Cloakroom
- Studio
- Kayro Productions
- Animation studio
- Creston Studios
- Distributor
- Columbia Pictures Television
Synopsis
The Colonel, Maggie Bell and Sister Sue receives a $10,000 check from the lawyer of their kin, who died six months earlier. The Colonel suggests that he spend the money on a company for investment. Maggie Bell and Sister Sue are reluctant, but they agreed to let him do it only if it's a good company.
The Colonel and Calvin uses the money to buy a cloakroom at the "Crystal Slippers Night Club," and the Colonel accidentally gives a $25,000 fur coat to the sexy wolf, who really is a crook. When the real owner of the coat tells them to find it or it'll be reported to the police, they ask the Judge for help.
The Judge suggests that they report it to the police, with a little lie.
Calvin tells his sweetheart Gladys that the police found the coat at some pawnshop, and that the crook still hasn't been found.
Meanwhile, Maggie and Sue, thinking that the Colonel is not responsible enough, take over the cloakroom. There, with a baseball bat, they knock over the coat owner, who they thought was a crook trying to steal one of the coats. However, they make a run for it when the Colonel barges in and reveals that the person's actually an owner of the nightclub.
The Colonel and Calvin uses the money to buy a cloakroom at the "Crystal Slippers Night Club," and the Colonel accidentally gives a $25,000 fur coat to the sexy wolf, who really is a crook. When the real owner of the coat tells them to find it or it'll be reported to the police, they ask the Judge for help.
The Judge suggests that they report it to the police, with a little lie.
Calvin tells his sweetheart Gladys that the police found the coat at some pawnshop, and that the crook still hasn't been found.
Meanwhile, Maggie and Sue, thinking that the Colonel is not responsible enough, take over the cloakroom. There, with a baseball bat, they knock over the coat owner, who they thought was a crook trying to steal one of the coats. However, they make a run for it when the Colonel barges in and reveals that the person's actually an owner of the nightclub.
Characters
Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, Calvin Burnside, Maggie Belle Klaxon, Susan Culpepper, Judge Oliver Wendell Clutch, Rich Texan, Man, Desk Sergeant, Nightclub Owner, Myrtle, Thief
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Charles McKimson, John Walker
Producing
- Producer
- Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
- Animation Producers
- Bob Ganon, Sam Nicholson, Gerald Ray
Writing
- Writer
- Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
Voices
- Voice
- Freeman F. Gosden (Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon), Charles J. Correll (Calvin Burnside), Virginia Gregg (Maggie Belle Klaxon), Beatrice Kay (Susan Culpepper), Paul Frees (Judge Oliver Wendell Clutch, Rich Texan, Man, Desk Sergeant, Nightclub Owner), Gloria Blondell (Myrtle [uncredited]), June Foray (Thief [uncredited])
Music
- Music
- George Bruns
Animation
- Supervising Animators
- Tom McDonald, Fred Madison, John Sparey, Bob Bemiller, Ben Washam, Volus Jones, Jim Davis, Harvey Toombs, C. L. Hartman
- Animator
- Buf Partch, Arch Lean, Bob Maxfield, Barbara Williams, Earl Combs, Casey Onaitis, Phil Roman, Barney Posner, Morey Golub, Tom McDonald Jr, Frank Andrina
- Layout
- Ellie Bogardus, Bob Gore, Bill Kohn, Al Hubbard
Art Department
- Art Director
- Norm Gottfredson
- Backgrounds
- Dave Weldman
- Ink and Paint
- Martha Buckley
Editing
- Editor
- Norman Vizents, Chuck McCann
Casting
- Recording Director
- Cliff Howell
Production Management
- Production Coordinator
- Dave Hoffman
- Production Executive
- Al Amatuzio
Crew
- Visual Adaption
- Lee Mishkin, Ed Levitt, David Hill
Companies and other credits
- Animation Produced By: Creston Studios
Production notes
Calvin and the Colonel is a thinly-disguised version of Amos and Andy, with the black human characters changed to a fox and a bear to avoid offense. In fact, Freeman F. Gosden (The Colonel) and Charles J. Correll (Calvin) portrayed Amos and Andy on the radio, as well as in a pair of Van Beuren Studios theatrical cartoons in 1934.
