Lonesome Lenny

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Lonesome Lenny

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Released:	Runtime:
March 9, 1946	8 min.

Series:

Screwy Squirrel

MPAA Number:	Production Number:
11050	138^[2]

Copyright Renewed:

February 28, 1973^[1]

Starring:

Screwy Squirrel
Lenny
Wolf (cameo)

Crew

Voice Characterizations:

Wally Maher (uncredited)
Tex Avery (uncredited)
Sara Berner (uncredited)

Director:

Tex Avery

Written By:

Heck Allen

Producer:

Fred Quimby (uncredited)

Animated By:

Ray Abrams
Preston Blair
Walt Clinton
Ed Love
Irven Spence (uncredited)

Character Design:

Claude Smith (uncredited)

Layout Artist:

Claude Smith (uncredited)

Background Artist:

John Didrik Johnsen (uncredited)

Film Editor:

Fred McAlpin (uncredited)

Sound Effects:

Fred McAlpin (uncredited)

Musician:

Scott Bradley

Lonesome Lenny is a 1946 Screwy Squirrel cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

Plot[]

A rich woman walks into a pet shop in search of a friend for her dog, Lenny. The owner suggests Screwy Squirrel, but Screwy is immediately put off by the woman's hideous looks. The owner wraps Screwy up and the rich woman takes him home.

At the rich lady's home, Lenny (a parody off of the character of Lenny from the novel Of Mice and Men) is in his room, moping about being lonely. He explains that he used to have a friend, a mouse, "but he don't move no more". The rich lady drops off Lenny's present and Lenny immediately names Screwy, "George" (a nod-off to Lenny's best friend and keeper from the novel). Screwy, desperately, negotiates with Lenny, agreeing to be his "little friend" if Lenny can catch him. The cartoon becomes a series of chases and comical gags around the mansion. Lenny finally gets the upper hand on Screwy and wins. He begins to pet and cuddle Screwy, crushing his little body.

The cartoon fades out and back in again. Lenny is moping about being lonely, once again. He explains that he used to have a friend, "but he don't move no more". Lenny holds up Screwy's limp body. Screwy's dead body holds up a sign displaying "Sad ending, isn't it?"

Voice Cast[]

Wally Maher as Screwy Squirrel / Pet Shop Owner^[3]^[4]
Tex Avery as Lenny^[3]^[4]
Sara Berner as Wealthy Lady^[3]^[4]

Availability[]

(1993) LaserDisc - The Compleat Tex Avery, Side 3
(2003) DVD - La Collection Tex Avery (The Tex Avery Collection), Disc 2 (1995 USA Turner print)
(2007) DVD - The Katherine Hepburn Collection, Disc 2 (1995 USA Turner print)
(2019) Streaming - Boomerang (1995 USA Turner print)
(2020) Blu-Ray, DVD - Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1 (restored)

Notes[]

This is Screwy Squirrel's final appearance.
Lenny would later reappear in Hound Hunters the following year, albeit as a disguise used by Junior and minus Screwy Squirrel's interference.
The working title was Lonesome Lennie.
One of the main musical motifs of this short is "If I Only Had a Brain" from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.