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.
The film was originally intended to be an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee, but the rights could not be attained, or, more rightly, Paramount was unwilling to purchase them from Samuel Goldwyn. Instead they fashioned and crafted an original modern story loosely inspired on the book.
The film was produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer and Shamus Culhane, with animation sequences directed by Willard Bowsky, Culhane, H.C. Ellison, Thomas Johnson, Graham Place, Stan Quackenbush, David Tendlar, and Myron Waldman. It featured 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.
This would also be Paramount's last animated feature film until Charlotte's Web released in 1973.
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| Image | Character | USA | Jap(1960) | Bra | Jap(1961) | Jap(1979) | Jap(theatrical version) | Jap(DVD) | Bra(BelasArtes) | Spa(1986) | Ita(1975) | Hun(1994) | Ita(1995) | Hun(2018) |
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Hoppity | Stan Freed | Hideo Kinoshita | Renato Márcio | Chikako Isomura | Akira Kamiya | Junpei Asashina | André Sauer | RafaelAlonso Naranjo Jr. | Franco Agostini | Tamás Bolba | Flavio Arras | Kisfalusi Lehel | |
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Honey | Pauline Loth | Miki Yoshimoto | Cecília Lemes | Mariko Mukai | Kaoru Sugita | Yōko Asagami | Kanae Ikadai | Tatiana Lena | Ángela González | Liliana Sorrentino | Kisfalvi Krisztina | Dania Cericola | Czető Zsanett |
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Mr. Bumble | Jack Mercer | Kōsei Yagi | José Soares | Junpei Takiguchi | Yōsuke Sugiyama | Marco Farias | José Luis Baltanás | Roberto Villa | Szabó Ottó | Antonio Paiola | Kajtár Róbert | ||
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Mrs. Ladybug | Margie Hines | Mio Satake | Lola Cervantes | Wanda Tettoni | Pásztor Erzsi | Caterina Rochira | Halász Aranka | ||||||
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C. Bagley Beetle | Ted Pierce | Masao Imanishi | Hajime Hana | Masashi Amenomori | Kenta Sasa | José María Cordero | Roberto Bertea | Gesztesi Károly | Maurizio Scattorin | Dolmány Attila | |||
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Smack the Mosquito | Carl Meyer | Walter Maestosi | Kassai Károly | Riccardo Peroni | Kapácsy Miklós | ||||||||
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Swat the Fly | Jack Mercer | Eloísa Mateos | Solvejg D'Assunta | Szokol Péter | Giorgio Melazzi | Szabolcs Seszták | |||||||
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Buzz | Mae Questel | Valle Acebrón | Alida Cappellini | Bartucz Attila | Paolo Torrisi | Szokol Péter | |||||||
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Mr. Creeper | Pinto Colvig | Fernando Nogueras | Vittorio Congia | Rosta Sándor | Luca Semeraro | Rosta Sándor | |||||||
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Dick Dickens | Kenny Gardner | Víctor Agramunt | Gino La Monica | Koroknay Géza | Ivo De Palma | Szentirmai Zsolt | |||||||
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Mary Dickens | Gwen Williams | Delia Luna | Vanna Busoni | Götz Anna | Elisabetta Cesone | Orosz Helga | |||||||
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Title | Guinn"BigBoy" Williams | Kazuko Sakamoto | Marco Balzarotti |
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