Chilly Willy

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Chilly Willy is a funny animal cartoon character, a diminutive anthropomorphic penguin living in Alaska. He was created by Paul J. Smith for the Walter Lantz studio in 1953. The character soon became the second most popular Lantz/Universal character behind Woody Woodpecker.

Chilly Willy appeared in 50 theatrical short subjects produced by Lantz from 1953 to 1972, most of which involve his attempts to stay warm, and often meeting opposition from a dog named Smedley. There were times, however, when Chilly and Smedley got along, as they did in Vicious Viking and Fractured Friendship. Ironically, Chilly never referred to Smedley by name. Most times that Chilly was in opposition with Smedley, it wound up with the two of them being friends at the end. Two of Chilly's friends in the later cartoons were Maxie the Polar Bear and Gooney the "Gooney Bird" Albatross. Maxie has appeared with Chilly more than Gooney has. There have been only two cartoons in which all three characters have appeared together: Gooney's Goofy Landings and Airlift a la Carte.

The cartoon short subjects stars the one and only Daws Butler as many voices of Chilly Willy, Smedley, Wally Walrus, Maxie, and Gooney.

Winnie Woodpecker

Winnie Woodpecker is the beautiful girlfriend of Woody Woodpecker's. She first appeared in a Walter Lantz short, "Real Gone Woody". In that short, Winnie had a date with Woody, but Buzz Buzzard stopped Woody because he wanted to date with Winnie. She also appeared in International Woodpecker as the caveman woodpecker's girlfriend and as Fifi from Paris. Winnie later appeared in The New Woody Woodpecker Show among with Woody, Chilly Willy, Splinter and Knothead, Wally Walrus, Ms. Meany and Buzz Buzzard.

The voice of Winnie Woodpecker was provided by Grace Stafford.

Woody Woodpecker

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Woody Woodpecker is a funny animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker, who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures. Woody was created in 1940 by Lantz and storyboard artist Ben "Bugs" Hardway, who had previously laid the groundwork for other two screwball characters, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the late 1930s. He was also orginally voiced by prolific voice actor Mel Blanc, who was succeeded by Ben Hardway and later by Grace Stafford, wife of Walter Lantz. His laugh went ,"Guess who? Ha-ha-ha-HAA-ha!" when Mel Blanc had already used a simliar laugh in the earlier Warner Bros. cartoons such as Elmer's Candid Camera.

Woody Woodpecker cartoons were first broadcast on television in 1957 under the title The Woody Woodpecker Show, which featured Lantz cartoons bookended by new footage of Woody and live-action footage of Lantz. Very much like Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, Woody is part of a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fameon 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.