| Mr. Bug Goes to Town | |
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| Directed by | Dave Fleischer Animation directors: Willard Bowsky James Culhane H.C. Ellison Thomas Johnson Graham Place Stan Quackenbush David Tendlar Myron Waldman |
| Screenplay by | Dan Gordon Tedd Pierce Isadore Sparber Graham Place Bob Wickersham William Turner Carl Meyer Cal Howard |
| Story by | Dave Fleischer Dan Gordon Tedd Pierce Isadore Sparber |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer |
| Starring | Kenny Gardner Gwen Williams Jack Mercer Tedd Pierce Carl Meyer Stan Freed Pauline Loth |
| Music by | Leigh Harline (score) Frank Loesser (lyrics) Hoagy Carmichael (songs) Sammy Timberg (songs) |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1 million |
| Box office | $241,000 |
Mr. Bug Goes to Town (also known as Hoppity Goes to Town and Bugville) is an American animated Technicolor feature film produced by Fleischer Studios, previewed by Paramount Pictures on December 5, 1941, and released in California and New York City in February 1942.[1][2] The film was originally intended to be an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee, but Paramount was unwilling to purchase the rights from Samuel Goldwyn, and instead developed an original modern story loosely inspired by the book.[3]
The film was produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer. It features the songs "We're the Couple in the Castle", "Katy Did, Katy Didn't", "I'll Dance at Your Wedding (Honey Dear)" by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser, and "Boy Oh Boy" by Sammy Timberg and Loesser. It was Paramount's last animated feature film until Charlotte's Web in 1973.
- ^ "'Mr. Bug Goes to Town' Opens at Loew's". The New York Times. 20 February 1942. Archived from the original on September 26, 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ The evening independent. St. Petersburg, Fla: Evening Independent. 1986. OCLC 02720408.
- ^ Pointer, Ray (2016). Max Fleischer: Pioneer of American Animation: American Animation Pioneer. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1476663678.