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1937 American film

House Cleaning Blues

Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Starring	Mae Questel (Betty Boop) Everett Clark (Grampy) Jack Mercer (Roosters)
Music by	Sammy Timberg
Animation by	David Tendlar Eli Brucker
Color process	Black-and-white
Production company	Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	January 15, 1937 (1937-01-15)
Running time	7 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

House Cleaning Blues is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.

Synopsis

Betty wakes up in the morning after her birthday party. The house is a shamble, and Betty is not looking forward to cleaning up. She sings the title song while struggling with her chores. Grampy shows up to take Betty out for a drive, but Betty can't leave until everything is tidy.

Grampy literally puts on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top), and invents a host of labor-saving devices: a cuckoo clock powered dishwasher, a combination bicycle and floor scrubber, and a player piano that folds laundry. In no time at all, the dancing inventor has the house spic and span, just in time to take Betty for a spin in his automobile (which features a built-in soda fountain).

Notes

This is the first episode in which Betty doesn't have a separated layer of her hair shown.

References

Komorowski, Thad (15 September 2014). "Fleischer Promo Art #16: "Betty Slays 'Em!"". Cartoon Research.
^ Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999). McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
"House Cleaning Blues (1937)". YouTube: Screen Prisms. 1 June 2024.
Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

External links

House Cleaning Blues on Youtube.
House Cleaning Blues at IMDb

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