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The Organ Grinder

Apr 8, 1933 · 8m
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Animation
Music
Comedy
Family

PLOT

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.

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CAST

Ken Darby
Singing Organ Grinder (voice) (uncredited)
Rudolf Ising
Organ Grinder (voice) (uncredited)
Johnny Murray
Fat Woman (voice) (uncredited)
Shirley Reed
Boop-Oop-a-Doop Singing (voice) (uncredited)
Directed by Rudolf Ising

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Harman-Ising Productions, The Vitaphone Corporation, Leon Schlesinger Productions
Country
US

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