Babes in Toyland (1961) |
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Other InformationAwardsBest Written American Musical Writers Guild of America, USA [1962] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Top Musical Laurel Awards [1962] (Won/Nominated: 3rd place) Top Musical Score Laurel Awards [1962] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Original Cast from Motion Picture or Television Grammy Awards [1962] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture - Musical Golden Globes [1962] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Academy Awards [1962] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Costume Design, Color Academy Awards [1962] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) TaglineFollow Your Heart to Joyland! A Dazzling World of Song, Dance and Laughter! It`s Bright! It`s Wonderful! A Musical Holiday of Fun for Everyone! The happiest, most delightful musical comedy of your lifetime! Related MoviesBabes in Toyland [Remake of] (Year of movie: 1934) DiscographySinglesWe Won`t Be Happy Till We Get It (Reprise #1) Tom and Mary March of the Toys Just A Toy Workshop Song Toyland Go To Sleep Forest of No Return Floretta I Can`t Do The Sum Never Mind, Bo-Peep Castle in Spain Slowly He Sank To The Bottom of the Sea Just A Whisper Away We Won`t Be Happy Till We Get It Mother Goose Village and Lemonade |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Toymaker: Do you Mary take this man to be your husband?
Mary Contrary: I do.
Toymaker: That`s funny. I`d take him to be your grandfather. Toymaker: Do you, Barnaby, take Mary to be your wedded wife?
Barnaby: I do.
Toymaker: Are you sure you don`t want to think this over? Toymaker: Do you Barnaby take Mary to be your wedded wife? To keep her in sickness, in adversity, in poverty, in tragedy, in disaster...
Barnaby: What are you doing?
Toymaker: Well, I was just trying to talk you out of it. Toymaker: We are gathered here today to witness this young lady making her first step toward unhappiness. She`s gonna marry you.
Barnaby: What? Floretta the Gypsy: [about Barnaby while beating and bending his hand] Now this is the palm of a cad. A sly reprobate and a mean one. Corrupt and malicious. Conniving and vicious! A scoundrel if ever I`ve seen one.
[honks Barnaby`s nose]
Floretta the Gypsy: He seeks a young maid for his wife while plotting her sweetheart`s abduction.
[beating Barnaby`s hand]
Floretta the Gypsy: The crime`s he`s involved in will one day be solved and result in his utter destruction! Mother Goose: Now, let`s see. There`s something borrowed, something blue...
[Barnaby enters]
Barnaby: Good day, friends.
Sylvester: And here`s something old and ugly too. Barnaby: Item 1:
Gonzorgo: Item 1:
Barnaby: Kidnap Tom.
Gonzorgo: [to Rodriego who is writing down the plan] Kidnap Tom.
[Rodriego makes a motion across his throat with a pencil]
Gonzorgo: No, just kidnap him.
Barnaby: Item Two:
Gonzorgo: Item Two:
Barnaby: Throw him in the sea.
Gonzorgo: [to Rodriego] Throw him in the sea.
[Rodriego again makes a motion to about killing Tom]
Gonzorgo: No, no. Just throw him in the sea!
Barnaby: Item Three.
Gonzorgo: Item Three.
Barnaby: Mary`s sheep. These sheep support her. Somehow, I must thwart her. She`s much too independent with them, therefore, she must be without them. Steal the sheep.
Gonzorgo: [to Rodriego] Steal the sheep.
[Rodriego makes a repeated stabbing motion with his pencil]
Barnaby: [grabs Rodriego around the neck using his cane] No *steal* them! Barnaby: [hits Gonzorgo and Rodriego`s open hands with his cane] Not now! Tomorrow, when the swelling goes down. Barnaby: Not yet, boys. The odds will be better when they`re sleeping. We`ll wait till nightfall. Come, let us lurk! Barnaby: I don`t mind a double-cross and I don`t mind a triple-cross, but see that you execute no quadruple-cross. For this, to me, is insincerity. Barnaby: You are gazing at a happy man.
Sylvester: If he`s happy, I`m a chicken!
Mother Goose: Shh. Toymaker: Oh, for heaven`s sakes! Such a dreadful temper! I`m glad I`m not marrying you! Well, I am marrying you, but I`m marrying you to her. Gonzorgo: Look, Roderigo, a gypsy camp. Gypsies, eh? I`ve heard it said that gypsies buy babies. I wonder if they`d be interested in purchasing this fine, strapping youth?
[Tom tries to wake but Roderigo hits on the head with a mallet, putting him back to sleep]
Gonzorgo: Roderigo, I have an idea. Why don`t we sell Tom to the gypsies and that way collect for him twice, understand?
[Roderigo shakes his head]
Gonzorgo: Listen, Barnaby is paying us to get rid of Tom, but if instead of throwing Tom into the sea, we sell him to the gypsies, we`ll be paid for him again. Once by Barnaby and once by the gypsies. Can`t you see that?
[Roderigo nods ecstatically]
Gonzorgo: Right! [first lines]
Sylvester: Hello, everybody. My name is Sylvester, Sylvester J. Goose. My friends call me Syl, or sometimes silly.
[chuckles]
Sylvester: At this time, it is with unmitigated pleasure...
Mother Goose: [behind curtain] Sylvester, talk faster.
Sylvester: "Talk faster"? You`re lucky to find a goose who can talk at all! As I was saying, it is my pleasure to present your hostess for this occasion, weighing one hundred and eighty nine pounds...
Mother Goose: Sylvester!
Sylvester: Hmph! I present the one and only Mother Goose.
[Mother Goose enters]
Mother Goose: Thank you, Sylvester.
[under her breath]
Mother Goose: Blabbermouth.
[out loud]
Mother Goose: I`m here to invite you to a celebration in our village. Tomorrow is the wedding of Tom and Mary.
Sylvester: Two of my closest friends.
Mother Goose: I know. So put on your best smile, set free your imagination, and come with us to Mother Goose Village. Sylvester?
Sylvester: Alright, boys, open the curtains! Toymaker: You know something? I think we should go to lunch! Gonzorgo: We don`t know how to tell you this, Miss Mary. No, we don`t know how to tell you this at all. We were 20 leagues at sea and it was calm as it could be, when out of the north, there came a sudden squall! He was standing at the wheel he was, Miss Mary, and across the deck, the might ocean roared, and the mizzen broke and fell and we heard the fellow yell as it bashed him down and swept him overboard!
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Gonzorgo: Slowly, slowly, he sank into the sea! Though we tried to save him, he sank into the sea!
Mary Contrary: But who, sir? Who sank?
Gonzorgo: It was Tom, ma`am. Tom sank.
Mary Contrary: Tom sank?
Mother Goose: Tom sank?
Sylvester: Who`s Tom Sank?
Barnaby: What preposterous rumor are you spreading, sailors? Go on your way, unless you have some evidence, some proof for what you say?
Gonzorgo: Oh, yes, sir!
Mary Contrary: What proof do you have?
Gonzorgo: We are bringing you his personal belongings, and in his hat, we found this soggy note. Though the salty ocean spray somehow washed the words away, I`ll see if I can`t decipher what he wrote. "Darling Mary," he begins, or is that "dearest"? Yes, that`s term he uses we agree. Now the boy goes on to tell how he hopes this finds you well. It`s too bad he slowly sank into the sea.
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Gonzorgo: Slowly, slowly, he sank into the sea! With no life preserver, he sank into the sea!
Mary Contrary: But this was to be our wedding day. Why would Tom be at sea?
Barnaby: Does this letter offer some explanation? I presume he`s written more?
Gonzorgo: Oh, yes, sir! "I am poor," the letter reads, "and can`t support you, and it`s best I sail away to set you free. Noble lady that you are, you`d be better off by far if you were to marry wealthy Barnaby." We advice you to forget him now, Miss Mary, though our condolences to you we will extend, but we`ll blame you not, my dear, if you care to shed a tear for the way he met his most untimely end.
[sung]
Gonzorgo: Slowly, slowly, he sank into the sea! To the very bottom, he sank into the sea!
[Rodrigo suddenly sinks in the puddle and then slowly comes back up. Gonzorgo tries to find the hole, but can`t]
Sylvester: How about that!
Mary Contrary: [near tears] Oh, my poor brave Tom, sacrificing his life for my welfare!
Mother Goose: Poor Mary. Come, children, in the house.
Sylvester: There`s something fishy about this!
Mother Goose: Hush, Sylvester!
Sylvester: Well, I wouldn`t trust either one of them, the fat one or the idiot! Barnaby: For lunch, I had roast goose!
Sylvester: That`s the way we lost mother. Mary Contrary: I`d never marry just for wealth alone.Trivia This was Annette Funicello`s favorite of all her films. This Walt Disney classic has two Original Mouseketeers appearing in the cast. Mouseketeer Annette Funicello and (uncredited) Mouseketeer Eileen Diamond. The Hal Roach original (Babes in Toyland (1934)) starred Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and had a costumed mouse that looked suspiciously like Mickey Mouse. This Disney remake featured two comedians obviously impersonating Laurel and Hardy. After production, the cast and crew presented director Jack Donohue with a jack-in-the-box featuring pictures from the film on the outside and his head popping out when the button was pressed. Film debut of Ann Jillian. To promote the movie, the wrap party was scripted and aired on "Disneyland" (1954), which had recently been revamped and renamed "Walt Disney`s Wonderful World of Color" on a new network, NBC, and filmed in color instead of black-and-white like the old series. The wrap-party episode was hosted by Annette Funicello and Walt Disney himself, who explained clips from the movie while introducing the cast. Also featured was a soft shoe dance by Ray Bolger and a bongo drums solo by Tommy Sands. Ann Jillian performed the song "A Flock of Sheep Named Henry" with Henry Calvin, and Ed Wynn was presented with his Mouscar statuette for 60 years in show business by Tommy Kirk. Many of the sets from this movie--including Mary`s garden and fountain, the shoe house, the pumpkin house and the trees from the forest--were on display at Disneyland in Anaheim from November of 1961 through 1962 as a walk-through attraction. This was the first live-action musical that Disney Studios produced. It was as heavily promoted as the studio`s other big films, but was a failure at the box office. It was one of the few Disney films never given a second run in the neighborhood theaters, or even re-released, as so many other Disney films were (it first appeared on television - in two one-hour segments telecast a week apart - only eight years after its original release. Eight years was usually the amount of time the Disney studios used to wait to re-release their films theatrically). Disney did not make another musical on this elaborate a scale until Mary Poppins (1964), which became its most successful film during Walt Disney`s lifetime. Ward Kimball was to direct the film originally but left after a falling out with Walt Disney. David Swift was slated to write and direct this film at one point, but he left the project because he couldn`t come up with a workable script. | ||
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