My Grandfather Allen Rose wrote this!

3:38 😭"Why you no swing?!" I miss these old cartoons 🤣🤣

Here is another partial list: Edna May Oliver, Martha Raye, George Raft, Edward G. Robinson, Claudette Colbert, James Cagney, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Joan Crawford, Herman Bing, Shirley Temple, Hugh Herbert, Greta Garbo, Mickey Rooney, Cary Grant, Benny Goodman, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Joe E. Brown, Bing Crosby, William Powell, John Barrymore, Jack Benny, Clark Gable, Leopold Stokowski, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Wallace Beery, May Robson, Edward Everett Horton, Akim Tamiroff, Kay Francis, Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor, Jeanette MacDonald, and Nelson Eddy

A fantastic piece of cartoon history featuring a star studded cast of caricaturos of golden age hollywood.

Two favorite themes in late 1930s cartoons: caricatures of Hollywood stars, and applying swing music rhythms to old-fashioned stuff. 1939 audiences would've recognized all these performers easily...today, very few will know them.

I don't think anyone correctly identified the annoying little girl who starts this entire thing off by demanding her daddy tell her a story. She is Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, who was the star of her own radio show in which she played this obnoxious character. Two of her gag catch-phrases were "Why??" (said repeatedly) and "I don't wanna!" You'll notice the first appears several times in this cartoon.

I'm sure I'm not the first to think this - - those heads looked scary!

incredible work considering it was entirely hand drawn without rotoscoping.

Never get tired of this!

Here are more recognizable celeb caricatures: Hugh "Woo-Woo" Herbert, Ned Sparks ( dancing with the Great Kate ), Benny Goodman, Joe E. Brown, Robert Taylor, William Powell, Jack Benny, Leopold Stokowski ( who was seen in "Fantasia"...and he's jitterbugging with Garbo, big feet and all!! ), Fred & Ginger, Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney and a young Joan Crawford. The other stars were probably big in the '30s but have become obscure over time.

This cartoon was Incredible!

This cartoon is so funny and cute love it. Thanks for sharing the video and for the laughs.

Mel Blanc and Sara Berner voiced various characters.

Lançamento nos EUA: 18 de dezembro de 1939. Produção: Charles Mintz. Direção: Manny Gould. Roteiro: Allen Rose. Animação: Ben Harrison. Musica: Joe DeNat. Vozes: Elvia Allman (bebê Snooks), Sarah Berner (Mamãe Gansa, Martha Raye e Greta Garbo), Mel Blanc (várias) e Dave Weber (várias).

I received many guesses who may be in this cartoon. Can you verify any of these?Here is a list of women-- Shirley Temple, Ginger Rogers, Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn, Martha Raye, Jeanette MacDonald, Gumm Sisters, Edna Mae, Fannie Brice, Kay Francis, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert, Dorothy Lamour.

I Love It So Much

3:38 Henry Fonda

They are grotesque looking

It Has Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in a Cameo in This Cartoon. at 5:17. NYUK-NYUK-NYUK! WOO-WOO-WOO! HEY MOE! HEY LARRY!

Yup, Seems like everyone is here.

😅😅😅well information good show 😅😅😅

I'm transcribing this song

A partial list from Connie --- judy garland, fred astaire & ginger rogers, katherine hepburn, laurel & hardy

2:45 Rhett butler from gone with the wind

Clark Gable without His Mustache 4:11. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

5:34 Robinson

This was done by the 3 stooges studio, Columbia, surprised they are not here

Approaching the end of the 1930s, thankfully these 1930s movie star caricature dance party cartoons' days were numbered.

at 3:35 who is the guy persuaded to dance by Henry Armetta? Fredrick March? looks for all the world like Don Adams!!!

Columbia really didn't have the same kind of artistry that Disney or WB had to pull of celebrity caricatures.

Does anyone know who the fellow on the left at 3:35 is? He sort of looks like Don Adams, but I know it couldn't be him. Does anyone know who the three gals are near the end? I thought they might be the Andrews Sisters.

3:24 who's the white haired lady dancing with Wallace Beery?

Who are the two with William Powell?

4: 13 Clark gable say?

Clark Gable ....... Edward G, Robinson

Disney's Mother Goose Goes Hollywood released the same year as this was better.

2:45 Is the saxophonist supposed to be Hitchcock?

Fred Allen?

No! Charles Mintz died in 1939! NO GOOD!!!

THDADDAY. WATCHA DOOIN

Ha this is so funny Greta garbo ,Clarke gamble ,Mickye rooney ,The Marx brothers y many moore i love it this cartoon

I don’t like the old cartoons with celebrities of that time cameos, it’s weird, they look ugly

This girls voice is annoying af

I recognized a whole bunch but could put names to all of them. Edna Mae Oliver is Mother Goose of course. Then in more or less order of appearance: Martha Rae Edward G. Robinson Claudette Colbert James Cagney Katherine Hepburn Hugh Herbert Cary Grant Benny Goodman Laurel and Hardy W.C. Fields The Marx Bros. Joe E. Leonard Bing Crosby Jack Benny Clark Gable Toscanini Fred and Ginger Greta Garbo Mickey Rooney Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald Robert Taylor

Really enjoy these timeless cartoons.

Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Ginger & Fred, Shirley Temple, Bing Crosby, Katherine Hepburn, Tyrone Power, Judy Garland

Since the color rhapsody cartoons were Columbia, the absence of The Three Stooges is peculiar.

Funny to see Ned Sparks in a dance routine.

And the Men -- Edward G. Robinson, Cary Grant, W. C. Fields, Hugh Herbert, Mickey Rooney, Laurel & Hardy, Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Jack Benny, Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Leopold Stakowski, Benny Goodman, Joe E. Brown, William Powell, Nelson Eddy, Tyrone Powell, Spencer Tracy, Hoagy Carmichael, Edward Everett Horton, Victor Mature, George Raft, James Cagney, Ned Sparks, and Herman Bing,.

1:56 Cary grants with two lambs

I like the caricatures of Tyrone Power, Edward G. Robinson, and Robert Taylor at 5:34.

Jack Benny playing violin in the band!

Well, someone at Mintz watched 'Mother Goose Goes Hollywood'.

Okay, lets see if we can pinpoint these a bit better. I've never seen so many depictions in one cartoon like this. Edna Mae Oliver is Mother Goose. We then have 8 figures playing A tisket, a tasket. Among them is Martha Raye (thought that was her), Greta Garbo, Edward G. Robinson and Hugh Herbert. Is that other one supposed to be James Cagney? Who's the sailor and who is that between Cagney and Robinson? She looks like Cindy Williams of Laverne and Shirley. Okay, the sailor lost his cap and a blonde girl has appeared. Who on Earth is that that approaches the crying girl? Cary Grant, Marx bros, Stan and Ollie, WC Fields, recognize all of them. William Powell, got him. Joe E. Brown on the trombone? Don't know either of the clarinetists. Is that Bing Crosby on the drums? Of the eight in the band, Gable, Hugh Herbert back there, Jack Benny with the violin, of course. Stokowlski leading the band. No idea who those two are after Fred and Ginger. And surely those two guys aren't supposed to be Jerry Colonna and Ned Sparks. Greta Garbo dancing with Stokowlski. Mickey Rooney with the Baby Snooks, looking like Judy Garland, of course. Then Katherine Hepburn with what looks like Ned Sparks. Then Nelson Eddy and Jeannette McDonald. Then out of the three ladies and the three guys, the only one I can positively pinpoint is Edward G. Robinson.

Wow!!

What I got (won't repeat if shown more than once): Snooks/Fanny Brice, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn, George Raft?, Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery, Shirley Temple(?) Cary Grant Benny Goodman, Laurel & Hardy W.C Fields, The Marx Brothers Joe E Brown Spencer Tracy, Bing Crosby, William Powell Robert Taylor? Peter Lorre? Clark Gable Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Henry Fonda?, Xavier Cugat? Mickey Rooney Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Kay Francis, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor

By the way, where did you get this? Is it available on a DVD?

The cartoon itself is nowhere near as good as Mother Goose goes Hollywood, but the music is better by far

2:26 joe e brown with trumpet

how could they leave out eddie cantor?? ahhh

lol @ the ABCs.. to be honest, I've never heard it end like that Double-u and X Y Z lollllll

1:44 raye look like Hayworth

1:56 grants

At 3:38 that is definitely Edward Everett Horton on the left (doing his trademark double-take) but who is on the right? He's the only caricature I haven't got figured out thanks to all the comments. He makes a "ch-ch-ch" sound which he must have been known for in his day. Someone named Henry Armetta in an earlier comment and it really does look like him, so I'm going with that... The three women dancing I had thought were (L to R) Dorothy Lamour, Rita Hayworth, and Claudette Colbert but someone else said that the one on the left is Kay Francis and I think they are right. And who is the guy on the left where Bing Crosby is in the middle and William Powell on the right? Anyone know? My mom who was 10 when this cartoon came out thinks it looks like Danny Kaye, and it does, but he wasn't really known in films by 1939. I think it looks like Red Skelton but it was a tad early for him too. Mom now thinks Spencer Tracy...

Please, does anyone know who is the man writing in the beginning?

the fella with the Dutch accent, is that Herman Bing?

5:48-5:59 1938 on crack folks