''Donald's Dream Voice'' is a 1948 American animated short film featuring

Donald Duck Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company. Donald is an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit, sailor shirt and cap with ...

, the film was directed by

Jack Hannah John Fredrick Hannah (January 5, 1913 – June 11, 1994) was an American animator, writer and director of animated shorts. He worked for Disney and Walter Lantz. Biography Hannah was born on January 5, 1913, in Nogales, Arizona. After attend ...

and produced by

Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney ( ; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Golden age of American animation, American animation industry, he introduced several develop ...

. In the short film, no one understands a word that salesman Donald says, so he takes voice pills to improve his speech.

Plot

Donald the

salesman Sales are activities related to selling or the number of goods sold in a given targeted time period. The delivery of a service for a cost is also considered a sale. A period during which goods are sold for a reduced price may also be referred ...

has a problem where he fails to sell brushes throughout the neighbourhood, because no one can understand what he says. At

Daisy Duck Daisy Duck is an American cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company. She is an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic white duck that has large eyelashes and ruffled tail feathers around her lowest region to suggest a skirt. She is often s ...

's house, Daisy reassures Donald and tells him she believes in him. Finally, he finds a solution to clear his voice: taking a voice pill, leading to a massive increase in his brush sales. The pill increases Donald's confidence too and makes him eager to ask Daisy to marry him. After he sells all the brushes, he loses the pills along the way, leaving him only one. Then he goes back to Daisy's house, just as his new voice reverts to his old voice. When he tries to take the pill, it falls to the ground and bounces away from him and he starts following it. Donald chases the pill through the streets and onto the hat of a particularly large and irritable sewer worker, and then it finally ends up in the mouth of a cow, which causes her to talk in a clear and polite male voice, with Donald taunting her for his last pill. The cow, however, can't understand Donald's voice, causing Donald to lose his temper.

Voice cast

Clarence Nash Clarence Charles "Ducky" Nash (December 7, 1904 – February 20, 1985) was an American voice actor and impressionist. He is best remembered as the original voice of the Disney cartoon character Donald Duck. He was born in the rural community of W ...

* Leslie Denison as Donald Duck's intelligible voice and Talking Cow * Ruth Clifford as

Bea Benaderet Beatrice Benaderet ( ; April 4, 1906 – October 13, 1968) was an American actress and comedienne. Born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, she began performing in Bay Area theatre and radio before embarking on a Hollywood career that s ...

as Unseen Lady Customer

Television

* ''Disneyland'', episode #1.4: "The Donald Duck Story" * ''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color'', episode #8.6: "Inside Donald Duck" * ''Good Morning, Mickey'', episode #32 * ''Donald Duck Presents'', episode #8 * ''Mickey's Mouse Tracks'', episode #49 * ''Donald's Quack Attack'', episode #91 * ''The Ink and Paint Club'', episode #1.40: "Crazy Over Daisy"

Home media

The short was released on December 11, 2007, on '' Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three: 1947-1950''. Additional releases include: * ''Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions - Daisy'' (VHS) * ''Walt Disney's Classic Cartoon Favorites: Best Pals - Donald and Daisy'' (DVD)

References

External links

* *
Donald's Dream Voice
' at The Internet Animation Database
''Donald's Dream Voice''
on BFI

on Filmaffinity

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