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Little Audrey
Little Audrey (full name: Audrey Smith) is a fictional animated cartoon character, appearing in early 20th century comics prior to starring in a series of Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios cartoons from 1947 to 1958. She was devised after Paramount decided not to renew the license on Little Lulu, the comic strip character created by Marjorie Henderson Buell (a.k.a. "Marge").
Despite superficial similarities between the characters, the Famous animators were at pains to design Audrey in contrast to Lulu. As opposed to Buell's individualistic rendering of Lulu, the animators adopted an entirely different color scheme for Audrey and employed the stylistic conventions common to Famous Studios' later 1940s repertoire.
Veteran animator Bill Tytla designed Little Audrey, reportedly inspired by his daughter Tammy (also his inspiration for Famous' version of Little Lulu, on which he worked and for which he directed several shorts). The original voice of Little Lulu was performed by actress Cecil Roy (who was also the voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost). Little Audrey was voiced by Mae Questel, whose character voices included Betty Boop, Olive Oyl from the Popeye cartoons, and most of Paramount's other major female cartoon characters.
Prior to her adoption by Famous in 1947, Little Audrey had a long career in cartoons but also in a series of mostly slapstick gags, some going as far back as the First World War.
According to B.A. Botkin's A Treasury of American Folktales:
Little Audrey is a cartoon character about whom thousands of nonsensical short tales during the past five or six years — have been told. Sometimes Little Audrey parades as Little Emma or Little Gertrude, but she usually is recognizable by a catch phrase "she just laughed and laughed." The amusing incident is typically a catastrophe.
One of the most famous:
One day, Li'l Audrey was playing with matches. Her mother told her she'd better stop before someone got hurt. But Li'l Audrey was awfully hard headed and kept playing with matches, and eventually she burned their house down. "Oh, Li'l Audrey, you are sure gonna catch it when your father comes home!" said her mother. But Li'l Audrey just laughed and laughed, because she knew her father had come home early to take a nap.
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Little Audrey
Little Audrey (full name: Audrey Smith) is a fictional animated cartoon character, appearing in early 20th century comics prior to starring in a series of Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios cartoons from 1947 to 1958. She was devised after Paramount decided not to renew the license on Little Lulu, the comic strip character created by Marjorie Henderson Buell (a.k.a. "Marge").
Despite superficial similarities between the characters, the Famous animators were at pains to design Audrey in contrast to Lulu. As opposed to Buell's individualistic rendering of Lulu, the animators adopted an entirely different color scheme for Audrey and employed the stylistic conventions common to Famous Studios' later 1940s repertoire.
Veteran animator Bill Tytla designed Little Audrey, reportedly inspired by his daughter Tammy (also his inspiration for Famous' version of Little Lulu, on which he worked and for which he directed several shorts). The original voice of Little Lulu was performed by actress Cecil Roy (who was also the voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost). Little Audrey was voiced by Mae Questel, whose character voices included Betty Boop, Olive Oyl from the Popeye cartoons, and most of Paramount's other major female cartoon characters.
Prior to her adoption by Famous in 1947, Little Audrey had a long career in cartoons but also in a series of mostly slapstick gags, some going as far back as the First World War.
According to B.A. Botkin's A Treasury of American Folktales:
Little Audrey is a cartoon character about whom thousands of nonsensical short tales during the past five or six years — have been told. Sometimes Little Audrey parades as Little Emma or Little Gertrude, but she usually is recognizable by a catch phrase "she just laughed and laughed." The amusing incident is typically a catastrophe.
One of the most famous:
One day, Li'l Audrey was playing with matches. Her mother told her she'd better stop before someone got hurt. But Li'l Audrey was awfully hard headed and kept playing with matches, and eventually she burned their house down. "Oh, Li'l Audrey, you are sure gonna catch it when your father comes home!" said her mother. But Li'l Audrey just laughed and laughed, because she knew her father had come home early to take a nap.