{"id":49503,"date":"2025-09-03T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=49503"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:52:44","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-a-star-is-bored-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/03\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-a-star-is-bored-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: A Star is Bored (1956)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Star is Bored<\/strong> (1956)<br \/>\nDirected by Friz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by Warren Foster<br \/>\nAnimation by Art Davis, Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>Daffy Duck is the malcontented janitor at a movie studio where Bugs Bunny is the reigning screen star. Annoyed at the attention Bugs is receiving, Daffy marches into the office of the casting director to demand a crack at stardom. Daffy is cast as Bugs\u2019 stunt double in an ongoing production and is dressed in a rabbit suit but soon discovers to his frustration he is being assigned the most dangerous stunts.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A so-so entry in the Bugs-Daffy frenemy series, the humor in \u201cA Star is Bored\u201d centers on Daffy either losing his temper or absorbing the most violent stunts, including gunshots into his face and piloting a crashing airplane. Daffy also attempts to sabotage a couple of Bugs&#8217; scenes, but those efforts predictably go awry.<\/p>\n<p>Bugs is mostly a polite observer to the mayhem inflicted on Daffy, only acknowledging his pleasure over Daffy\u2019s dilemma in the surprise closing gag. This comedy imbalance would become more pronounced in later cartoons as Daffy\u2019s behavior became more obstreperous and less hilarious while Bugs&#8217; dynamism faded into borderline monotony.<\/p>\n<p>Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam briefly appear, but not in the same scene. Perhaps the funniest character is the unnamed, unsmiling film director with the heavy German accent who orders Daffy into his endless indignities. This is obviously a riff on the German talent who thrived behind Hollywood\u2019s cameras since the 1920s and an amusing little inside joke on life in the Golden Age film studios.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:72.97% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1097760273?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"A Star is Bored (1956)\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Star is Bored (1956) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by Warren Foster Animation by Art Davis, Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy Music by Milt Franklyn Daffy Duck is the malcontented janitor at a movie studio where Bugs Bunny is the reigning screen star. Annoyed at the attention Bugs is receiving, Daffy marches into the office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":49504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,1816,2523,1175],"class_list":["post-49503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoons","tag-daffy-duck","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49507,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49503\/revisions\/49507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}