Mr. Bug Goes to Town
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Mr. Bug Goes to Town original one-sheet poster.
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| Directed by |
Dave Fleischer Animation directors Willard Bowsky Shamus Culhane H.C. Ellison Thomas Johnson Graham Place Stanley Quackenbush David Tendlar Myron Waldman |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer |
| Written by |
Dave Fleischer Dan Gordon Tedd Pierce Isadore Sparber Graham Place Bob Wickersham Bill Turner Carl Meyer Cal Howard |
| Starring |
Kenny Gardner Gwen Williams Jack Mercer Tedd Pierce Carl Meyer Stan Freed Pauline Loth Pinto Colvig (uncredited) Jean Rhys (uncredited) Mae Questel (uncredited) The Four Marshalls The Royal Guards |
| Music by |
Leigh Harline (score) Frank Loesser (words-songs) Hoagy Carmichael (music-songs) |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $713,511 |
| Box office | $241,000 |
Mr. Bug Goes to Town (also known as Hoppity Goes to Town and Bugville) is an animated feature produced by Fleischer Studios and released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on December 5, 1941.
The film was originally meant to be an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee, but the rights could not be attained, or, more rightly, Paramount was unwilling to purchase them from Samuel Goldwyn. Instead they fashioned a modern story loosely based on the book.
The film was produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer, with animation sequences directed by Willard Bowsky, Shamus Culhane, H.C. Ellison, Thomas Johnson, Graham Place, Stanley Quackenbush, David Tendlar, and Myron Waldman. It featured the songs: "We're the Couple in the Castle", "Katy Did, Katy Didn't", "I'll Dance at Your Wedding (Honey Dear)" by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser, and "Boy Oh Boy" by Sammy Timberg and Loesser.
Hoppity the Grasshopper, after a period spent away, returns to an American city (Manhattan, New York). He finds that all is not as he left it, and his insect friends (who live in the "Lowlands" just outside of the garden of a cute bungalow belonging to down-on-his-luck songwriter Dick Dickens and his wife Mary) are now under threat from the "human ones," who are trampling through the broken-down fence, using it as a shortcut.
Insect houses are being flattened and burned by cast away cigar butts. Old Mr Bumble and his beautiful daughter Honey (Hoppity's sweetheart) are in grave danger of losing their Honey Shop to this threat. To compound their problems, devious insect "property magnate" C. Bagley Beetle has romantic designs on Honey Bee himself, and, with the help of his henchmen Swat the Fly and Smack the Mosquito, Honey is tricked into marrying the Beetle for the good of the insect community.
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