Jitterbug Follies

1939
9m

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Count Screwloose and J.R. the Wonder Dog are promoting a $10,000 swing contest. They plan to skip town with the entry fees, but a menacing thug from the "Citizens for Fair Play" convinces th... Read allCount Screwloose and J.R. the Wonder Dog are promoting a $10,000 swing contest. They plan to skip town with the entry fees, but a menacing thug from the "Citizens for Fair Play" convinces them otherwise. The contestants: A singing hippo, "Mother Goose" who starts out as an old wo... Read allCount Screwloose and J.R. the Wonder Dog are promoting a $10,000 swing contest. They plan to skip town with the entry fees, but a menacing thug from the "Citizens for Fair Play" convinces them otherwise. The contestants: A singing hippo, "Mother Goose" who starts out as an old woman, then sheds her disguise to reveal a pretty girl, and a fan-dancing ostrich. Throughou... Read all

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Mel Blanc

Count Screwloose
(uncredited)
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Harry Lang

Announcer
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Pat McGeehan

Georgia Stark

Mother Goose
(uncredited)

Director
- Milt Gross
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Trivia
Tex Avery's influence can be seen via the rotoscoped shapely woman in the Mother Goose outfit, a clear antecedent of the "Red Hot Riding Hood" characters he would develop for MGM a few years later.

Quotes
Narrator: Come on you jitterbugs - get in and swing! Get in the big contest! Count Screwloose and J.R. The Wonder Dog present the $10,000 swing talent contest! Get in line, you 'gators!' Come on you rug-cutters! Get the $10,000 prize for the winner of this big contest!

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Featured in Dave Lee Down Under's Cartoon Evolution: Evolution of Tom and Jerry (1940-2020) (2019)

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Gavotte
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Music by François-Joseph Gossec

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9/10

Dancing fools

Milt Gross is one of the unjustly forgotten comic strip artists. He created Count Screwloose of Tooloose in 1929, and in the late thirties brought the character to MGM studios to build an animated series around him. Due to disagreements with producer Fred Quimby, the series only lasted for two films, but the two that were made are a stitch! In "Jitterbug Follies", the Count and his "Wonder Dog" rig a crooked dance contest under the threatening gaze of the Citizens Fair Play Committee, which comes across more like a gang of mobsters. Even process of elimination doesn't make it much easier to find a sympathetic figure in the bunch, but the film manages to hold your interest by being so doggoned funny. Add to that two of the strangest looking penguins even to be captured on celluloid.