All the Characters Are.... On the Merrie-Go-Round: Guy Kibbee, George Raft (flipping coin), Charles Laughton (as Captain Bligh), Mae West, Jimmy Durante, Clark Gable, George Arliss (with monocle), and Wallace Beery (for a split second). On the Teeter-Totter: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Shirley Temple on the Swing. Fanny Brice galloping right to left. W.C. Fields selling Hot Dogs. Joe E. Brown pitches ( a nod to Alibi Ike 1935) The Three Marx Brothers (Chico, Groucho, and Harpo). The Three Stooges (Curly, Larry, and Moe). Herman Bing repeatedly hit with Pie. Stepin Fetchit playing baseball and eating watermelon. Edward Arnold ringing dinner bell (nod to Hawk's Come and Get It 1936) Eating Peas: John Barrymore (unsuccessfully), Hugh Herbert (with molasses), Edna May Oliver (on thread), Greta Garbo (pure suction), George Raft (once again flipping), Ned Sparks (with ketchup and mustard). Katherine Hepburn eats celery. Eddie Cantor and Clark Gable watch Martha Raye sing. Dancers: Irvin S. Cobb, Ned Sparks, Stepin Fetchit, W.C. Fields, Garbo, Edward G. Robinson, and Boris Karloff.
I'm thinking that in those earlier days, actors, performers, each had their own unique style or personality or character . . . their own "look." Today, not so much. They are interchangeable.
+Allan Stark I agree! "Talkies" were relatively new and so they had to bring in Broadway stage actors to fill the rolls. That is why stars of the day were so "big" and identifiable. Most of the silent stars were doomed! Indeed Pola Negri (Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec) had a Polish accent so thick as to be barely intelligible. Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" shows this hilariously well with Jean Hagen's Lina Lamont! Unfortunately, somebody invented "The Method " and acting and actors became quite small.
i wouldn't say that "the method" is entirely to blame for that. I will say that had strasberg's interpretation been given complete prominence over that of stella adler's or others, acting and actors would be far worse off in my opinion. but in general i think method acting has helped the craft more than hurt. if anything i think more people may have gotten away from it means to truly act, although that's just from the outside lookin' in, so i don't know. i could be totally wrong.
A lot of this is due to plastic surgery, airbrushing and other widespread practices that reduce and eliminate idiosyncratic appearance quirks. They're interchangeable because most of them went to the same handful of surgeons to get their nosejobs and botox fishlips.
same with Max Schreck who played Nosferatu. In real life he had a high pitched whisper voice and a lisp. That's why he was never recast after Nosferatu
incidently, Joe E. Brown was a professional baseball player. His moves are a reflection of his love of the sport and several baseball themed flicks he starred in about this era.
@@drafe007 You seem to have him confused with Bing Crosby. However, his son, Joe Jr., was the Pirates GM during their World Series championships of 1960 and 1971, the latter was when they assembled the first all black starting lineup. Joe Sr. had to have been belt buckling proud of his son, seeing he loved baseball more than anything else.
this is hilarious!! one of the best "hollywood steps out" toons I've ever seen. Super caricatures especially of Moe Larry and Curly (even got the woowoowoo right!)
04:35 reminds me of a rhyme I once read long ago: I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life, It makes the peas taste funny, But t keeps 'em on the knife . . . Anonymous.
I haven't seen this in about 55 + - years I use to watch these great actors and actresses in the old black and white TV . The one that was mixing all of the condiments on his peas may have been Buster Keaton but the thing is that Buster was never too far from his straw hat .
It wouldn't be possible to make a cartoon like this now. When every individual star had a distinct look and personality, it was much easier to caricature them. But now? What distinguishes Bradley Cooper from Ryan Reynolds? How could you draw Jennifer Aniston, Gwenyth Paltrow and Amy Adams and make then instantly recognizable? As someone else on this thread pointed out, they're all pretty interchangeable today.
it all seems so civilized, then Step'n Fetchit and the watermelon scene like a smack in the face, then back to the politeness... ... anyway - Who is that after George Raft? ("it all tastes the same")... The dancing moonrise is funny and cute.
Sorry, but a smack in the face doesn't describe the sadness and shame of that Step'n Fetchit watermelon scene. More like a double punch in the solar plexus combined with a sinking feeling in the gut. For all of the external artistry and "civilized" social behavior, that was racial atavism at its worst.
since i was born in 1995 these are new to me. but i still like them since these are the types of things i use to watch back then. that and the golden early 2000s era of cartoon network
John Barrymore, to be precise. He and my grandfather hung out at the Art Students League of NY in the 20s and 30s. Barrymore was a decent caricature artist.
@@jacobitewiseman3696 No she actually use to brag about eating nothing but fruits and veggies no one forced her she stayed dieting because she wanted to keep her slim figure.
Reminds me of a poem my father used to say, "I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. I know that they taste funny but it keeps them on my knife."
Some of these are really hard to determine, but the ones I picked out are Guy Kibbee, George Raft, Charles Laughton, Mae West, Jimmy Durante, Clark Gable, George Arliss, Wallace Beery, Laurel & Hardy, Shirley Temple, Fanny Brice, W.C Fields, Joe E. Brown, The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Herman Bing, Stepin Fetchit, Edward Arnold, John Barrymore, Hugh Herbert, Edna May Oliver, Greta Garbo, Ned Sparks, Katharine Hepburn, Eddie Cantor, Martha Raye, Edward G. Robinson and Boris Karloff. The one I can figure out is the umpire during the baseball game.
funkeekatt, nice job on the Merry-Go-Round. I guess that could be Sydney Greenstreet first -- better than any of my guesses but I didn't think Sydney was that bald or had prickly hair like Curly Howard. Second is definitely George Raft with the coin-flipping. Then definitely Laughton (as Captain Bligh), West, Durante, Gable, Arliss (with his trademark monocle) and Beery. Laurel and Hardy. I think the woman jumping around while Shirley Temple is singing is probably Fanny Brice. We know who's selling hot dogs...The pitcher is obviously Joe E. Brown then the Marx Brothers and the Stooges. The baseball umpire with the odd accent is Herman Bing. Is Edward Arnold the guy ringing the dinner bell? Step'n Fetchit can't be mistaken. Eating the peas are John Barrymore, Hugh Herbert, Edna May Oliver, Greta Garbo, and George Raft, then down the table Ned Sparks and Katherine Hepburn with her celery. Behind Martha Raye singing, that's Clark Gable again on the right, but who is on the left with the round glasses? Eddie Cantor, it appears. In the final dance scene who's the first guy dancing -- large guy with big lips? He's the only one I really don't know. (Update: I think the large man is Eugene Pallette.) Ned Sparks again, Step'n Fetchit again, W. C. Fields again, Garbo again with the huge feet, Edward G. Robinson, and Boris Karloff.
4:32-4:45 reminds me of the following verse: I eat my peas with honey I’ve done it all my life It makes the peas taste funny But it keeps them on my knife
Aside from Boris Karloff, Katharine Hepburn and Shirley Temple, the only actors I recognised here were comedians, including Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges. I guess comedy has a longer shelf life than serious fare!
I always find it remarkable that cartoons with this theme of multiple movie stars show caricatures of actors and actresses from all the studios, not just the one that produced the cartoon. Normally no studio would promote a competing one’s product. Yet here are stars from MGM, 20th Century Fox, Watner Bros., and Columbia itself.
I grew up in the 50s. Our black and white TV cartoons were these WW II movie theater cartoons from, mostly, Warner Brothers. We had no clue who these people were in these “caricature” cartoons. We only knew Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky and the gang. When I was in high school and college I watched old movies on TV and I knew who all these people were. I’d learned enough history that I understood the references to the War. I’d watch the old cartoons just to see, and appreciate, these stars. I can imagine how movie goers in the 40s laughed at them. I’m glad they could have a few moments of laughs in those years.
Love to see them try to put this on today ... law suit heaven . Just don't make cartoons like they used to . Also , I remember some of these from growing up lat 50s and 60s I saw some of these before they were reruns. Getting old but these toons aren't . Thanks for memories of when tv was great !
This was released in 1937, a full six years before Columbia finally decided to dip its toe in Technicolor with its own live action film, "The Desperadoes," a good Western. In '44, the studio released "Cover Girl," one of the biggest hits of the 1940s. After that, Columbia was never reluctant to spare the expense with only black and white films.
This is simpler times were they do make fun of celebrities in cartoons but now you can't do any cartoon without getting sued or offended it's nice to see this kind of cartoons portrayed actors as happy go lucky people
Holy moly! I'm old and had never known that Columbia had their own cartoon short subjects. This is the very first time I hear of Color Rhapsodies. I will say, the animation is quite crude and sub-par compared to WB's Merrie Melodies-Looney Tunes series both produced in 1937. Quite interesting one, it really reminds me of Hollywood steps out but this was 4 years earlier. And it has almost all the same contemporary celebrities of the time. Even the same gag of Greta Garbo having huge feet. Come on! They were a size US/W8. Was that considered that huge back then? But still, quite interesting indeed!
macsnafu Here's some names: Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Fanny Brice, Shirley Temple, Step'n Fetchin, The Marx Brothers, and Mae West.
Yet Walt Disney successfully reinvented Oswald Rabbit as Mickey Mouse just as Jay Ward reinvented Crusader Rabbit and Rags the Tiger as Rocky and Bullwinkle! ☺ ☺
Though Walt never technically owned Oswald. That was Mintz (at the time). Yes it was unfair what he did to Walt but, legally Mintz could take the "creator" away from the character he created if you don't do things their way. Which was why Disney eventually lost Oswald. He (Mintz) wanted a 20% cut in the budget and most of the staff went with Mintz. Walt refused to sign, and lost Oswald.
Stephen Holloway you are correct. You saved me from writing this info. The man paid the money, it was his property. But a Disney combined Oswald with his mice characters and made Mickey!
Fantastic, I could recognize the Marx brothers, Greta Garbo, Edgar G Robinson, the Wizard of Oz, and the rest of them just beats me. Fantastic anyway 😊
Thanks been looking for this cartoon for a long time. Just a question could you upload hollywood sweepstakes (1939) that's another color rhapsody I would like to see as well.
The man, who produced this cartoon (Charles Mintz) betrayal would never cease to haunt Walt Disney. Charles Mintz hired away all of Disney’s animators except for UB Iwerks, who refused to leave The Disney Company, after Walt Disney lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
I think it is so funny that many people would think that this cartoon is racist but many people don't know that Stepin Fetchit (the actor) was actually the first black actor to earn a million dollars and the first black actor to have credit in a film, I know that maybe his movements are outdated but you have also to understand the time and history, after all, things have change a lot since then but we cannot change the past
If you aren't and old film buff you wouldn't have any idea who half these actors and actresses were. But if you are a baby boomer like me and lived during the Golden Age of TV you were exposed to them.
I saw a lot of these types of shorts on the Disney Channel as a kid in the 80s. Of course I didn't know who the stars were, but at least it helped plant the seed for later. :)
Boomer here . Seen some of these before they were reruns . Getting old , but the toons aren't. Don't make toons like they used to . I'd love to see Yosemite Sam vs spongebob lol . Love these Hollywood toons thanks !
Joe E. Brown is the pitcher, Fanny Brice was the skinny girl in the beginning. John Barrymore tries to eat peas, Ned Sparks, looks like Eddie Cantor watching Martha Raye sing, I don't know the name of the black character but I have seen him in comedies.
Mantan Moreland (also stereotyped) appeared in some Charlie Chan movies. He was an amazing actor given the material he had to work with. IMDB states Fetchit was controversial at the time and he still offends many people to this day. He was considered by some a superstar in the 1930s, and he became very wealthy playing his standard character. Moreland played the stereotypical jittery, scared character in many films. Given better material, he could have been a major star. He really had great comic timing.
+Suvi L don't forget the good old days back when there was hardly any people of color and the few that were there had to vhange there name and play demeaning roles just to get a foot in the door.the good old days back when to describe a native American you wound have to say injun or indian whivh would make you twice as wrong.
@Duane Mercer or its based on a comical actor that's personally seems dumb witted. Even if this is a stereotype of demographics, the short is making fun of other celebrities as well, as it's a comedy. I know a little bit of the actor with the watermelon but I'm assuming that he's actually did number of comical shorts.
By the 1960s cartoons were becoming more animated and drawn in more futuristic ways...when Steamboat Willie was done in 1928, Disney did each movement by cells and then shot them on 16mm...the best film to date in my book is Fantasia 1940...
![A Hollywood Detour [Columbia/Screen Gems, 1942]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LkUjVfZN6_U/mqdefault.jpg)
All the Characters Are....
On the Merrie-Go-Round: Guy Kibbee, George Raft (flipping coin), Charles Laughton (as Captain Bligh), Mae West, Jimmy Durante, Clark Gable, George Arliss (with monocle), and Wallace Beery (for a split second).
On the Teeter-Totter: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
Shirley Temple on the Swing.
Fanny Brice galloping right to left.
W.C. Fields selling Hot Dogs.
Joe E. Brown pitches ( a nod to Alibi Ike 1935)
The Three Marx Brothers (Chico, Groucho, and Harpo).
The Three Stooges (Curly, Larry, and Moe).
Herman Bing repeatedly hit with Pie.
Stepin Fetchit playing baseball and eating watermelon.
Edward Arnold ringing dinner bell (nod to Hawk's Come and Get It 1936)
Eating Peas: John Barrymore (unsuccessfully), Hugh Herbert (with molasses), Edna May Oliver (on thread), Greta Garbo (pure suction), George Raft (once again flipping), Ned Sparks (with ketchup and mustard).
Katherine Hepburn eats celery.
Eddie Cantor and Clark Gable watch Martha Raye sing.
Dancers: Irvin S. Cobb, Ned Sparks, Stepin Fetchit, W.C. Fields, Garbo, Edward G. Robinson, and Boris Karloff.
Wolfgang Gerhard -- perfect, but not Sig Ruman. Herman Bing.
Thank you for catching that!
I've corrected the list.
All the best!
I posted about Guy Kibbee and Irvin Cobb up above before I saw your list. It looks like you nailed them all.
Thank you!
Yep, you got 'em. I'd wondered about Messrs Bing and Cobb.
I absolutely love the artistry of these old cartoons, the orignals.
The Marx Brothers hitting and The Three Stooges catching? I LOVE IT!
Color Rhapsody - Hollywood Picnic (1937) Opening Title & Closing
A Columbia Cartoon Release On December 18, 1937
@@笹原煌太 2:14 The Three Stooges Slapping each other and Larry punches Curly and Curly going:Woo Woo Woo.😁😁😂😂
Two common themes in 1930s cartoons: caricatures of movie stars, and the world going mad for swing music. This one has ‘em both.
I'm thinking that in those earlier days, actors, performers, each had their own unique style or personality or character . . . their own "look." Today, not so much. They are interchangeable.
+Allan Stark I agree! "Talkies" were relatively new and so they had to bring in Broadway stage actors to fill the rolls. That is why stars of the day were so "big" and identifiable. Most of the silent stars were doomed! Indeed Pola Negri (Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec) had a Polish accent so thick as to be barely intelligible. Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" shows this hilariously well with Jean Hagen's Lina Lamont! Unfortunately, somebody invented "The Method " and acting and actors became quite small.
i wouldn't say that "the method" is entirely to blame for that. I will say that had strasberg's interpretation been given complete prominence over that of stella adler's or others, acting and actors would be far worse off in my opinion. but in general i think method acting has helped the craft more than hurt. if anything i think more people may have gotten away from it means to truly act, although that's just from the outside lookin' in, so i don't know. i could be totally wrong.
A lot of this is due to plastic surgery, airbrushing and other widespread practices that reduce and eliminate idiosyncratic appearance quirks. They're interchangeable because most of them went to the same handful of surgeons to get their nosejobs and botox fishlips.
I find that's more true of actresses than of actors, and least true of comedians. All the Hollywood actresses look alike, but there's only one Fluffy!
same with Max Schreck who played Nosferatu. In real life he had a high pitched whisper voice and a lisp. That's why he was never recast after Nosferatu
I always wanted to see The 3 Stooges, Laurel and Hardy and The Marx Brothers in something together, and now I have.
they died but it's okay. BUT TYEY DIED BECAUSE OF A OLD AGE ABD PLUS THE STOOGES WHERE BORN WAAAAAY BEFORE MY GRANDMA
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add chaplin, arbuckle and keaton and you have a wild party!
I'm surprised Rita Haworth was never involed isnr she Mexican
The Stooges (along with Ted Healy) and Laurel & Hardy DID appear together in Hollywood Party (1934).
I'm continually amazed at the volumes and excellence of historical archives, all available at our fingertips! Thanks uploader!
preferred loony tunes - Hollywood steps out
Definitely the Disney version was better, the gags were better and the caricatures were more believable.
I preferred the Warners one the best, but they all borrowed from the Mintz cartoon.
Good one also with the conga beat and gable chasing the blond only to find out it's groucho . Don't make toons like that any more . One of the best !
Just thinking that.
I ADORE ‘Hollywood Steps Out’! 💙💙💙
incidently, Joe E. Brown was a professional baseball player. His moves are a reflection of his love of the sport and several baseball themed flicks he starred in about this era.
he was part owner of the pittsburgh pirates in the 1950s.
@@drafe007 You seem to have him confused with Bing Crosby. However, his son, Joe Jr., was the Pirates GM during their World Series championships of 1960 and 1971, the latter was when they assembled the first all black starting lineup. Joe Sr. had to have been belt buckling proud of his son, seeing he loved baseball more than anything else.
Shirley Temple looks absolutely adorable :3
this is hilarious!! one of the best "hollywood steps out" toons I've ever seen. Super caricatures especially of Moe Larry and Curly (even got the woowoowoo right!)
04:35 reminds me of a rhyme I once read long ago:
I eat my peas with honey,
I've done it all my life,
It makes the peas taste funny,
But t keeps 'em on the knife . . .
Anonymous.
I think you answered my question of who that was after George Raft. I don't even know who Hugh Herbert is - must find out.
*****
thanks
you've reminded me to finally look up more about Mr. Herbert. My ejumacation about old movies is incomplete.
The Gods Right-Hand Man huh, interesting
Man-I literally just posted this same comment...hadn’t even seen yours ‘til just now! Great minds!
I haven't seen this in about 55 + - years
I use to watch these great actors and actresses in the old black and white TV .
The one that was mixing all of the condiments on his peas may have been Buster Keaton but the thing is that Buster was never too far from his straw hat .
I love how disinterested they always make Greta Garbo sound.
"Owwww-chh"
+Martin Meers "I vant so much to be alone..."
They also show her with enormous feet; for some reason the myth of huge feet got attached to her.
Her shoes were a size 7, in an age when most women's feet were smaller, say a 4 or 5.
eiricmacbean
I have size 10.5 feet. Size 7 is not a huge boat-like foot, lol
Step'n Fetchit,, no wonder I never seen this before
It wouldn't be possible to make a cartoon like this now. When every individual star had a distinct look and personality, it was much easier to caricature them. But now? What distinguishes Bradley Cooper from Ryan Reynolds? How could you draw Jennifer Aniston, Gwenyth Paltrow and Amy Adams and make then instantly recognizable? As someone else on this thread pointed out, they're all pretty interchangeable today.
Noone would care to make a cartoon of today's "stars". Noone has cared.
I love watching sketches/cartoons of Hollywood entertainers, Mae West is my fave. Thanks for the totally groovy laughs.
it all seems so civilized, then Step'n Fetchit and the watermelon scene like a smack in the face, then back to the politeness... ... anyway - Who is that after George Raft? ("it all tastes the same")... The dancing moonrise is funny and cute.
Susan DA, it's Ned Sparks.
character actor Ned Sparks
Sorry, but a smack in the face doesn't describe the sadness and shame of that Step'n Fetchit watermelon scene. More like a double punch in the solar plexus combined with a sinking feeling in the gut. For all of the external artistry and "civilized" social behavior, that was racial atavism at its worst.
I was thinking the same thing with the Step'n Fetchit parts ( took me totally by surprise).
They just cant help themselves. Rascism was religion back then, and still is
since i was born in 1995 these are new to me. but i still like them since these are the types of things i use to watch back then. that and the golden early 2000s era of cartoon network
Yeah I mean except for the blatantly racist black character
greta grabo swinging it. priceless.
7:15- Look, Boris Karloff!
That was fun. My favorite was Drew Barrymore's Grand Father trying to eat peas with a knife. Cheers ; )
The famous profile?
John Barrymore, to be precise. He and my grandfather hung out at the Art Students League of NY in the 20s and 30s. Barrymore was a decent caricature artist.
Tallulahs method of eating peas had to be an inside joke knowing her reputation....
love Katherine Hepburn eating celery.
I wonder if that's supposed to be a sexist symbolism of women watching wieght?
@@jacobitewiseman3696 No she actually use to brag about eating nothing but fruits and veggies no one forced her she stayed dieting because she wanted to keep her slim figure.
@@softiebbybunny2317 I was actually joking anyways.
@@jacobitewiseman3696 I agree with you, women watching their weight is pretty funny.
All of my favorite celebrities were having fun and it has my favorite stooge in it
Trivia } The baseball scene with the Marx Brothers & the Three Stooges is reused for the Columbia animated short "A Hollywood Detour"from 1942.
I think I saw this one on a VHS tape back around 1987 called "Banned Cartoons" or something like that.
Stepin fetchit, is the black actor.
Sweet
I love the old Hollywood cartoons thanks for posting
Reminds me of a poem my father used to say, "I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. I know that they taste funny but it keeps them on my knife."
Time to mention the outrageous Stepin Fetchit caricature. A pleasure to see the other faces.
Some of these are really hard to determine, but the ones I picked out are Guy Kibbee, George Raft, Charles Laughton, Mae West, Jimmy Durante, Clark Gable, George Arliss, Wallace Beery, Laurel & Hardy, Shirley Temple, Fanny Brice, W.C Fields, Joe E. Brown, The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Herman Bing, Stepin Fetchit, Edward Arnold, John Barrymore, Hugh Herbert, Edna May Oliver, Greta Garbo, Ned Sparks, Katharine Hepburn, Eddie Cantor, Martha Raye, Edward G. Robinson and Boris Karloff. The one I can figure out is the umpire during the baseball game.
I recognized Bill Bojangles - or I think it is him.
That's not Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, but rather Stepin Fetchit.
Thank you
funkeekatt, nice job on the Merry-Go-Round. I guess that could be Sydney Greenstreet first -- better than any of my guesses but I didn't think Sydney was that bald or had prickly hair like Curly Howard. Second is definitely George Raft with the coin-flipping. Then definitely Laughton (as Captain Bligh), West, Durante, Gable, Arliss (with his trademark monocle) and Beery. Laurel and Hardy.
I think the woman jumping around while Shirley Temple is singing is probably Fanny Brice. We know who's selling hot dogs...The pitcher is obviously Joe E. Brown then the Marx Brothers and the Stooges. The baseball umpire with the odd accent is Herman Bing. Is Edward Arnold the guy ringing the dinner bell? Step'n Fetchit can't be mistaken. Eating the peas are John Barrymore, Hugh Herbert, Edna May Oliver, Greta Garbo, and George Raft, then down the table Ned Sparks and Katherine Hepburn with her celery. Behind Martha Raye singing, that's Clark Gable again on the right, but who is on the left with the round glasses? Eddie Cantor, it appears.
In the final dance scene who's the first guy dancing -- large guy with big lips? He's the only one I really don't know. (Update: I think the large man is Eugene Pallette.) Ned Sparks again, Step'n Fetchit again, W. C. Fields again, Garbo again with the huge feet, Edward G. Robinson, and Boris Karloff.
okay but exactly was the black guy
This is true authentic animation. Back when it took real artists who were experienced at drawing and they literally drew it all by hand.
4:32-4:45 reminds me of the following verse:
I eat my peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on my knife
Aside from Boris Karloff, Katharine Hepburn and Shirley Temple, the only actors I recognised here were comedians, including Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges. I guess comedy has a longer shelf life than serious fare!
The one yelling "Come and Get it" for the picnic feed is Edward Arnold (star of the film of that name).
Another classic cartoon to check out is "Mother Goose Goes to Hollywood". The Katherine Hepburn parody in that one is hilarious.
I always find it remarkable that cartoons with this theme of multiple movie stars show caricatures of actors and actresses from all the studios, not just the one that produced the cartoon. Normally no studio would promote a competing one’s product. Yet here are stars from MGM, 20th Century Fox, Watner Bros., and Columbia itself.
There are two Stan Laurels dancing about at the end!
wc fields is funny and 10 cents for a hotdog instead of 4-5 dollars today!
Shit in New England their 10 plus at places like junkyard dogs, or the orient point ferry
A sign of the times. At that time.
Holy shit, the women singing is fucken scary
This is art!❤️
I use my mashed potatoes to eat my peas on my knife, works great and use my biscuits to mop up my gravy.
Should I feel old seeing I know who most of these celebrities are?
The Song That Plays At The Very Beginning Is Called You Ought To Be In Pictures
I grew up in the 50s. Our black and white TV cartoons were these WW II movie theater cartoons from, mostly, Warner Brothers.
We had no clue who these people were in these “caricature” cartoons. We only knew Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky and the gang.
When I was in high school and college I watched old movies on TV and I knew who all these people were.
I’d learned enough history that I understood the references to the War.
I’d watch the old cartoons just to see, and appreciate, these stars.
I can imagine how movie goers in the 40s laughed at them.
I’m glad they could have a few moments of laughs in those years.
Cuando las estrellas eran talento de verdad.
Increíble el trabajo.
Oh back when you had to have some talent to be in the entertainment industry
1:18 I guess Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis will keep coming back, until they really get a hot dog!!!!!
Love to see them try to put this on today ... law suit heaven . Just don't make cartoons like they used to . Also , I remember some of these from growing up lat 50s and 60s I saw some of these before they were reruns. Getting old but these toons aren't . Thanks for memories of when tv was great !
This was released in 1937, a full six years before Columbia finally decided to dip its toe in Technicolor with its own live action film, "The Desperadoes," a good Western. In '44, the studio released "Cover Girl," one of the biggest hits of the 1940s. After that, Columbia was never reluctant to spare the expense with only black and white films.
Ahhhhhh brings back memories.
1:12 I caught one of those on Pokémon Saphire with a dusk ball
It's kinda fun to try and figure who they are
Some faces are familiar, some not. It'd be nice to have captions identifying each.
R C Nelson baseball pitcher is Joe E. Brown. Hot Dog sales is W.C. Fields.
You can see all the stars, some that you recognize...
Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Boris Karloff, Edward G Robinson, etc etc:)
Recognized most of them. Funny. I forgot the name of some of them. But, Curly with fuzz on his bald hair. loved it!
Bring back the oldie but goodies!
I was able to ID some of them without looking at the list.. Joe E Brown was the pitcher.
5:53 Dude on the right has one eye, Lol 😂
DatGoldenBear That's Clark Gable, you mean? That's the way how they set/animated him :)
The song at the end is a absolute banger
This is simpler times were they do make fun of celebrities in cartoons but now you can't do any cartoon without getting sued or offended it's nice to see this kind of cartoons portrayed actors as happy go lucky people
Holy moly! I'm old and had never known that Columbia had their own cartoon short subjects. This is the very first time I hear of Color Rhapsodies.
I will say, the animation is quite crude and sub-par compared to WB's Merrie Melodies-Looney Tunes series both produced in 1937.
Quite interesting one, it really reminds me of Hollywood steps out but this was 4 years earlier. And it has almost all the same contemporary celebrities of the time. Even the same gag of Greta Garbo having huge feet. Come on! They were a size US/W8. Was that considered that huge back then? But still, quite interesting indeed!
Back then,Screen Gems was primarly a Short Movie company and wasn't yet a TV Mogul!
That was awesome!
This cartoon is now 80 years old. I can identify about half of the characters.
I recognized some of the characters, especially the comedians, but not several of the others.
macsnafu Here's some names: Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Fanny Brice, Shirley Temple, Step'n Fetchin, The Marx Brothers, and Mae West.
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i was watching color rhaspsody in hour acme on cartoon network latin america was a child of 1 year old
W. C. Fields my chickadee
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Anothr greeat one to watch is "Hollywood Steps Out".
LOVE IT!!!!
Very interesting, great animations 😊
7:35 Hollywood Picnic - end titles recreation
7:13 oh look, it's Derek Zoolander
Looks like a public domain copy, with only the red and green registers and not the blue. Great to see though!
I do not think the watermelon gag would go over in these times!
This was at one time a positive thing to be inmortatized in cartoon form.
I love Hollywood Steps Out more than this one, but it was cool to see
Oh, I Think You're Talking About Stepin Fetchit The Famous Beloved Black American Movie Star
His legacy is infamous and shameful in the African-American community
Beloved my ass!
Hugh Herbert eating his peas with honey
Today's entertainers have got nothing on the ones from the 1930's an 40's.
Maybe Cartoons should be Poking Fun at the Big Ass Kardashian Sisters.
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Produced by Charles Mintz, who will always be remembered as the guy who screwed Walt Disney out of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928.
Now it's "Charles who?" while Disney's ghost owns the world.
Yet Walt Disney successfully reinvented Oswald Rabbit as Mickey Mouse just as Jay Ward reinvented Crusader Rabbit and Rags the Tiger as Rocky and Bullwinkle! ☺ ☺
Though Walt never technically owned Oswald. That was Mintz (at the time). Yes it was unfair what he did to Walt but, legally Mintz could take the "creator" away from the character he created if you don't do things their way. Which was why Disney eventually lost Oswald. He (Mintz) wanted a 20% cut in the budget and most of the staff went with Mintz. Walt refused to sign, and lost Oswald.
Stephen Holloway you are correct. You saved me from writing this info. The man paid the money, it was his property. But a Disney combined Oswald with his mice characters and made Mickey!
yeah, but they got him back. ;) :D
Great !
Fantastic, I could recognize the Marx brothers, Greta Garbo, Edgar G Robinson, the Wizard of Oz, and the rest of them just beats me. Fantastic anyway 😊
Obviously, this was a worn 16 mm print copy, but the color was still a bit intact. I thought the dance, The Truckin came out in 1938.
Very strange old cartoon ... quite kinda surreal
2:16 Strike?? That was beyond a ball!
Thanks been looking for this cartoon for a long time. Just a question could you upload hollywood sweepstakes (1939) that's another color rhapsody I would like to see as well.
+Neo Spiked Hollywood Pic-nic (1937), Mother Goose in Swingtime (1939) and A Hollywood Detour (1942)
The man, who produced this cartoon (Charles Mintz) betrayal would never cease to haunt Walt Disney. Charles Mintz hired away all of Disney’s animators except for UB Iwerks, who refused to leave The Disney Company, after Walt Disney lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
I think it is so funny that many people would think that this cartoon is racist but many people don't know that Stepin Fetchit (the actor) was actually the first black actor to earn a million dollars and the first black actor to have credit in a film, I know that maybe his movements are outdated but you have also to understand the time and history, after all, things have change a lot since then but we cannot change the past
If you aren't and old film buff you wouldn't have any idea who half these actors and actresses were. But if you are a baby boomer like me and lived during the Golden Age of TV you were exposed to them.
I saw a lot of these types of shorts on the Disney Channel as a kid in the 80s. Of course I didn't know who the stars were, but at least it helped plant the seed for later. :)
I'll just Google it. Besides I'd rather learn about
History than the history of Hollywood
Boomer here . Seen some of these before they were reruns . Getting old , but the toons aren't. Don't make toons like they used to . I'd love to see Yosemite Sam vs spongebob lol . Love these Hollywood toons thanks !
Now 4:02 Sounds Like a Federal Model 28H.
Made in 1937 and much better animated than today cartoons.
4:27 Here's an idea, guy. Maybe don't eat peas with a butterknife
I would have sworn that the one at 4:26 was Vincent Price. But in 1937 he was still at the beginning of his career.
Those black sausages and buns are surprisingly tantalizing to look at, Squid ink sausage.
Step N Fetch is brutal to watch... we’ve come a loooong way
Joe E. Brown is the pitcher, Fanny Brice was the skinny girl in the beginning. John Barrymore tries to eat peas, Ned Sparks, looks like Eddie Cantor watching Martha Raye sing, I don't know the name of the black character but I have seen him in comedies.
Thanks for giving us the names.
Stepin Fetchit (billed as the world's laziest man). A far more stereotypical-character player than Mantan Moreland, who came a bit later.
OH, THAT is who that is? I've heard that name before!
Mantan Moreland (also stereotyped) appeared in some Charlie Chan movies. He was an amazing actor given the material he had to work with. IMDB states Fetchit was controversial at the time and he still offends many people to this day. He was considered by some a superstar in the 1930s, and he became very wealthy playing his standard character. Moreland played the stereotypical jittery, scared character in many films. Given better material, he could have been a major star. He really had great comic timing.
That was back in the good old days when movie stars knew their place.
among other people lol
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA thats hilarious, oh what you don't know.
Treemeadow The studios would have kept today's stars from shooting their mouths off.
+Suvi L don't forget the good old days back when there was hardly any people of color and the few that were there had to vhange there name and play demeaning roles just to get a foot in the door.the good old days back when to describe a native American you wound have to say injun or indian whivh would make you twice as wrong.
Lord Blackburn political correctness is a bitch.
My gosh that watermelon guy looks so down, I wonder why?
Classic to the tee satire.
Sam Judge It's the way how the animators/creators designed/makes it.
@Duane Mercer or its based on a comical actor that's personally seems dumb witted. Even if this is a stereotype of demographics, the short is making fun of other celebrities as well, as it's a comedy.
I know a little bit of the actor with the watermelon but I'm assuming that he's actually did number of comical shorts.
By the 1960s cartoons were becoming more animated and drawn in more futuristic ways...when Steamboat Willie was done in 1928, Disney did each movement by cells and then shot them on 16mm...the best film to date in my book is Fantasia 1940...