Mother Goose Goes To Hollywood (1938)
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- A great cartoon with caricatures of great stars of 1938: Katherine Hepburn, les Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, Charles Laughton, Spencer Tracy, Laurel et Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Greta Garbo... and Fats Waller and the great Cab CALLOWAY. Due to those racist stereotypes, this cartoon has been banned. It's been nominated for the Oscars... bit it went to Ferdinand the Bull.
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I have never seen this one before! Cartoons that uses caricatures of old Hollywood stars are always my favorite.
+Kate McTiernan cartoons like these were intended for adults and shown in the cinema before the main movie alongside various newsreels.
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I know that, but they used to show them on TV all the time, my grandma would tell me who all the stars were. I thought I'd seen all of them, but I haven't seen this particular one.
+Kate McTiernan Disney cartoons were never sold to television like the other studios' cartoons.
The best thing about all these banned cartoons? The music. Cab Calloway was a legend.
I was thrilled to see that Harpo, Chico and Groucho were in this! Disney did a fantastic job in their caricatures! Especially when Chico was playing the piano, Disney got his style down! Harpo will and always will be my favorite though. I laughed out loud when he was playing inside the piano.
With Katherine Hepburn, Hugh Herbert, Marx Brothers, Ned Sparks, Joe Penner, Charles Laughton, Spencer Tracey and Freddie Bartholomew, W. C. Fields, Charlie McCarthy, Laurel and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Cantor, Cab Calloway, Stepin Fetchit, Wallace Beery, Edna May Oliver, Mae West, Zazu Pitts, Clark Gable, George Arliss, Fats Waller, Fred Astaire, Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye.
wow i'm black and i find it damn funny why was it banned ?
they was making fun of every race
I agree. I remember watching this as a child. Maybe some people just got all upset and it went from there.
Rubbish. They show some black singers. There have been many of them. I can't see anything wrong with it, and I am a jazz musician.
+LOVE They were poking fun at Hollywood actors....and black people
+Tommy Black they show stereotypical black caricatures, why pretend to not see something that is deliberately drawn (and drawn identically, with same lips). In another scene a character is in blackface: the joke is that they're now "black". Fats Waller almost has an alright caricature, but why the fuck are his lips drawn like sausages....he had thin lips.
To Stack em Short: It seems to me that just depicting a black person is regarded as offensive. A lot of black entertainers used to act goofy, including Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie and especially Fats Waller. I have all of Fats's recordings and he goofs off a lot, and there are many music videos where he pulls funny faces, including puckering his mouth and rolling his eyes. Fats even recorded songs that people could gripe about today, such as "Big Chief Desoto", in which he goes woo woo woo like a Red Indian. One liner note writer said that one lyric about women would be regarded as offensive today. Quit searching for ways to be offended by harmless things. That is what Muslims do all the time. This cartoon comes under the heading of Caricature, not "racism". When you caricature someone, you exaggerate their features. It is not meant as an insult. Look at the way they caricature Katherine Hepburn, all the way through the cartoon. No complaints about that, because she is not black.
Ned Sparks: Yes. Very funny. They're killing me.........
Me: Squidward? Is that you??
Bears a striking resemblance to the time Spongebob entered Squidward's dream.
Love how Hepburn says Rally instead of really.
"Rally, she does."
One of my favorite Disney cartoons they used to show (though I remember a lot of it being censored). I recognize Joe Grant's knack for caricature here. I only knew a handful of the celebrities shown here when I was a kid, but as I got older and watched more movies, I recognized a lot of the stars retroactively through these kinds of cartoons. I saw someone compare these shorts to a number of Dreamworks' movies, particularly the earlier ones - they rely heavily on pop culture and current stardom, only to become more dated and have the references fall deeper into obscurity as time goes on. Also, they both end with a dance party. Maybe this is where Katzenburg got it from. It makes me wonder if 50 years from now kids will react to Shrek, Bee Movie and Shark Tale the way most kids would to seeing something like this now. Well, all that aside, I still like this one a lot.
TheITinFIT T. Hee deserves credit for the caricatures here, Joe did them for Mickey's Gala Premiere and Mickey's Polo Team. T. Hee is responsible for the caricatures as they appear in this and in Donald Duck's The Autograph Hound.
I notice that they go straight to stereotypes for quick recognition. It's not as bad as I thought it'd be.
Haha! Bopeep was sooo perfect, that voice.
Holy MOLY!!!!! Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx!!!!!!! SO CUTE, i wish they show more cartoons like this.
The puppet in the birds nest is Charlie McCarthy. He was from the radio show "The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show". Yay!
Awesome about Garbo with Edward Robinson...she quotes "I vant to be alone"...very famously...oh whoa, her shoes were too large...ha! Fabulous cartoon, thanks alot! I enjoyed it!
Ole King Cole is a caricature of Hugh Herbert, the jester Ned Sparks, and Joe Penner holding the pot.
The Three Men in a Tub sequence has Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh from "Mutiny on the Bounty", Spencer Tracy as Manual from "Captains Courageous" fishing Freddie Bartholomew as "David Copperfield" out of the water.
The jitterbugs are Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye.
The only part I went, "Whoa! Easy there!"
Was when Hepburn gets the blackberry pie in the face, essentially black-facing her, & starts speaking in a black Southern accent.
I like how they portrayed Cab Calloway, and Katherine Hepburn.
Such a great idea, portraying Hollywood stars from 30s as Mother Goose characters! And the goose parodying the M-G-M lion is priceless! Alright, it may be politically incorrect due to some stereotypes, but its artistic and historical importance is definitive! I didn't know this cartoon, so many thanks for posting!
I would watch these cartoons (both Disney and Looney Tunes) and I learned about old timey movie stars from, I didn't know their names, but I remember how they were parodied, the animators from both companies always parodied them the same way
Hepburn: Rally I am!
Garbo: I vant to be ah-looone
I still don't know a lot of their names
Both Disney and Looney Tunes are probably the most iconic cartoons to come out of the golden age of American animation :) these are perhaps some big factors to why.
that was a spot on Katherine Hepburn impression they did! Greatness! XD
04:55- "Okay, babe, you asked for it!" You said it, Edward G. Robinson!
in a Warner Brothers cartoon they spoofed Martha Raye as a donkey. They called her Moutha Bray. The scat-song she sang was very similar heard in this cartoon. At first I thought of Judy Canova because of the braids but then as you mentioned, why would she be singing jazz and wearing shoes. Most caricatures of Judy had her in her country girl clothes and barefoot.
I looked up the Cass Daley actress...she was similar but the 'big mouth' in this cartoon was obviously patterned after Martha Raye.
I am so glad I'm not the only one on here who loves to do KH impressions. . .X-D
"I love this cartoon. . .really I do . . ".
That was great! I don't think I recall this cartoon but, I loved it! Thank you! :)
Fats and the Duke were both pianists. The trumpeter was Satchmo.
I'm a 20 year living in the new millennium and even I recognize half of those celebrities. coincidental my ass. Nice try Disney
+thephysicwerewolf most 20 year old have no idea who the Marx Brother's are
really? I thought they were a household name at this point.
+thephysicwerewolf the "coincidental" is part of the satire. Not only a "Nice try Disney," it worked.
it was joke.....
Daws Butler was doing an impression of Joe E Brown when he voiced those two characters, Lippy the Lion and Peter Potamus.
Ah ^_^ I learned about Hugh Herbert a few days back.
The lady dancing with Joe E. Brown is Martha Raye. I suspected that but wasn't totally sure, since I didn't recognize her hair -- I've never seen it in braids.
Turns out the three women at the end are, left to right, Edna Mae Oliver, Joan Blondell, Zazu Pitts.
The two actors in the See-Saw are Edward G. Robinson and Greta Garbo.
"I whant so much to be alone" Haha, thats Garbo right there
this cartoon is soo funny i loved the hepburn bit! i love old cartoons that have caricatures. i like to guess who's who!!! thanks for putting this up!
How Michael Jackson lost his sheep?
@ekeby ALSO the three girl horn players: Edna Mae Oliver, Mae West, & Zazu Pitts. Saxophone player with monocle: George Arliss. @others: girl in red dress is Martha Rae, not Judy Garland
Interestingly, for Kate and Spence to be in the same animated shot (@2:35) in 1938, 4 years before their, ahem, union..Must've been some fun trivia for them thru their lives!
Also, Fred Astaire dancing @ 6:37 anticipates his short scene in "Triplets of Bellville" some 66 years later!
I love how they imitate Katharine Hepburn in these cartoons (but I love even more to imitate her myself) X-P
"I've lost my sheep, rele' ah have. . .they were such love-le sheep, really they were. . ." I'm only 19, so the first time I saw this cartoon I only got like 2 or 3 of the references to the Hollywood actors/entertainers. But now I'm such a geek about classic movies from the 30's-50's, I recognized just about everyone! I love this cartoon (Rele' I do. . . .) ^_^
Just what I was looking for. Thank you
there's caricatures of Judy on several movie poster's. there was also a comic book with Judy as the focal point. there's a movie poster for "The WAC from Walla Walla". Google the image...ironically the drawing has her with a big mouth...but she has the pig-tails, too.
But I did find out that Judy and Joe E Brown co-starred in some movies together. One was "Chatterbox" and the other was "Joan of Ozark"...so maybe it's Judy in the cartoon!?!
The braids say Judy but the scat singing say Martha.
Kate's impression was hilarious! xD
a lot of "music" oriented names served as banners for the cartoons...
Silly Symphonies...Merrie Melodies...Looney Tunes...then there were Happy Harmonies...Terrytoons...Harveytoons...and the actual directing team of Harmon-Ising, named for Hugh Harmon and Rudolf Ising, if said fast comes out as "harmonizing".
Also, at the end of a Walter Lantz cartoon it would read "A Walter Lantz Cartune".
I'm not sure if anyone noticed this, but the duck is supposed to be the MGM lion.
6:41 - What song did Cab Calloway sing in this part of the video? It's * It has a catchy tune! ( Avalible for Answering)
I think Gabo was the one who intro'd Cab Calloway... right before the "Black Birds in a Pie" segment
I was here because of Donald Duck.
Lets see. There was this cartoon and "Hollywood Steps Out". Wasn't there another similar cartoon involving a taxi chase? I want to say Greta Garbo was one of the celebrities featured. Maybe Marlene Dietrich. Anybody know the name of that one?
Oh god...I love Katy Hepburn in this! ... and Dietrech...perfect perfect. Wish they still made cartoons of this quality.
That wasn't Martha Raye with Joe E. Brown - it was Judy Canova. It's the pigtails...
katharine hepburn makes a great cartoon character.
Slow talking guy dancing w/Astaire = Steppin' Fetchit
The large mouth scat singers were of course Martha Raye and Joe E. Brown
I so love it especially with the NL subs
5:10 - Cab Calloway.
We ARE "considering the time period" and it's STILL racist! "Considering the time period " doesnt excuse anything. The black man who "dances a few" shufflin steps before tiring out is the old stereotype of sayin blacks were lazy shiftless, had big feets and just shuffled along. That was a cultural label ascribed to us, and yes, one should be upet by this. From a pure caricature standpoint I can appreciate the way the drawings are depicted being a caricature artist myself.
5/5 for the only black face gag on a female character I've ever seen. :-)
@102936 though, from the looks of it, he's dressed in the costume from his David Copperfield role.
Not a big fan of the subtitles, but I can't help but approve of anything with Cab Calloway in it~
Who's the lady in red, dancing in the end?
I recall a cartoon where celebs like Laurel and Hardy, came out of upright coffins to tip their hat, then go back inside. Am I dreaming this, or is this a real cartoon?
Love the Joe Penner impression
If all of us are abkevto laugh at ourselves and each other more, the world can be a better place
oh lawdy, love this toons
When Katharine Hepburn gets pied in the face cracks me the fuck up.
Crazy seeing your favorite actress in a cartoon. And as Little Bo Peep.
Pleasure is mine, anytime.
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what's Wallace Beery got to do with playing a trumpet???
diddymuck Hey, I saw your comment in the Hollywood Picnic 1937 video.
Can anyone list out where these characters are ? "W. C. Fields, Spencer Tracy,, Edward G. Robinson, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Greta Garbo, Cab CALLOWAY."
I don't know them by face.
+Archishman Ghosh I feel there are others not listed here. Who are they?
Charlie McCarthy
Wait, why was the Mother Goose one banned?
I loved the Marx Brothers bit best. Fantastic caricatures.
I remember I had this particular short recorded on an old VHS tape long, long ago...They had cut out the scene where Catherine gets pied in the face, and then they simply ended it right at 5:08, and until watching this uncut version and seeing the all the racial stuff, I had always wondered why they cut it!!
" Due to those racist stereotypes, this cartoon has been banned" From the description.
I love stuff like this!!!
I laughed SO hard when it showed Joe E. Brown XDD
At least Disney included us. And we looked silly yes, but that's like every other character there! The only thing that makes it racist is that most of the Black characters look the SAME, and that the woman who is the object of beauty to the Black man had a much lighter skin tone than he did. Still, I liked it.
Banned by who?
are u sure this is 1938? Because WC Fields says "my little chickadee" which came out...'40 or so?
No, Silly Symphonies were Disney. Warner Brothers had Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
Who's the woman supposed to be that kisses the Joe E Brown character towards the end?
Now, that's what an animated Katharine Hepburn looks like. I don't get people who claim that B&tB's Belle was based on Hepburn... they look nothing alike.
04:20- Sorry Mr. Hardy!
wow cartoons have come a long way from then to niw
well, its nice to see you again mr. insult. say, have you seen vitor around? because, since he's so good (at comments), you wanna ask him if he'd like to try?
Completely True. They were simply using obsrvatonal skills on a famous actor.
You wanna buy a duck? LOL!
@altobiotero 3 female horn players...Edna Mae Oliver, Mae West?, and Zazu Pitts. next came Clark Gable and George Arliss.
Not really. Drawings like this are still popular today. They do them at fairs, parks, and amusement parks.
well, you know...black comics tend to engage each other with all kinds of lingo and they treat one another as if they're a part of this fraternity of some sort and yet if white actors want to spoof that then the black audiences call it racism when all it is, is a spoof of their culture.
a good majority, in my opinion, feel as if they're immune from comedy or derision unless it's from within their own ethnicity. it's a racial double-standard.
Check Martha Raye in "Waikiki Wedding", too.
"Very funny! Very funny! Off with their heads!"
A little harsh, you think?
The Disney writers went out of their way not to offend their audiences (at least their WASP audiences). As a result, Disney cartoons generally miss the touch of slightly malicious mischief that made the WB cartoons great.
Love the "OLD SCHOOL CARTOONS", thank you
Pleasure is mine, anytime.
I wonder why the Three Stooges were not in this cartoon.
Hepburn's Bo Peep is my Favorite.
I recognize fats waller as the black guy on the piano, and the marx brothers were in old king cole!
Better than most 15 years olds!
Forget political Correctness, I'm MORE surprised Disney was able to Rip-off MGM at the beginning.
This was two years before Tom and Jerry...
Little Bo Peep/Katharine Hepburn: I've lost my sheep. **chocolate pie hits her in the face and now she looks like a black woman** Is any of you old folks seen my sheep anywhere?
I know it's kinda racist, but I thinks that's kinda funny. XD lol
I can't get enough of the piano guy's "YEAH!" His facial expression is so RAD.
I've seen this one pop up on various sites and networks over the years. The only change usually, is the "blackbirds in a pie" scene and the some of the "woman in a shoe" scene are cut.
Wow. What fun! Filled with memories.
Eddie Cantor is the guy who's slapping his hands together at 5:03 prior to Calloway emerging from the pie.
Boy Blue is Wallace Beery. George Arliss is the guy in the scene with Clark Gable. Ned Sparks was seen as the jester. Hugh Herbert is the King. the characters near the end are Joe E Brown and Martha Raye. Martha was known as 'The Big Mouth' so that more than likely is her. Joe Penner is featured in the 'Wanna Buy a Duck' segment with Donald.
Anybody that says this is racist has to realize this is characters made to exaggerate all races
kay fowler devine Right. They didn't talk that way in real life. They portrayed characters that did.
+kay fowler devine you are so right i'm black and i couldn't stop laughing at that part
+Albert Pringle
you mean the "blackbirds" scene?
+Bangbaby84 Stop being a dumb ignorant ass troll.
A pre-production sketch from this, of Kate Hepburn losing her sheep (a drawing of the shot where she says "I've lost my sheep. Really, I have") drawn by Disney was part of the big Katherine Hepburn Estate Sale a few years back. Can't remember what it ended up selling for. I forgot what auction house handled the sale. There was quite a bit of really nice Louis Vuitton luggage and bags in the sale, too, including a steamer wardrobe trunk that went for $24,000+ (!!).
6:55 It's mutiny... but I love it... hahaha WTF
Ah, Ed Wynn as Old King Cole; for a bit of trivia, Ed Wynn has been in a few Disney feature films, including "Alice in Wonderland" and "Mary Poppins".
Actually, that's Hugh Herbert as Old King Cole.
+glowworm2 Oh, my bad.