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The Organ Grinder
The Organ Grinder
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The Organ Grinder

1933
8m
Animation
Music
Comedy

Status

Released

Release

1933

Runtime

8m

Storyline

A beloved Italian organ grinder plays his music and sings his song through an immigrant-filled ghetto neighborhood, where hard-scrabble kids and well-proportioned matrons get hep to the beat that flows from the organ grinder's calliope. There are lots of spoofs of life on the Lower East Side and lots of monkeyshines as the organ grinder's pet performs "42nd Street" and imitates some Hollywood greats. The monkey takes wing and gets behind the wheel of a car, driving all over the area and wrecking everything.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
8m
Apr 8, 1933
Languages
English
Director
Rudolf Ising
Rudolf Ising
Production
Harman-Ising Productions
Harman-Ising Productions
The Vitaphone Corporation
The Vitaphone Corporation
Leon Schlesinger Productions
Leon Schlesinger Productions
Production Countries
United States of America

Top Cast

4 Cast Members

Ken Darby

Singing Organ Grinder (voice) (uncredited)

Rudolf Ising

Rudolf Ising

Organ Grinder (voice) (uncredited)

Johnny Murray

Fat Woman (voice) (uncredited)

Shirley Reed

Boop-Oop-a-Doop Singing (voice) (uncredited)

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