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Fun and Fancy Free

Fun and Fancy Free

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Fun and Fancy Free

1947

1h 13m

6.3(542 votes)

Animation

Family

Fantasy

Comedy

Adventure

Overview

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.

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Walt Disney Productions

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Edgar Bergen

Edgar Bergen

Himself / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd

Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore

Narrator (voice)

Luana Patten

Luana Patten

Herself

Walt Disney

Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

Anita Gordon

Singing Harp (voice)

Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards

Jiminy Cricket (voice)

Clarence Nash

Clarence Nash

Donald Duck / Cat (voice)

Pinto Colvig

Pinto Colvig

Goofy (voice) (uncredited)

James MacDonald

James MacDonald

Lumpjaw (voice) (uncredited)

Billy Gilbert

Billy Gilbert

Willie (voice)

Creative team

Directed by: Hamilton Luske
Jack Kinney
Written by: Homer Brightman
Harry Reeves
Produced by: Walt Disney

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