The Merry Old Soul
About The Merry Old Soul
A dentist clubs Oswald the Lucky Rabbit so he can pull a tooth. The radio says Old King Cole has the blues. In the dream, Oswald rounds up Hollywood caricatures, among them Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and Jimmy Durante, to cheer the king. Laurel and Hardy start a pie fight, and a jealous jester drags Oswald off to be hanged, with elephants on the rope. Oswald wakes in the dental chair.
Cast & crew
More about The Merry Old Soul
Walter Lantz directed this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short for his own studio. Universal Pictures released it on November 27, 1933.
Themes
Music
The Story Book Ball, by Billie Montgomery and George Perry, is the song Oswald and the guests sing to the king.
Preservation
A print is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The Internet Animation Database lists caricatures that also include Greta Garbo, Buster Keaton, Mae West, W. C. Fields, Harold Lloyd, Paul Whiteman, and Will Rogers.
- During the castle sequence the characters sing The Story Book Ball, by Billie Montgomery and George Perry.
- It is an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from the Lantz series, not a Disney Oswald.
Scenes
- Laurel and Hardy open the pie fight, and the king joins in.
- The jester puts a noose on Oswald, with three elephants hauling the other end.
- Oswald comes to and finds he is still in the dentist's chair.
Also available
- Internet Archive (OswaldTheLuckyRabbitInAMerryOldSoul)
