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Cupid Gets His Man
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Distributed by

RKO Radio Pictures

Directed By

Tom Palmer

Produced By

Amadee J. Van Beuren

Released on

July 24, 1936

Color by

TechniColor

Voices by

Walter Tetley (uncredited)

Cupid Gets His Man was a 1936 animated short produced by Van Beuren Studios. This was distributed to theaters by RKO on July 24, 1936.

Plot[]

Colonel Dan Cupid and his matchmaking babies tried to bring together two very completely difficult people, which happened to be both a prudish spinster (Edna

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Big leader Cupid gives advise to a young cupid cadet

May Oliver) and a bulbous-nosed dyspeptic (W.C. Fields). When one of Cupid's young charges can't get the job of hitching the two together done, the boss decides to take matters into his own hands as he joins the battle to take care of it single-handedly all by himself. Cupid must face the most roughest and toughest assignment of his career. It takes a whole lot of battalion of cherubs to unite the cantankerous and feuding neighbors, who wage total war against both Dan Cupid and his entire brigade of cupids until finally at last, they are forced into matrimony and had kids.

Voice cast[]

  • Walter Tetley as Dan Cupid (uncredited)

Trivia[]

  • One of the animators in this film is Carlo Vinci.
  • This is first cartoon where under title type the crew
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