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
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Al Bernie
(voice)
Thelma Boardman
(voice)
Ann Lee
(voice)
Dave Weber
(voice)
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)
Clarence Nash
Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)
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. Ro…
