Fun and Fancy Free
Also known as Fun & Fancy Free
1947 American animated musical fantasy package film
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"Fun and Fancy Free" is a 1947 American animated musical fantasy film made up of multiple shorter stories packaged together. The film represents Disney's creative efforts during the post-World War II period when the studio was recovering and experimenting with different storytelling formats.
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6.3Jiminy 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.
Released: 1947-09-2773 minDir: Jack KinneyAnimation, Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure
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Cast
- Edgar Bergen as Himself / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd
- Dinah Shore as Narrator (voice)
- Luana Patten as Herself
- Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- Anita Gordon as Singing Harp (voice)
- Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
Themes
- circus
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Fun and Fancy Free, formerly known as Fun & Fancy Free, is a 1947 American animated musical fantasy anthology film produced by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen and released on September 27, 1947, by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is a compilation of two stories: Bongo, narrated by Dinah Shore and loosely based on the short story "Little Bear Bongo" by Sinclair Lewis; and Mickey and the Beanstalk, narrated by Edgar Bergen and based on the "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale. Though the film is primarily animated, it also uses live-action segments starring Bergen to join its two stories.
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1940s children's animated films1940s children's fantasy films1940s color films1940s musical fantasy films1947 American animated films1947 children's films1947 English-language films1947 fantasy films1947 films1947 musical comedy films1947 romantic comedy filmsAlbum articles lacking alt text for covers