Kitty From Kansas City - Animated Film

Animated Film

Kitty from Kansas City
Screen Songs series
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer
Fleischer Studios
Voices by Little Ann Little (uncredited)
Rudy Vallée
Music by Rudy Vallée and his Connecticut Yankees
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) October 31, 1931
Color process B&W
Running time 7 mins
Language English

Kitty from Kansas City was the 47th part of the Screen Songs series. It includes an early (although very identical) version of Betty Boop. The title card music is a lyrical variation of the song "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile".

Kitty (Betty) was walking to a Kansas City train station, and she waited for her train to “Rudy Valley”, a place where her friend (Rudy) lives. As she waited, the train’s mail compartment sign snatches her. A mouse writes “Fe” behind mail, as a parody of the word “female”.

She reaches “Rudy Valley”, where the cartoon changes to a live-action performance of Vallée and his “Connecticut Yankees” singing and playing the song. Then, the scene goes back to the cartoon, where Kitty does some of the antics in the lyrics, the film ending with Kitty unpluggin a water stopping cork in a pond, with a parade of marine creature following Kitty.

The live-action performance (and the second cartoon sequence) have the pre-recorded soundtrack off, by about a second and a half.

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