6/10
Gee, I'd Give a Nickel
22 September 2013
The Fleischer Screen Song series rarely descended below very good, but this one just scrapes over the goal. It's a standard format, with a comic beginning, a performance of the song and another comic episode, ending in a fight. Although the voice actors are uncredited, the female cat in the beginning is Mae Questal; the main performance of the song sounds like Rudy Vallee, but I wouldn't take an oath to that belief.

A cartoon mouse appears in the opening sequence; a cat that suggests Paramount star Sylvia Sidney with a Russian accent -- is mourning a lost lover. A mouse tries to cheer her up.

Mice like this were fairly common at most cartoon studios in this period and they all looked a lot like Mickey. Some Terrytoons were overrun by them. The story is that Uncle Walt began to sue people for trademark infringement and it wouldn't until Chuck Jones came up with Sniffles that we saw another cartoon mouse.
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