House Cleaning Blues
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(Betty Boop)
Everett Clark (Grampy)[1][2]
Jack Mercer (Roosters)[3]
| House Cleaning Blues | |
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| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer |
| Starring | Mae Questel (Betty Boop) Everett Clark (Grampy)[1][2] Jack Mercer (Roosters)[3] |
| Music by | Sammy Timberg |
| Animation by | David Tendlar Eli Brucker |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
House Cleaning Blues is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Grampy.[4]
Betty wakes up in the morning after her birthday party. The house is a shamble, and Betty is not looking forward to cleaning up. She sings the title song while struggling with her chores. Grampy shows up to take Betty out for a drive, but Betty can't leave until everything is tidy.
Grampy literally puts on his thinking cap (a mortarboard with a lightbulb on top), and invents a host of labor-saving devices: a cuckoo clock powered dishwasher, a combination bicycle and floor scrubber, and a player piano that folds laundry. In no time at all, the dancing inventor has the house spic and span, just in time to take Betty for a spin in his automobile (which features a built-in soda fountain).