Fun and Fancy Free (1947)

G09/27/1947Animation, Music1h 13m
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Overview

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Edgar Bergen

    Himself / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd

  2. Cast 1

    Dinah Shore

    Narrator (voice)

  3. Cast 1

    Luana Patten

    Herself

  4. Cast 1

    Walt Disney

    Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

  5. Anita Gordon

    Singing Harp (voice)

  6. Cast 1

    Cliff Edwards

    Jiminy Cricket (voice)

  7. Cast 1

    Clarence Nash

    Donald Duck / Cat (voice)

  8. Cast 1

    Pinto Colvig

    Goofy (voice) (uncredited)

  9. Cast 1

    James MacDonald

    Lumpjaw (voice) (uncredited)

After World War 2 the Disney studio had difficulty getting back to where they were prior to the war's disruptive affects on the studio's operations. Having said that, they produced what they called "Package Features", which contained multiple stories rather than just one feature, as was the case with "Snow White", "Pinocchio", and "Fantasia", prior to the war. This one, "Fun And Fancy Free", uses 2 story lines that were in development prior to the American declaration of War, in December of 1941. "Mickey & the Beanstalk", pictured on the cover, plus "Bongo" the 'Circus Bear'. 2 films that we...