A CARTOON FOR GRACIE FIELDS
Gracie Fields goes to work for Walt Disney next year. Disney wants Gracie as singer and narrator of his musical fantasy "The Wind in the Willows." All right-reading people know this Kenneth Grahame classic of animal life — which has already been musicalTy' dramatised as "Toad of Toad-Hall." The screen voice of Mr. Toad Will be comedian Eric Blore; Colin Campbell will speak up ' f or Mole and Pat O'Malley will be Cyril the h'orse. But before "Wind in the' Willows" comes out, ' Disney fans are due for"a major shock. His "Song in the South," promised for release this spring ;is £ str&igh flesh-and- . blood musical ' d'fama.""""
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 August 1946, Page 6
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110A CARTOON FOR GRACIE FIELDS Chronicle (Levin), 24 August 1946, Page 6
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