A little mouse is incited by the little red devil inside him to defy his mother's instructions to go to bed. Instead he sneaks up to the kitchen to steal some cheese. The little white angel inside him urges him to go home to bed.
It's another of the goo-plotted cartoons that Harman & Ising -- and other cartoon makers of this period -- were fond of making: instructions to be a good little man and do what mama tells you. I've seen far too many of them to be impressed any more (although the images and Technicolor background work is, as always, striking), and I'm excessively tired of Bernice Hansen's cutesy-woodsy, mousie-wousie voice. Although she did many voices in her career, he specialized in doing kiddie voices, and these have annoyed me for more than sixty years, since I first noticed that all the baby mice in Looney Tunes sounded the same, and all were annoying.
Voicework was always a side job for her. She worked mostly as a seamstress. Her career as a voice actor in cartoons began with voicing Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for Lantz in 1932; she would continue doing so through 1938. The next year she added Leon Schlesinger to her roster of employers, voicing Cookie, the girlfriend in the 'Buddy' cartoons. By the time her movie career ended in 1941, she had done voices in more than a hundred cartoons. Whenever someone wanted a voice that sounded like a brain-damaged toddler, they called in Miss Hansen.
Not that it was her responsibility. Those were the roles she was offered, and I imagine the money was good. She died in 1981, 83 years of age.
It's another of the goo-plotted cartoons that Harman & Ising -- and other cartoon makers of this period -- were fond of making: instructions to be a good little man and do what mama tells you. I've seen far too many of them to be impressed any more (although the images and Technicolor background work is, as always, striking), and I'm excessively tired of Bernice Hansen's cutesy-woodsy, mousie-wousie voice. Although she did many voices in her career, he specialized in doing kiddie voices, and these have annoyed me for more than sixty years, since I first noticed that all the baby mice in Looney Tunes sounded the same, and all were annoying.
Voicework was always a side job for her. She worked mostly as a seamstress. Her career as a voice actor in cartoons began with voicing Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for Lantz in 1932; she would continue doing so through 1938. The next year she added Leon Schlesinger to her roster of employers, voicing Cookie, the girlfriend in the 'Buddy' cartoons. By the time her movie career ended in 1941, she had done voices in more than a hundred cartoons. Whenever someone wanted a voice that sounded like a brain-damaged toddler, they called in Miss Hansen.
Not that it was her responsibility. Those were the roles she was offered, and I imagine the money was good. She died in 1981, 83 years of age.