Elmer Awards

[Bobby Bickert]

This was one of my purchases at the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair last weekend. Anyone want to add this to their collection?


http://i19.tinypic.com/4hb8g9c.jpg

[Jack G.]

How the heck did :befuddled wind up being an award?

Now I like Elmer mind you, but it doesn't seem like a compliment
to me to get an award symbolized by a not-too-smart character.

[Ray Pointer]

Seems more like a "booby prize." Surely Betty Grable would have qualified for one, for obvious reasons.

[zavkram]

And Jane ("The Outlaw") Russell, for that matter! :p

[Brandon Panther]

Maybe this is where Clampett got the idea for the rabbit booby prize in "What's Cookin' Doc?"

[Gasmask Ted]

This is the Feb. 7, 1942 issue, and a pdf of it is available at
http://www.otrr.org/Pages/Publications/magz_movie-radio_guide.htm
I've just added some text from the issue to the MRG thread at
http://forums.goldenagecartoons.com/showthread.php?t=14084
The most on topic part of the Elmer awards, other than the photos of the award, is the following sentence:
"Approximately ten inches high, mounted on a two-and-one-half-inch pedestal, Elmet was designed by the Leon Schlesinger studios artists and their director, Robert Clampett, is being modeled in figurine by the famous young artist, Frank Irwin."

[nickramer]

I thought the Clampett Unit had something to do with it. He mentioned that award in "Bugs Bunny Superstar".