Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mother Goose Goes Hollywood |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 8 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wilfred Jackson |
| production |
Walt Disney for Walt Disney Productions |
| music | Edward H. Plumb |
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood is a 1938 American animated short film directed by Wilfred Jackson .
action
Various stories are opened in a storybook:
- Little Bo Peep : Little Bo Peep in the form of Katharine Hepburn is looking for her sheep .
- "Old King Cole" : Old King Cole in the shape of Hugh Herbert calls his three violinists to him. The violinists in the form of the Marx Brothers appear, tune their instruments and then break them. The king is amused, Ned Sparks as a fool finds the performance lessamusing. Joe Penner brings the king a bowl and asks him if hewould like to buya duck - there is Donald Duck in the bowl, but the king closes the bowl with the lid and Donald complains.
- Rub-a-dub-dub : Captain Bligh ( Charles Laughton ) is at sea with Mr. Manuel ( Spencer Tracy ) and Freddie Bartholomew in a washtub-like boat and doesn't even have a compass with him. Little Bo Peep drives past them looking for their sheep and the boat capsizes.
- Humpty Dumpty : Humpty Dumpty in the form of WC Fields examines the nest of his birds, in which, however, Charlie McCarthy, the ventriloquist dummy from Edgar Bergen , is. He insults him and when he tries to hit him, he ends up upside down in a mushroom that now looks like an egg cup.
- Simple Simon Met a Pieman : Simple Simon ( Stan Laurel ) fishes for worms in a tin can, Pieman ( Oliver Hardy ) has stacked all of his cakes on top of each other. He offers Simon a cake and he cleverly takes one from the middle of the pile. While the pile remains standing with him, it collapses in Pieman's attempt. Pieman throws a cake at Simon, but meets Little Bo Peep, who is now black in the face and suddenly speaks slang.
- See Saw Margery Daw : Edward G. Robinson and Greta Garbo sit on a seesaw . When she says she would like to be alone, Robinson jumps off the seesaw and Garbo falls to the ground.
- Little Jack Horner : Little Jack Horner ( Eddie Cantor ) begins to sing Sing a Song of Sixpence . After the line of the song “twenty black birds baking a pie”, nine black singers emerge from a cake and start to sing.
- Little Boy Blue : The nine ask Little Boy Blue ( Wallace Beery ) to blow the trumpet . But he sleeps. Only after a further request from Fats Waller does he slowly wake up and finally play the trumpet.
The book opens lying down. An old shoe rises from it, from which musicians and instruments quickly come. A jazz concert begins, Fred Astaire tapes, Martha Raye and Joe E. Brown dance, and many of the characters seen in earlier episodes appear again and play and dance. At the end you see Little Bo Peep alone with a lantern - she is still looking for her sheep.
production
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood was released on December 23, 1938 as part of the Disney animated film series Silly Symphonies . In Mother Goose Goes Hollywood , various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed parodically. Numerous parodies are linked to the individual, caricatured, real entertainers of their time. Joe Penner's trademark was the phrase “Wanna buy a duck?”, The duck in question in the cartoon being Donald Duck. Charles Laughton had played a Captain Bligh in 1935 in Mutiny on the Bounty , while WC Fields had appeared as Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland in 1933 .
Especially since the 1960s, the scenes with stereotypical depictions of black artists have been censored. The censored version of the film was around six minutes long.
synchronization
| role | speaker |
|---|---|
| Marx Brothers, Eddie Cantor, Spencer Tracy, Hugh Herbert, Ned Sparks, Joe Penner, Charles Laughton, WC Fields, Charlie McCarthy, Edward G. Robinson, Joe E. Brown, Oliver Hardy | Dave Barry |
| Katharine Hepburn, Martha Raye, Greta Garbo, Freddie Bartholomew | Sara Berner |
| Donald Duck | Clarence Nash |
| Fats Waller, Stepin Fetchit | Danny Webb |
Awards
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood was nominated for an Oscar in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ” in 1939 , but could not prevail against Ferdinand the bull .
Web links
- Mother Goose Goes Hollywood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mother Goose Goes Hollywood on disneyshorts.org
- some screenshots from the scenes with Greta Garbo on garboforever.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. disneyshorts.org ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See imdb.com
