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Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)

Mother Goose Goes Hollywood poster
Directed by
Wilfred Jackson
Genre
animated cartoon
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rated
NR
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This animated short reimagines Mother Goose nursery rhymes with caricatures of 1930s Hollywood celebrities. Famous stars appear as nursery rhyme characters in a series of comedic scenes.

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What happens

Mother Goose Goes Hollywood is a 1938 Silly Symphonies animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The short was released on December 23, 1938. The film parodies several Mother Goose nursery rhymes using caricatures of popular Hollywood film stars of the 1930s. The film was directed by Wilfred Jackson and was the third-to-last Silly Symphony produced. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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