MGM short, 1937
Released January 23, 2008
Directed by Roy Rowland
Produced by Louis Lewyn
Live themed out-of-home entertainment event? Nay, SUPER live themed out-of-home entertainment event! Thirty five years before a passel of light bulbs wowed `em in Anaheim, Lee Tracy, that man among men set the standard for all that would follow!
Check it out:
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Donald, Minnie, and Mickey (Mouse and Rooney)? Check!
Slightly scary rubberhead walkarounds? Check!
Long-legged, probably underage cutie-pies in costumes revealing just enough to make you want to reconsider where your life went wrong that you don't spend enough of your life working with long-legged cutie pies in costumes that are just revealing enough? Oh, yeah! I mean . . . Check!
Gratuitous media giant marketing masquerading as entertainment? Check and double check! Chester Conklin pretending to be a robotic Ring Master? Lee Tracy, you outta the box-thinking maniac! You STILL got Disney beat there!
Lee Tracy, Ringmaster! The California Collegians (who?)! Marcus Show Girls! The Fanchonettes! The Gay Boys! Uh . . . wha'?)!
Not only, but also:
Gladys Ahern, Will Ahern, Baby LeRoy, Rex Bell, Leo Carrillo, Chester Conklin, Cliff Edwards, Alice Faye, William S. Hart, Chic Johnson, Boris Karloff, Hank Mann, Charles Murray, Ole Olsen, Mickey Rooney, Fred Stone, Ben Turpin, George Barbier, Bob Burns, Dixie Dunbar, James Gleason, Allan Jones, Pert Kelton, Jack La Rue, Billy Lee, Martha Raye, and The Ritz Brothers!
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