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Director, Frank Tashlin, was born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein on Feb 19, 1913 in Weehawken, NJ. Tashlin died at the age of 59 on May 5, 1972 in Los Angeles, CA .

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According to Tashlin, he was fired from his animator job at Warner Brothers in 1936 when producer Leon Schlesinger discovered that Tashlin was also drawing a successful daily comic strip, "Van Boring," that was running in the Los Angeles Times. Schlesinger demanded a cut of Tashlin's profits from the comic strip, Tashlin refused, and Schlesinger fired him.

From 1939 to 1941, Tashlin worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, although he never got screen credit for any of the work he did.

While directing Bing Crosby in Say One for Me (1959), Bing mentioned to Tashlin how much he hated how he was caricatured in the Warner Bros. cartoon Swooner Crooner (1944). Tashlin laughed, and told Bing that not only did he direct that cartoon, he also animated the caricature in it!

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