Mother Goose Goes To Hollywood (1938)

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17 жыл бұрын

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.
More about Cab CALLOWAY , Go to www.thehidehoblog.com

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@katemctiernan7167 9 жыл бұрын

I have never seen this one before! Cartoons that uses caricatures of old Hollywood stars are always my favorite.

@Super_Mario128 8 жыл бұрын

+Kate McTiernan cartoons like these were intended for adults and shown in the cinema before the main movie alongside various newsreels.

@katemctiernan7167 8 жыл бұрын

waterfieldV 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.

@Arthur_McGowan 8 жыл бұрын

+Kate McTiernan Disney cartoons were never sold to television like the other studios' cartoons.

@jreiland07 10 жыл бұрын

The best thing about all these banned cartoons? The music. Cab Calloway was a legend.

@lougibbs8614 7 жыл бұрын

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.

@_milehighmusic_ 7 жыл бұрын

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.

@phillygirlsoso5717 8 жыл бұрын

wow i'm black and i find it damn funny why was it banned ? they was making fun of every race

@maeganclemo5201 8 жыл бұрын

I agree. I remember watching this as a child. Maybe some people just got all upset and it went from there.

@jeanhodgson8623 8 жыл бұрын

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.

@naturesquad9174 8 жыл бұрын

+LOVE They were poking fun at Hollywood actors....and black people

@naturesquad9174 8 жыл бұрын

+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.

@jeanhodgson8623 8 жыл бұрын

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.

@Jakegothicsnake 10 жыл бұрын

Ned Sparks: Yes. Very funny. They're killing me......... Me: Squidward? Is that you??

@Aurochhunter 2 ай бұрын

Bears a striking resemblance to the time Spongebob entered Squidward's dream.

@ruthiehenshallfan99 8 жыл бұрын

Love how Hepburn says Rally instead of really.

@elizabethalvarado8698 8 жыл бұрын

"Rally, she does."

@TheITinFIT 9 жыл бұрын

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.

@josephnixon5509 7 жыл бұрын

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.

@jlee6771 11 жыл бұрын

Holy MOLY!!!!! Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx!!!!!!! SO CUTE, i wish they show more cartoons like this.

@wickedfan7681 14 жыл бұрын

Haha! Bopeep was sooo perfect, that voice.

@DavidGarbo 17 жыл бұрын

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!

@RamonNZ 8 жыл бұрын

I notice that they go straight to stereotypes for quick recognition. It's not as bad as I thought it'd be.

@califgirl101 16 жыл бұрын

That was great! I don't think I recall this cartoon but, I loved it! Thank you! :)

@Aja-Christian 13 жыл бұрын

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 . . ".

@ZeksterMesker 14 жыл бұрын

that was a spot on Katherine Hepburn impression they did! Greatness! XD

@christinebarney3682 9 жыл бұрын

Just what I was looking for. Thank you

@Jal8919536 16 жыл бұрын

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.

@jennarmstrong3685 10 жыл бұрын

I like how they portrayed Cab Calloway, and Katherine Hepburn.

@GuerilleroX 13 жыл бұрын

"I whant so much to be alone" Haha, thats Garbo right there

@jojesaky16 16 жыл бұрын

The puppet in the birds nest is Charlie McCarthy. He was from the radio show "The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show". Yay!

@elizabethalvarado8698 8 жыл бұрын

04:55- "Okay, babe, you asked for it!" You said it, Edward G. Robinson!

@mabelnormand7244 17 жыл бұрын

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!

@haileyshannon7548 9 жыл бұрын

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

@danbam3411 8 жыл бұрын

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.

@thephysicwerewolf 8 жыл бұрын

I'm a 20 year living in the new millennium and even I recognize half of those celebrities. coincidental my ass. Nice try Disney

@albertpringle3397 8 жыл бұрын

+thephysicwerewolf most 20 year old have no idea who the Marx Brother's are

@thephysicwerewolf 8 жыл бұрын

really? I thought they were a household name at this point.

@bachrocktheamericahatersan5799 8 жыл бұрын

+thephysicwerewolf the "coincidental" is part of the satire. Not only a "Nice try Disney," it worked.

@thephysicwerewolf 8 жыл бұрын

it was joke.....

@acla9000 15 жыл бұрын

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!

@Aja-Christian 14 жыл бұрын

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. . . .) ^_^

@ACcountryFan 15 жыл бұрын

Daws Butler was doing an impression of Joe E Brown when he voiced those two characters, Lippy the Lion and Peter Potamus.

@MisterEsoteric 15 жыл бұрын

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!

@LouieYouTuber 7 жыл бұрын

6:41 - What song did Cab Calloway sing in this part of the video? It's * It has a catchy tune! ( Avalible for Answering)

@JutashiII 11 жыл бұрын

Kate's impression was hilarious! xD

@XenaSocioPath 16 жыл бұрын

Oh god...I love Katy Hepburn in this! ... and Dietrech...perfect perfect. Wish they still made cartoons of this quality.

@ragemanchoo82 16 жыл бұрын

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.

@marykmusic 17 жыл бұрын

Fats and the Duke were both pianists. The trumpeter was Satchmo.

@ACcountryFan 15 жыл бұрын

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.

@zerothedragon 16 жыл бұрын

oh lawdy, love this toons

@ACcountryFan 15 жыл бұрын

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".

@ACcountryFan 15 жыл бұрын

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.

@bobtewari7129 Жыл бұрын

I so love it especially with the NL subs

@MatthewPippin 16 жыл бұрын

I love stuff like this!!!

@diddymuck 17 жыл бұрын

Slow talking guy dancing w/Astaire = Steppin' Fetchit The large mouth scat singers were of course Martha Raye and Joe E. Brown

@ekeby 13 жыл бұрын

@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

@cubantoro 16 жыл бұрын

The two actors in the See-Saw are Edward G. Robinson and Greta Garbo.

@Thetrue777luck777 6 жыл бұрын

How Michael Jackson lost his sheep?

@randomrfkov 6 жыл бұрын

5:10 - Cab Calloway.

@mlleprufrock 17 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if anyone noticed this, but the duck is supposed to be the MGM lion.

@stanleycoleman 12 жыл бұрын

katharine hepburn makes a great cartoon character.

@medamine39 16 жыл бұрын

Pleasure is mine, anytime.

@AudiGal09 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@themadwhistler 13 жыл бұрын

I laughed SO hard when it showed Joe E. Brown XDD

@KartikPatel-nt4ff 25 күн бұрын

😅😅😅well information good show you 😅😅😅

@kenzieiscool1537 12 жыл бұрын

I loved the Marx Brothers bit best. Fantastic caricatures.

@valerievargas1548 7 жыл бұрын

I was here because of Donald Duck.

@Archiekunst 8 жыл бұрын

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.

@Archiekunst 8 жыл бұрын

+Archishman Ghosh I feel there are others not listed here. Who are they?

@Guernicaman 8 жыл бұрын

Charlie McCarthy

@Guernicaman 8 жыл бұрын

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.

@Pri03 17 жыл бұрын

I think Gabo was the one who intro'd Cab Calloway... right before the "Black Birds in a Pie" segment

@elizabethalvarado8698 8 жыл бұрын

04:20- Sorry Mr. Hardy!

@abdsamad1959 9 жыл бұрын

If all of us are abkevto laugh at ourselves and each other more, the world can be a better place

@themaxxray 14 жыл бұрын

Love the Joe Penner impression

@ragemanchoo82 16 жыл бұрын

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?

@102936 14 жыл бұрын

@102936 though, from the looks of it, he's dressed in the costume from his David Copperfield role.

@beanybeanbean 15 жыл бұрын

1:49 LOL

@MislaidAlbum 12 жыл бұрын

Not a big fan of the subtitles, but I can't help but approve of anything with Cab Calloway in it~

@Demildiel 16 жыл бұрын

XD I like this one.

@tulllguy 7 жыл бұрын

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?

@ThatGothicChick 17 жыл бұрын

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!!

@IBetYouWill 15 жыл бұрын

5/5 for the only black face gag on a female character I've ever seen. :-)

@molinalong3468 7 жыл бұрын

5:56 gable

@diddymuck 8 жыл бұрын

what's Wallace Beery got to do with playing a trumpet???

@LouieYouTuber 7 жыл бұрын

diddymuck Hey, I saw your comment in the Hollywood Picnic 1937 video.

@corashay5751 6 жыл бұрын

wow cartoons have come a long way from then to niw

@skrewster 16 жыл бұрын

Who's the lady in red, dancing in the end?

@MislaidAlbum 14 жыл бұрын

CAB!

@Kuce 16 жыл бұрын

You wanna buy a duck? LOL!

@kent1222 17 жыл бұрын

That wasn't Martha Raye with Joe E. Brown - it was Judy Canova. It's the pigtails...

@princesstamika 17 жыл бұрын

" Due to those racist stereotypes, this cartoon has been banned" From the description.

@diddymuck 13 жыл бұрын

@altobiotero 3 female horn players...Edna Mae Oliver, Mae West?, and Zazu Pitts. next came Clark Gable and George Arliss.

@molinalong3468 7 жыл бұрын

4:45 Garbo and Robinson

@wiebling 14 жыл бұрын

Completely True. They were simply using obsrvatonal skills on a famous actor.

@102936 14 жыл бұрын

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.

@CK2012 7 жыл бұрын

Banned by who?

@morqwal 11 жыл бұрын

that is a good point. i think there is a difference between stereotype and racism. a vague, wavy line, but still a line all the same. one is more comical, the other more hurtful and hateful. i think there are and were racist cartoons, but i think a lot that are called racist are actually not and should fall into the category of stereotype, which, as in South Park, is not a bad thing in and of itself, but if construed literally by buffoons it can add to the actual hatred.

@laura20022004 16 жыл бұрын

omg the marx brothers hahahahah i laugh

@dhandharum6040 4 жыл бұрын

5:03 eddie cantor?

@morqwal 11 жыл бұрын

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?

@marcblack1 7 жыл бұрын

Love the "OLD SCHOOL CARTOONS", thank you

@medamine39 16 жыл бұрын

Pleasure is mine, anytime.

@NCC-1701 8 жыл бұрын

Hepburn's Bo Peep is my Favorite.

@MARTINZWEIBACK 8 жыл бұрын

Wow. What fun! Filled with memories.

@Jakegothicsnake 10 жыл бұрын

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

@filmaddict818 15 жыл бұрын

I've lost my sheep, really I have! Classic. Even more classic than the film it comes from!!

@TheRepty818 8 жыл бұрын

6:55 It's mutiny... but I love it... hahaha WTF

@PIXPromosMore 10 жыл бұрын

Forget political Correctness, I'm MORE surprised Disney was able to Rip-off MGM at the beginning.

@danbam3411 8 жыл бұрын

This was two years before Tom and Jerry...

@MrRainandThunderrelaxingsounds 13 жыл бұрын

I can't get enough of the piano guy's "YEAH!" His facial expression is so RAD.

@sir1junior 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for upping this.

@mohammedjalloh7658 8 жыл бұрын

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!

@lilgiggler35 8 жыл бұрын

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.

@ACcountryFan 15 жыл бұрын

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.

@ragemanchoo82 16 жыл бұрын

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+ (!!).