Don Juan
- Episode aired 1960
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June Foray
- Senorita
- (voice)
Paul Frees
- Various Characters
- (voice)
Bill Scott
- Mr. Peabody
- (voice)
Walter Tetley
- Sherman
- (voice)
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- TriviaUnusually for this series, the focal guest character is not a historical figure. Don Juan is a fictional character whose earliest known appearance was in the play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina, around 1630. The play may have been based on an unwritten source. More famous revisions of the Don Juan story were written by Molière later in the 17th century, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 18th, and Lord Byron in the 19th.
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Contrary to popular folk lore, the subject of . . .
. . . PEABODY'S IMPROBABLE HISTORY: DON JUAN is as real as you and me. Translated into American, this moniker is spelled out as "Donald John." That's right, our penultimate Commander-in-Chief is named after Don Juan. Obviously, no parents would name a potential U. S. President after a fairy tale personage such as Sandman Jackson, Tooth Fairy Adams, Easter Bunny Roosevelt or Santa Claus Lincoln. Who would vote for Jack Frost Kennedy or Rumpelstiltskin Eisenhower? The actual Don Juan was born Feb. 29, 1600 in Barcelona, Spain. By the time he turned 30, he was wanted in 37 jurisdictions for ladies' dressing room escapades, wandering paws in the donkey cart, misjudging beauty pageants and taking showers of inappropriate hues. It seems that chips don't fall very far from the family tree, and that the impervious wizard's grandson made better than expected.
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- Nov 23, 2023
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