Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
(1938)
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.
Director
Wilfred Jackson
Writers
Ed Penner, Leo Ellis, Webb Smith, Peter O'Crotty, Dick Rickard, Isadore Klein, T. Hee
Top Billed
Al Bernie
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Where to watch
Top Billed Cast
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)
Sara Berner
Katharine Hepburn / Martha Raye / Greta Garbo / Freddie Bartholomew (voice) (uncredited)
Crew
Reviews
CinemaSerf
⭐ 6/10June 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… read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$69,308
Revenue
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