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Jun 1, 2022 · Here is what might very well be Jimmy MacDonald's Final Performance as Mickey Mouse, taken from the Grand Opening of Star Tours at Disneyland on January 7, 1...
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A classic song from Walt Disney's "Mickey Mouse and his Friends." Performed by The Mouseketeers and Jimmy MacDonald.
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- Both Shorts Were Slated to Be Feature-Length Films.
- The Projects Were Put on Hold So Disney Could Produce War Materials For The U.S.
- Fun and Fancy Free Helped Finance Cinderella.
- "Bongo” Is Based on A Story by Sinclair Lewis.
- ”Mickey and The Beanstalk” Originally Had A Different Title.
- There Were Several Deleted Scenes.
- It Was The Last Film in Which Walt Voiced Mickey.
- Other Familiar Faces Were Supposed to Have Cameos.
- One of The Songs Was Originally Written For Pinocchio.
- The Voice of The Giant Also Voiced Another Famous Disney character.
After WWII, Disney Studios was running low on funds. Walt assessed the array of half-completed movies he had in his lineup and decided to splice some of them into package films as a fairly quick way to get movies out that would generate some money for the studio. Fun and Fancy Free was the result of those mashups; 1946's Make Mine Music was another...
A partially completed script for “Bongo” was turned in on December 8, 1941—the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed. Predictably, everything changed quickly, and the movies were shelved for a while so that Disney employees could produce war-related films for the U.S. "Bongo," specifically, was delayed so that Disney could make a short for the Treasury...
Disney's scheme to get more money into the studio's pipeline worked. Because of the success of Fun and Fancy Free, the studio was able to scrape together enough money to make Cinderella—but there was a lot riding on that glass slipper. “Boys, if Cinderella doesn’t make it, we’re through!” Walt toldhis employees.
Despite the fact that it’s the lesser-known part of the story now, “Bongo” was a big deal at the time of its release because it was based on a short story by Sinclair Lewis. The author, known for his more serious fare such as the political novel It Can’t Happen Here, wrote the lighthearted piece “Little Bear Bongo” for CosmopolitanMagazine in 1930.
The working title for “Mickey and the Beanstalk” was “The Legend of Happy Valley.” Presumably, the title was changed to make it clear that Disney’s big star was part of the production.
When the feature-length films were chopped down so that both could fit into the span of a single movie, some of the original scenes had to go. That includeda scene where our trio of heroes accidentally awaken Willie the Giant’s toddler son, who thinks that Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are the perfect little toys. Additionally, the “Fi-Fie-Fo-Fum” song...
Disney himself was the first voice of Mickey, and he recorded the script for “Mickey and the Beanstalk” during the spring and summer of 1941. Eventually, his other duties with the company became so great that he couldn’t dedicatetime to regularly voice his most famous character. He asked his sound effects guy, Jimmy MacDonald, to take over the role...
The tricksters from Pinocchio, Honest John and Gideon Foulfellow, were going to be the con artists who traded Mickey the beans for his cow. Another version, which was even storyboarded, had Queen Minnie present Mickey with a gift of the magic beans.
“I’m a Happy Go Lucky Fellow,” the ditty Jiminy Cricket sings at the beginning of the movie, was a discarded song from Pinocchio.
Billy Gilbert, the voice of Willie the Giant, was a well-known comedian whose famous schtick was a comic sneeze—which is why he was cast in the role of Sneezy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In fact, it has been saidthat Gilbert got the part by simply walking into Disney's office and sneezing five times.
Sound effects artist Jimmy MacDonald would become the character's new voice actor, starting in 1948. Disney, however, did reprise the role for the introduction to the original 1955–59 run of The Mickey Mouse Club .
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John James "Jimmy" MacDonald (May 19, 1906 – February 1, 1991) was a British-born American animator, voice actor, musician, and the original head of the Disney sound effects department. He was also the voice of Mickey Mouse from 1948 to 1977.
