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Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

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Various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed by Hollywood stars for example, Old King Cole's fiddlers three are the Marx Brothers, and Humpty Dumpty is W.C. Fields, who falls while tormenting Charlie McCarthy; Simple Simon and the Pieman are Laurel and Hardy.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1938-12-23

Runtime: 8 mins

Director: Wilfred Jackson

Spoken language: English

Genres: Animation, Comedy

Original title: Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

Production Companies: Walt Disney Productions

Production Countries: United States of America

Reviews

G

Geronimo1967
I wasn’t really sure what this had to do with “Mother Goose” but once it got going it was quite an entertaining little series of characterisations of Hollywood stars doing things from nursery rhymes or just having a darned good time. I’m sure I saw Katharine Hepburn, Edward G. Robinson, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers and Charles Laughton in this sing-along and some of the animation hits the nail on the head - especially Laughton and Hepburn as as very adaptable “Little Bow Beep”. It’s essentially a celebration of animated caricatures and though entirely forgettable, passes ten minutes with a lively score easily enough.
2025-06-28

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