Frank Tashlin was best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated shorts for Warner Bros.
17 Facts About Frank Tashlin
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Frank Tashlin 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.
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Frank Tashlin signed his comic strip "Tish Tash," and used the same name for his cartoon credits.
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Frank Tashlin was fired from the studio when he refused to give Schlesinger a cut of his comic strip revenues.
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Frank Tashlin moved to Hal Roach's studio in 1935 as a writer.
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Frank Tashlin 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.
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Frank Tashlin effectively ran the studio and hired many former Disney staffers who had left as a result of the Disney animators' strike.
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Frank Tashlin launched The Fox and the Crow series, one of the better products of the studio.
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Frank Tashlin was fired over an argument with the executives of Columbia.
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Frank Tashlin rejoined the Warner directors of "Termite Terrace" in 1942.
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Frank Tashlin stayed with the studio during World War II and worked on numerous wartime shorts, including the Private Snafu educational films.
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Frank 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.
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Frank Tashlin began his career directing feature films when he was asked to finish directing the 1951 film The Lemon Drop Kid starring Bob Hope.
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Frank Tashlin wrote and illustrated three books, The Bear That Wasn't, The Possum That Didn't, and The World That Isn't.
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Frank Tashlin wrote and self-published an instructional booklet entitled How to Create Cartoons in 1952.
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Frank Tashlin died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being stricken with a coronary thrombosis three days before at his Beverly Hills home.
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Frank Tashlin is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.