Donald's Happy Birthday

Donald's Happy Birthday is a 1949 Donald Duck cartoon featuring Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie.[1] In the short film, Huey, Dewey, and Louie would like to buy a box of cigars for Donald's birthday but Donald decides to keep the money.

Donald's Happy Birthday
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJack Hannah
Produced byWalt Disney
Written byNick George
Bill Berg
StarringClarence Nash
Music byOliver Wallace
Animation byBob Carlson
Volus Jones
Bill Justice
Jack Boyd
Layouts byYale Gracey
Backgrounds byRalph Hulett
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
February 11, 1949
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

On March 13, Huey, Dewey, and Louie decide to buy a box of cigars for their uncle Donald's birthday, but when they realize they do not have $2.98, they do the backyard lawn and charge Donald for the chores. He gives them the money, but immediately has them deposit it in a singing coin bank. After a couple of failed attempts to steal the bank, the trio manage to take the money and buy the box of cigars before returning to their treehouse.

Thinking the trio have taken up smoking, Donald sneaks into the tree house and makes them smoke all of the cigars themselves to teach them a lesson about smoking (which he does mercilessly).

Just as the cigar box is emptied, without even noticing that there were no more cigars, he discovers a birthday card from the trio and realizes, much to his shock, that the cigars were supposed be for him. Donald then shrinks while panicking in embarrassment and horror over wrongly accusing the boys and jumps into a hole in the treehouse floor.

Voice cast

References
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. Hischak, Thomas S. (2011). Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0786462711.


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