Croon Crazy - Cubby Bear (1933)

In "Croon Crazy" Cubby Bear is the host of a live radio show who finds all his guests cancelling at the last moment, leaving him to impersonate them. The guests include stars such as Al Jolson, Mae West and Paul Whiteman.

About Cubby Bear: in the early 1930s every cartoon studio was trying to mimic the success of Disney's Mickey Mouse by creating similar characters of their own. Cubby Bear was the Mickey Mouse clone created at the Van Beuren studio and appeared in 20 cartoons in 1933 and 1934.

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Film & Animation

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• cubby
• bear
• van
• beuren
• sharples
• croon
• whiteman
• jolson

[AssaulteedOne]

how did you get this video, from the original film or the DVD remaster?

[laughland]

@AssaulteedOne It is from a poor quality DVD. One of these days I need to replace it with a better copy!

[nedsparks]

Gosh, it sure sounds like "Red" McKenzie is singing on this sound track (opening song especially).

[laughland]

You are correct! Red was the singing voice for Cubby Bear.

[IBetYouWillFemales]

Those few seconds of Jolson were genius, whole cartoon was great actually-never seen/heard of it till now, Van Beuren seems one of the harder studios to find-thanks!

[wickedlittlethings]

The North Pole segment (4:24) with the dancing Eskimo girls and melting igloos reminds me of the "Turn On the Heat" dance number from the 1929 musical, Sunny Side Up.

[gnikcohs]

At 1:45 or so thought those were breasts at first, but looking again they are certainly buttocks, love the expression on the moon's face.

3:30 however is definitely a Dr. Sivana lookalike.

BTW Cubby was, I believe, called Cubby throughout his theatrical career. But when the cartoons were released on 8 and/or 16mm film for the home market his name was changed to Brownie and his girl friend had a name change from Cuddles to Honey. The best one I have seen so far is called Bubbles and Troubles

[TigerRocket]

@jmen4ever Not jugs, but a rear end. The moon gets mooned!

[centrosphere]

Blackface 1:53 is always funny.

[ALPHAG3LLIWM]

These are the real crtoons... todays cartoons are nothing compared with that

[GS336]

I LOVE Van Beuren cartoons. They're so underated compared to Fleischer and Disney, but they're equal in my mind

[Gafagear]

i believe it looks more like a..eh eheh, rear-end