Disney's 9th animated feature film, Fun and Fancy Free (two stories hosted by Jiminy Cricket) is released through RKO Pictures. The two segments include Bongo (the story of a circus bear cub who runs away) and Mickey and the Beanstalk (an adaptation of "Jack and the Beanstalk"). This marks the beginning of sound effects man Jim Macdonald as the voice of Mickey Mouse (although he & Walt share the job on Mickey and the Beanstalk). Walt has hand-picked Macdonald to follow in his footsteps. (Starting with this film, Macdonald will be Mickey's voice for the next 3 decades!) Fun and Fancy Free features the voices of Luana Pattern, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Billy Gilbert, and Dinah Shore and live-action segments with ventriloquist/radio star Edgar Bergen and his puppet characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
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