At Christmastime, Mickey Mouse, Minnie and Pluto are beset by an enormous litter of bratty orphan cats.At Christmastime, Mickey Mouse, Minnie and Pluto are beset by an enormous litter of bratty orphan cats.At Christmastime, Mickey Mouse, Minnie and Pluto are beset by an enormous litter of bratty orphan cats.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
George Magrill
- Parrot
- (voice)
Barbara Brewster
- Orphan Kittens
- (uncredited)
Gloria Brewster
- Orphan Kittens
- (uncredited)
Pinto Colvig
- Pluto
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Walt Disney
- Mickey Mouse
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Marcellite Garner
- Minnie Mouse
- (uncredited)
- …
Beatrice Hagen
- Orphan Kittens
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Burt Gillett(uncredited)
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Did you know
- Trivia"Mickey's Orphans" from 1931 is the second Disney Cartoon, and the first Mickey Mouse Cartoon, to have a Christmas theme. The first Disney Cartoon to have a Christmas theme is the 1927 Oswald The Lucky Rabbit Cartoon "Empty Socks".
- Alternate versionsA scene where the kittens shoot cannon balls at a window and break chinaware has been deleted.
- SoundtracksSilent Night
Written by Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr
Featured review
Entertaining and makes me feel Christmassy inside
Mickey's Orphans is one of the first, perhaps the first, Christmas-themed Mickey Mouse cartoon, and is a very good one. Of the Disney Christmas shorts, my favourites are Mickey's Good Deed, Donald's Snow Fight and Pluto's Christmas Tree. True, it does use the formula of little children/animals causing chaos that we've seen with Orphan's Benefit, Orphan's Picnic, Mickey's Revue and Mickey's Nightmare, but to me this is one of the better cases of Disney using this formula. The only real complaint actually is that Mickey and Minnie don't seem to show any anger or concern over the antics of the little kittens. I can understand why they don't want to make Mickey angry, in The Pointer for example he got mad at Pluto and I have heard of people who were turned off by that, but for me it just seemed rather unrealistic. If it were a character like Donald Duck though, a character who is easily frustrated, things would be different. However, the animation is great, the black and white is shaded beautifully and, apart from the kittens changing size occasionally, everything is detailed and clean. The standout animation were with the life-like snow effects and the Christmas tree, which still looked genuinely festive even without colour. The music is energetic as ever, yet puts you in the mood for the festive season and makes you all warm and cosy inside. The Silent Night sequence is incredibly heart-warming. Mickey's Orphans doesn't forget to be fun either. The gags see the kittens sawing up couches, knocking over vases and shooting down dishes, but the best one was the one with Mickey and Pluto pretending to be Santa and a reindeer, which is both hilarious and delightful. Mickey and Minnie are likable enough, though I do wish their actions were more realistic at times, Pluto is energetic and the kittens for all their naughty behaviour are very cute indeed. On the whole, very entertaining and heart-warming short. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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- Aug 24, 2012
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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