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Minnie Mouse

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Minnie Mouse

Appears in
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Played by
Walt Disney

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Minnie Mouse is a character in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), played by Walt Disney.

11 Interesting Facts About Minnie Mouse

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  1. #001

    She met her husband Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, during a voice session for Totally Minnie (1988).

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  1. #002

    Ahead of his 35th birthday, his brother Roy urged staff to organize a surprise party for the boss. Two animators decided it would be hilarious to make a short film in which Mickey and Minnie Mouse "consummating their relationship." When Disney watched the animation at the party, he gave a forced laugh and jokingly asked who had made it. The moment the two animators stepped forward, he fired them on the spot and walked out.

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  2. #003

    Richard Williams built Roger Rabbit's look from a mix of studio references: a Looney Tunes face, the torso of a Disney hero, Goofy-style overalls, Mickey Mouse gloves and a Porky Pig bow tie.

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  3. #004

    Animators use the term "bumping the lamp" for a scene in which Bob Hoskins's character keeps striking a swinging ceiling lamp, so the team had to redraw Roger Rabbit to follow the changing light.

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  4. #005

    Charles Fleischer had the costume department make him a full-body Roger Rabbit suit and spoke all his lines from inside it on set, convinced it helped him and co-star Bob Hoskins get inside the film's world.

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  5. #006

    The lethal "dip" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit consists of turpentine, benzene and acetone, the same paint thinners used in real life to wipe animation cels.

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  6. #007

    The cartoon shoe's squeaks and whimpers as it is lowered into the dip came from Nancy Cartwright, who a year later became the voice of Bart Simpson.

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  7. #008

    Early test reels for the project cast Paul Reubens, better known as Pee-wee Herman, as a Roger Rabbit with a neurotic stammer.

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  8. #009

    For a later test scene pairing Roger with Eddie Valiant, animation director Richard Williams had Joe Pantoliano, later of The Sopranos, play Eddie.

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  9. #010

    Jessica Rabbit's design owed most to the heroine of Tex Avery's short "Red Hot Riding Hood," with Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth and Veronica Lake among her human models.

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  10. #011

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit remains the only film to put Disney's Mickey Mouse and Warner Bros.' Bugs Bunny on screen together, sharing a skydiving scene alongside a mid-air Bob Hoskins.

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