Donald's Happy Birthday
Donald's Happy Birthday is a 1949 Donald Duck cartoon featuring Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie.[1] In the short film, Huey, Dewey, and Louie would like to buy a box of cigars for Donald's birthday but Donald decides to keep the money.
| Donald's Happy Birthday | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Jack Hannah |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Written by | Nick George Bill Berg |
| Starring | Clarence Nash |
| Music by | Oliver Wallace |
| Animation by | Bob Carlson Volus Jones Bill Justice Jack Boyd |
| Layouts by | Yale Gracey |
| Backgrounds by | Ralph Hulett |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date | February 11, 1949 |
Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
On March 13, Huey, Dewey, and Louie decide to buy a box of cigars for their uncle Donald's birthday, but when they realize they do not have $2.98, they do the backyard lawn and charge Donald for the chores. He gives them the money, but immediately has them deposit it in a singing coin bank. After a couple of failed attempts to steal the bank, the trio manage to take the money and buy the box of cigars before returning to their treehouse.
Thinking the trio have taken up smoking, Donald sneaks into the tree house and makes them smoke all of the cigars themselves to teach them a lesson about smoking (which he does mercilessly).
Just as the cigar box is emptied, without even noticing that there were no more cigars, he discovers a birthday card from the trio and realizes, much to his shock, that the cigars were supposed be for him. Donald then shrinks while panicking in embarrassment and horror over wrongly accusing the boys and jumps into a hole in the treehouse floor.
Voice cast
- Clarence Nash as Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie
References
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
