Leon Schlesinger
Known for: Production
Born: May 19, 1884 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Died: December 24, 1949
Leon Schlesinger (May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American film producer who founded Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation. He was a distant relative of the Warner Brothers. As head of his own studio, Schlesinger served as the producer of Warner's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1930, when Schlesinger assumed production from his subcontractors, Harman and Ising, to 1944, when Warner acquired the studio.
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You Ought to Be in Pictures
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Behind the Tunes: Leon Schlesinger - The Merrie Cartoon Mogul
Himself (Archive Footage)
Having a Wonderful Time with Angels in Dirty Places
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The March of Time
A Corny Concerto
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When I Yoo Hoo
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Porky's Badtime Story
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Porky's Building
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Streamlined Greta Green
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Plenty of Money and You
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A Sunbonnet Blue
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Rover's Rival
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Point Rationing of Foods
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Elmer's Candid Camera
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Horton Hatches the Egg
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Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
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Daffy - The Commando
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The Big Stampede
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The Man from Monterey
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Wabbit Twouble
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I Love to Singa
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Katnip Kollege
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Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
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The Wacky Wabbit
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