Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
1938 | 8m | English
Popularity: 0.2 (history)
| Director: | Wilfred Jackson |
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| Writer: | Dick Rickard, Leo Ellis, Peter O'Crotty, Ed Penner, Webb Smith, Isadore Klein, T. Hee |
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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. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 23, 1938 |
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| Director: | Wilfred Jackson |
| Writer: | Dick Rickard, Leo Ellis, Peter O'Crotty, Ed Penner, Webb Smith, Isadore Klein, T. Hee |
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| Production Companies | Walt Disney Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $69,308 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 17, 2026 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Al Bernie | (voice) |
| Thelma Boardman | (voice) |
| Ann Lee | (voice) |
| Dave Weber | (voice) |
| Dave Barry | Groucho Marx / Eddie Cantor / Spencer Tracy / Hugh Herbert / Ned Sparks / Joe Penner / Charles Laughton / W.C. Fields / Charlie McCarthy / Edward G. Robinson / Joe E. Brown / Oliver Hardy (voice) (uncredited) |
| Sara Berner | Katharine Hepburn / Martha Raye / Greta Garbo / Freddie Bartholomew (voice) (uncredited) |
| Clarence Nash | Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited) |
| Danny Webb | Fats Waller / Stepin Fetchit (voice) (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Robert Stokes | Animation |
| Grim Natwick | Animation |
| Dick Rickard | Story |
| Leo Ellis | Story |
| Peter O'Crotty | Story |
| Ed Penner | Story |
| Webb Smith | Story |
| Isadore Klein | Story, Animation |
| Edward H. Plumb | Original Music Composer |
| Ferdinand Horvath | Art Direction |
| Wilfred Jackson | Director |
| Ward Kimball | Animation |
| Jack Campbell | Animation |
| Don Patterson | Animation |
| Vernon Stallings | Storyboard |
| T. Hee | Story |
| Name | Title |
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| Walt Disney | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
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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 & Har ... dy, 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.