Alice in the Big League
About Alice in the Big League
Alice, a live-action girl played by Lois Hardwick, umpires a baseball game drawn as cartoon animals. They turn on her over the calls.
Cast & crew
More about Alice in the Big League
Walt Disney directed it. It was released on August 22, 1927. It is the last of the Alice Comedies and Hardwick's last performance as Alice. She had played the part in ten shorts that year, after Virginia Davis, Margie Gay, and Dawn O'Day.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives, unlike six of Lois Hardwick's other Alice shorts.
Notes
- Lois Hardwick was the fourth actress to play Alice.
- Six of her ten Alice shorts are treated as lost. This one survives.
- The series stopped after it. Disney was short of money and moved on.
- Hardwick's next regular part was Mary Jane in the Buster Brown shorts.
Scenes
- Alice calls the cartoon game, and the animals object.
