
Fun and Fancy Free(1947)
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.



Bobby Riha
Jack
Dick Beals
Jack (singing voice)

Gene Kelly
Jeremy Keen, the Peddler

Ted Cassidy
The Giant (voice)

Janet Waldo
Princess Serena (voice)

Marni Nixon
Princess Serena (singing voice)

Marian McKnight
Jack's Mother
Chris Allen
Mouse (voice)

Leo De Lyon
Woggle-Bird (voice)

Cliff Norton
Woggle-Bird (voice)
Jack and the Beanstalk is a fantasy, animation, adventure, family, tv movie film released in 1967 exploring themes of fairy tale, musical, single mother, peddler, beanstalk, trade. Directed by Gene Kelly, it stars Bobby Riha, Dick Beals, Gene Kelly. A delightful retelling of the classic fairytale by Hanna-Barbera, using live action and animation.
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