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You Ought to Be in Pictures is a 1940 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short film featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. The film combined live-action and animation, and features live-action appearances by Leon Schlesinger, writer Michael Maltese, and other Schlesinger Productions staff members.

Summary

Daffy wants to be the top star in the studio. To this end, he persuades Porky to resign from the Schlesinger studios to pursue a career in feature films. Porky goes to Leon Schlesinger and asks to have his contract torn up. Schlesinger reluctantly agrees, and wishes Porky the best of luck. "He'll be back!" chuckles Schlesinger after Porky is out of earshot.

The rest of the short involves Porky trying to get into the lots and sets of various un-named studios, all with the same degree of success(none, that is). After several failures, he decides to see if Schlesinger will take him back. He returns to Schlesingers office, only to see Daffy doing a wild audition. He invites Daffy out to have a "talk" with him. After Porky gets his revenge on Daffy, he hurriedly runs into Schlesinger's office to beg for his job back. Schlesinger, laughing heartily, reveals that he didn't really rip up Porky's contract, and tells him to get back to work. Porky gladly runs back into the animation paper that he was in when the short started. Daffy, still not quite having learned his lesson after being beaten by Porky, again attempts to persuade Porky to resign. He gets splattered with a tomato.

Trivia

This was Friz Freleng's first short to be made after coming back to Warner Bros. after a stint as animator at MGM
Schlesinger appears as himself. Writer Mike Maltese plays the studio security guard, with his voice dubbed by Blanc.

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