| Director: | Alex Lovy |
| Producer: | William L. Hendricks |
| Story: | Cal Howard |
| Editing: | Hal Geer |
| Animator: | Volus Jones Ted Bonnicksen Laverne Harding Ed Solomon |
| Background Artist: | Bob Abrams |
| Starring: | Mel Blanc |
| Music: | William Lava |
| Studio: | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation |
| Distributor: | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Vitagraph Company of America |
| Color Process: | Technicolor |
| Runtime: | 6 minutes |
| Language: | English |
Rodent to Stardom is a 1967 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Alex Lovy.[1] The short was released on September 23, 1967, and stars Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales.[2] It is the first cartoon to credit Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, but still uses the "Abstract WB" titles.
Daffy is plucked for stardom by director Harvey Hassenpfeffer of Colossal Studios — or so he thinks. However, as he was in A Star Is Bored (1956), Daffy's real fate is to be the stuntman for the star, in this case Speedy Gonzales. The picture is The Nursery Rhyme Review. First, "the sky is falling"; next, the "rockabye baby" cradle falls from a treetop. Daffy realizes he needs to get rid of Speedy, so he asks for an autograph and traps Speedy in a book, which he deposits in a library. Daffy gets the love scene with Ducky Lamour, but after a number of stunts and just before the kiss, his stand-in, Speedy, takes over, and tells the duck, "There's no business like show business, eh, Señores Daffy?" Disgusted, Daffy replies, "Boy, you can say that again!" as he watches Speedy kissing Ducky on the cheek.