Orphan’s Benefit

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Micky and friends put on a revue for the orphans. Donald recites nursery rhymes, but the orphans torment him. Horace, Goofy, and Clarabelle do a dance number. Donald tries again. Clara clucks a song while Mickey plays piano (with support from an unseen orchestra). Donald returns, and the orphans finally send a parade of bricks and eggs on balloons over him and use slingshots to drop them on his head.

★★★★☆ Curator’s rating Fan favourite

The short that made Donald Duck a star. He attempts to recite nursery rhymes to an audience of orphans who will not let him finish a line, and the resulting meltdown is the first full display of the temper that would define him. Disney thought enough of it to remake the whole thing in colour years later — one of very few shorts the studio produced twice.

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