Oswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues.Oswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues.Oswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues.
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- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Tex Avery
- King Cole (some lines)
- (uncredited)
- …
Walter Lantz
- Lamb
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Walter Lantz
- William Nolan(credit only)
- Writers
- Les Kline(uncredited)
- Walter Lantz(uncredited)
- Manuel Moreno(uncredited)
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Storyline
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- TriviaMany celebrities appear in caricature. Charles Chaplin is asleep in a bed without a mattress. He reappears later shooting pies like a machine gun. Greta Garbo has a cigarette holder and a pair of enormous feet. Ed Wynn, driving a fire truck, carries (from left to right) Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Joe E. Brown, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Will Rogers twirls a rope and rides a pig. Paul Whiteman is the bandleader with an orchestra full of self-duplicates. Roscoe Ates is the stuttering singer. Brown (now dressed in a baseball uniform), Edna May Oliver and W.C. Fields sing about Peter Piper. Al Jolson appears in blackface. Mae West sings about Humpty Dumpty. Laurel and Hardy reappear to start a pie fight. Jimmy Durante hides in a suit of armor. Harold Lloyd has windshield wipers on his glasses. Zasu Pitts frets and says, "Oh, dear." Zeppo Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx and Groucho Marx pop out of a trunk.
- GoofsThe jester ties a rope around Oswald's neck and then (thanks to an animation mistake, not a continuity error) it immediately vanishes.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Tooth: So long, old pal.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Toon in with Me: Hazardous Henry the Final Episode (2021)
Featured review
The Merry Old Soul
Whilst at the dentist having a particularly stubborn tooth removed, "Oswald" the rabbit (whom I could have sworn was a mouse) hears an announcement that is made over that radio announcing "Old King Cole" has the blues. He must quickly recruit everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Laurel & Hardy and try and cheer the old man up! Sitting, grumpily on his throne, a parade of folks come to try and lift his spirits with hits from the "Mother Goose" songbook! A few familiar faces from stage and literature are drafted in and along the way we get a parade of what made us laugh and tap our toes back in the early 1930s. It's a compendium affair, this, which at times works fine but is largely just an excuse to trot out some vaudeville style comedy - pie throwing, etc. You can play a game of guess who you recognise if you like - I suspect that's really the point. It's fine, and the caricature animations quite fun, but it's hardly memorable.
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- Mar 23, 2024
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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