968
| ''[[The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell]]''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|}

==Sources==
* {{Cite book|last=Sigall|first=Martha| title=Living Life Inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation | chapter=The Boys of Termite Terrace| year=2005 | publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]]| isbn= 9781578067497| chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=diKnDBs0wrIC&pg=PA49 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Seife |first1=Ethan de |title=Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin |date=16 April 2012 |publisher=[[Wesleyan University Press]] |location=[[Middletown, CT]] |isbn=978-0-8195-7241-7 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/13556 |access-date=6 March 2023 |language=en}}<ref name="jstor/23823985">{{cite journal |last1=Krutnik |first1=Frank |title=Spirited Vulgarity: Frank Tashlin as Comic Auteur |journal=Studies in American Humor |date=2013 |issue=27 |pages=201–215 |doi=10.2307/23823985 |jstor=23823985 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23823985 |access-date=6 March 2023 |issn=0095-280X}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Frank Tashlin}}
{{wikisource author}}
*{{IMDb name|id=0850895|name=Frank Tashlin}}
* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/tashlin/ Frank Tashlin] [[Senses of Cinema]]: Great Directors Critical Database
* [https://archive.org/details/home_front "Private SNAFU – The Home Front"], 1943 cartoon directed by Tashlin, viewable online
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/movies/20kehr.html New York Times article]
* [http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/4096/frank-tashlin Literature on Frank Tashlin]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120606150949/http://www.drawger.com/kroninger/?article_id=13190 ''How to Create Cartoons'']
* [https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tashlin_frank.htm Frank Tashlin] Lambiek Comiclopedia 

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