The First Easter Rabbit (1976)
The Delightful Tale of How Easter Became Hoppy as Well as Happy!
A beloved toy stuffed rabbit is rescued by a fairy to be the first Easter Rabbit.
- Date of release
- 1976-04-09
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 25m
- Genres
- Family, Animation, Comedy
- Director
- Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Casting
- Burl Ives — Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
- Robert Morse — Young Stuffy (voice)
- Stan Freberg — Flops (voice)
- Paul Frees — Zero / Santa (voice)
- Don Messick — Whiskers / Jonathan (voice)
- Joan Gardner — Elizabeth / Calliope (voice)
- Dina Lynn — Glinda (voice)
- Christine Winter — Vocalist (voice)
Interesting facts
The First Easter Rabbit is an American animated Easter television special that premiered April 9, 1976, on NBC and later aired on CBS. Created by Rankin/Bass Productions, it tells the story of the Easter Bunny's origin. The special is loosely based on the 1922 children's book The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. Burl Ives narrates the special which also features the Irving Berlin song "Easter Parade". It marked Ives's return to a Rankin/Bass special for the first time since the company's 1964 stop motion television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer twelve years prior.
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