Mother Goose Goes Hollywood poster

Mother Goose Goes Hollywood( 1938)

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Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Al Bernie

      (voice)

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      Thelma Boardman

      (voice)

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      Ann Lee

      (voice)

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      Dave Weber

      (voice)

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      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)

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      Sara Berner

      Katharine Hepburn / Martha Raye / Greta Garbo / Freddie Bartholomew (voice) (uncredited)

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      Clarence Nash

      Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)

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      Danny Webb

      Fats Waller / Stepin Fetchit (voice) (uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Jun 28 2025
    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 & Hardy, 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...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    69308.00

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • musical