While the Looney Tunes unit at Warner Brothers made the best and most enjoyable shorts of the 1940s and 50s, during the 1930s they were in search of an identity and tried out many different forgettable characters. Bosco came and went as did Beans, the cat star of "Hollywood Capers". The biggest reason these characters didn't do very well was that they were very forgettable and lacked the edge characters like Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny had. When you see "Hollywood Capers", you'll see what I mean in regard to Beans.
The story starts off much like the brilliant "Autograph Hound" from Disney (starring Donald Duck). Both he and Beans are trying to sneak into a film studio to get some autographs. But unlike Donald, Beans does make it into the lot...but once he's there, he totally forgets why he came there in the first place. And, there's a gruesome battle with a robotic Frankenstein at the end that just seemed out of place. Overall, a big disappointment as you only see three stars of the day parodied (four if you count when Beans dresses like Oliver Hardy)...including Chaplin and W.C. Fields.
By the way, in some of the Beans cartoons (such as this one), Beans was voiced by Tommy Bond...the kid who played the bully in the Little Rascals shorts of the late 1930s. When it wasn't Bond, Billy Bletcher (who voiced Pete in Disney films and Barney Bear for MGM) was Beans' voice.
The story starts off much like the brilliant "Autograph Hound" from Disney (starring Donald Duck). Both he and Beans are trying to sneak into a film studio to get some autographs. But unlike Donald, Beans does make it into the lot...but once he's there, he totally forgets why he came there in the first place. And, there's a gruesome battle with a robotic Frankenstein at the end that just seemed out of place. Overall, a big disappointment as you only see three stars of the day parodied (four if you count when Beans dresses like Oliver Hardy)...including Chaplin and W.C. Fields.
By the way, in some of the Beans cartoons (such as this one), Beans was voiced by Tommy Bond...the kid who played the bully in the Little Rascals shorts of the late 1930s. When it wasn't Bond, Billy Bletcher (who voiced Pete in Disney films and Barney Bear for MGM) was Beans' voice.