Eddie Selzer

Edward "Eddie" Selzer was born on January 12, 1893, and died on February 22, 1970. Edward "Eddie" Selzer was an American film producer and publicist who oversaw Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1944 through 1958. He was a Golden Gloves boxer and served in the United States Navy. He won a boxing demonstration for the Navy and was given a weekend pass as a result. While on leave, he met a New York Click to look into! >> Read More... chorus girl called Laura Cohn; he married Laura in 1927 and moved to Los Angeles, where they had two daughters, Phyllis and Robert. Lewis Warner convinced Selzer to join Warner Bros. in 1930 to work on Robert Ripley's "Believe it or Not" series and to establish an animation studio. He had no option but to accept the position due to the Great Depression.

He was also on a globe tour with Ripley's Believe It or Not. He was appointed Director of Publicity at Warners in late 1933, and from 1937 until 1944, he was in charge of the trailer and title departments. Selzer said that he did not want any credit on-screen as Warner Bros. like his predecessor. Chuck Amuck - The life and times of an animated catoonist, a Chuck Jones' autobiography, has lot of information regarding Selzer's personality and financial acumen.Jones portrays Selzer as an intrusive bore who has little love for animated entertainment. They eventually gained mutual respect and understanding for one another and remained amicable until Selzer's death. Eddie Selzer was pleased with his role as producer of the Looney Tunes During the golden age of American animation, one o >> Read More... series since the team's inventions provided so much joy to so many people.

Despite declaring loudly (and indelicately) that a skunk speaking French was not humorous, he joyfully collected the Academy Award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)for Animated Short Film in 1949 — for For Scent-mental Reasons, a Pepé Le Pew cartoon. When he saw a group of animators laughing over a storyboard one day, he rushed in and shouted, "What in the Hell does all of this laughter have to do with the creation of animated cartoons?" Selzer departed in 1958, and John Burton John W. Burton was one of the most prominent perso >> Read More... took over as president of Warner Bros. Cartoons.