Gabby (film series)

Gabby is a short-lived Max Fleischer animated cartoon series distributed through Paramount Pictures. Gabby debuted as the town crier in the 1939 animated feature Gulliver’s Travels produced by Fleischer. Shortly afterward, Paramount and Fleischer gave Gabby his own Technicolor spinoff cartoon series, eight entries of which were produced in 1940 and 1941. Gabby was voiced by Pinto Colvig, the voice of Walt Disney's Goofy, Pluto, and Grumpy and Sleepy from the 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Gabby
Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Story by	Joseph E. Stultz Dan Gordon Bob Wickersham Pinto Colvig Jack Ward Carl Meyer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Starring	Pinto Colvig Jack Mercer Margie Hines
Music by	Sammy Timberg
Animation by	Willard Bowsky James Davis Bill Nolan George Germanetti David Tendlar James Culhane Alfred Eugster Arnold Gillespie Steve Muffati Joe Oriolo Orestes Calpini Otto Feuer Irving Spector
Production company	Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	October 18, 1940 — August 15, 1941
Running time	6–7 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Gabby Goes Fishing (1941)

Jack Mercer (the voice of Popeye and King Little, Sneak, Snoop, Snitch, and Twinkle Toes in Gulliver’s Travels) was regularly cast alongside Colvig, as either a king, mayor, snitch, fish, castle worker, fire fighter, or sometimes even as Gabby's humming.

The Gabby cartoons were sold to U.M. & M. TV Corporation in 1955, which later became part of National Telefilm Associates, which became Republic Pictures, and was then sold to Paramount's current parent ViacomCBS (now currently renamed and rebranded as Paramount Global) in 1999. Today, the Gabby cartoons are in the public domain. For official releases, the cartoons are currently syndicated on television by Trifecta Entertainment & Media (inherited from CBS Television Distribution and other companies), original distributor Paramount owns the theatrical rights, and Olive Films owns the DVD rights. However, most Gabby cartoons can be found in faded public domain television prints, usually featuring National Telefilm Associates openings.

Filmography

#	Title	Date	Animation	Story	Musical arrangement
1	King for a Day	October 18, 1940	Willard Bowsky James Davis	Joseph E. Stultz	Sammy Timberg
2	The Constable	November 15, 1940	Bill Nolan George Germanetti	Dan Gordon
3	All's Well	January 17, 1941	David Tendlar William Nolan	Bob Wickersham
4	Two for the Zoo	February 21, 1941	James Culhane Alfred Eugster	Pinto Colvig
5	Swing Cleaning	April 11, 1941	Willard Bowsky Arnold Gillespie	Bob Wickersham
6	Fire Cheese	June 20, 1941	Steve Muffati Joe Oriolo	Jack Ward
7	Gabby Goes Fishing	July 18, 1941	Orestes Calpini Otto Feuer	Carl Meyer
8	It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day	August 15, 1941	Orestes Calpini Irving Spector	Bob Wickersham

External links

• Gabby at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 31, 2016.
• The short film Gabby Goes Fishing (1941) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
• The short film Gabby: Fire Cheese (1941) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
• The short film Gabby: All's Well (1941) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
• The short film Swing Cleaning (1941) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.