Charlotte's Web (1973 film)

Charlotte's Web
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Charles A. Nichols Iwao Takamoto
Story by	Earl Hamner Jr.
Based on	Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Produced by	Joseph Barbera William Hanna
Starring	Debbie Reynolds Paul Lynde Henry Gibson
Edited by	Larry C. Cowan Pat Foley
Music by	The Sherman Brothers (songs) Irwin Kostal (score)
Production companies	Hanna-Barbera Productions Sagittarius Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	February 22, 1973 (1973-02-22) (Radio City Music Hall) March 1, 1973 (1973-03-01) (United States)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.4 million (rentals)[1]

Charlotte's Web is a 1973 American animated musical drama film based on the 1952 children's book of the same name by E. B. White.^[2] The film was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Like the book, this film centers on a pig named Wilbur who befriends an intelligent spider named Charlotte who saves him from being slaughtered.

Directed by Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto from a story by Earl Hamner Jr., it stars the voices of Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde and Henry Gibson, alongside narration by Rex Allen. Charlotte's Web features a score of music and lyrics written by the Sherman Brothers, who had previously written music for family films like Mary Poppins in 1964, The Jungle Book in 1967 and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968.

Charlotte's Web premiered at the Radio City Music Hall on February 22, 1973, and was released on March 1 to moderate critical and commercial success. This was the first of only four Hanna-Barbera films not to be based upon one of their famous television cartoons, the other three being C.H.O.M.P.S. in 1979, Heidi's Song in 1982 and Once Upon a Forest in 1993.