My Favorite Duck

My Favorite Duck
Blue Ribbon reissue title card
Directed byCharles M. Jones
Story byMike Maltese
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byRudy Larriva[1]
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • December 5, 1942 (1942-12-05) (U.S.)
January 28, 1950 (Blue Ribbon reissue)
Running time
7:36
LanguageEnglish

My Favorite Duck is a 1942 color Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones, in his second collaboration with writer Michael Maltese.[2] The cartoon was released on December 5, 1942, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.[3] It was the second color entry in the Looney Tunes series, and the first pairing of Porky and Daffy produced in Technicolor.

The title was presumably inspired by a film of that era, either My Favorite Wife (1940) or My Favorite Blonde (1942). In this case the title is used ironically. This is one of several entries in a series where Daffy (during his "screwball" period) torments Porky in a variety of ways.

  1. ^ Lost Warner Bros. Original Titles
  2. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 135. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.