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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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Began drawing comic strips for his junior high school newspaper in Astoria, Queens, New York, starting in 1927.

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!

Moved to Los Angeles in 1933 and began working for Leon Schlesinger at Warner Brothers on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series.

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