Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

1938 PG-13 8m

5.6 / 10 32

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5.6/10

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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.

Director Wilfred Jackson

Writers

Ed Penner Peter O'Crotty Dick Rickard

Stars

Al Bernie Thelma Boardman Ann Lee

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)

Sara Berner

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

Clarence Nash

Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)

Danny Webb

Fats Waller / Stepin Fetchit (voice) (uncredited)

Animation Comedy

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Geronimo1967 29 Jun 2025

6/10

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 nai...