Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood is an American animated short film directed by Wilfred Jackson from the year 1938.
Action
In a storybook different stories are pitched:
- Little Bo Peep Little Bo Peep in the form of Katharine Hepburn looking for her sheep.
- " Old King Cole " Old King Cole in the shape of Hugh Herbert calls his three violinists to himself. The violinist in the shape of the Marx Brothers appear tune their instruments and break it then. The King amused himself, Ned Sparks as a fool finds the presentation less funny. Joe Penner brings the king a bowl and asks him if he wanted to buy a duck - is in the bowl of Donald Duck, but the king closes the bowl with the lid and Donald clamored.
- Rub-a -dub -dub: Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton ) is with Mr. Manuel ( Spencer Tracy), and Freddie Bartholomew in a wash trough-like boat on the lake and has not even a compass it. Little Bo Peep goes on looking after their sheep over to them and the boat capsizes.
- Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty in the shape of WC Fields examined the nest of his birds, in which, however, Charlie McCarthy, the ventriloquist's dummy of Edgar Bergen is located. He insulted him and lands in an attempt to hit him upside down in a fungus now appears as an egg cup.
- Simple Simon Met a Pieman: Simple Simon ( Stan Laurel ) fishing in a tin can for worms, Pieman ( Oliver Hardy ) has stacked his entire cake. He offers Simon a cake and takes sent a middle of the stack. While with him, the stack remains standing, it coincides with Piemans attempt. Pieman throws a cake according to Simon, but meets Little Bo Peep, which is now black in the face and speaks with a time slang.
- See Saw Margery Daw: Edward G. Robinson and Greta Garbo sitting on a rocker. When she says that she would be alone so much, Robinson bounces rocker and Garbo falls to the ground.
- Little Jack Horner Little Jack Horner ( Eddie Cantor ) the song Sing a Song of Sixpence begins to sing. After the song line "twenty blackbirds baking a pie " appear nine black singer from a cake and begin to sing.
- Little Boy Blue: The nine call on Little Boy Blue ( Wallace Beery ) to blow the trumpet. The but is asleep. Only after a further request by Fats Waller, he slowly awakens and finally plays the trumpet.
The book works on lying. On it an old shoe, musicians and instruments quickly come out of the stands. It begins as a jazz concert, Fred Astaire tap-dances, dancing Martha Raye and Joe E. Brown and also many of the to be seen in previous episodes figures appear again and play and dance. At the end you can see Little Bo Peep alone with a lantern - it is still looking for her sheep.
Production
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood appeared on 23 December 1938 as part of the Disney animated series Silly Symphonies. In Mother Goose Goes Hollywood several Mother Goose rhymes are represented parody. Numerous parodies combine with the individual, caricature depicted real entertainment artists of their time, so was Joe Penner's trademark the phrase " Wanna buy a duck? ", Which meant the duck in the cartoon Donald Duck is. Charles Laughton had a Captain Bligh in 1935 embodied in Mutiny on the Bounty, while WC Fields had occurred in 1933 in Alice in Wonderland as Humpty Dumpty.
Especially since the 1960s, among other things, the scenes with stereotypical representations of black artists were censored. The censored film version was about six minutes.
Synchronization
Awards
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood in 1939 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " nomination, but could not prevail against Ferdinand, the bull itself.