Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet (1946) Poster

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7/10
Amazingly cute...
planktonrules13 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This was one of a bunch of shorts that made up the full-length release "Make Mine Music". While most of the shorts in the film were pretty poor, there were some notable exceptions. While "Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet" is not the best, it is very sweet and enjoyable--particularly for older audiences. Kids, frankly, will probably be a bit bored and wonder what, exactly, a Fedora is!

The film is weird, as it's the tale of the love between two hats--Johnny and Alice. They were both from the same store--but they are separated and it looks as if they'll both end their days being broken-hearted. But, in a nice twist, you see them reunited in the finale. All this is set to music by the Andrews Sisters--and it's among their best songs. Well worth seeing.
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7/10
A Different Kind of Love Story
utgard141 October 2014
Originally part of the movie Make Mine Music, this cartoon was released later on its own as a theatrical short. It's a sweet love story, narrated through song by the Andrews Sisters. The story is about two hats in a shop window that fall in love but are separated when the female hat (Alice Bluebonnet) is sold. The male hat (Johnnie Fedora) is heartbroken. Eventually he is also sold and begins his search for his lost love from atop the head of his new owner. It's probably my favorite segment of Make Mine Music. I think it's an adorable, lovely cartoon with pretty animation. The angelic harmony of the Andrews Sisters is a huge plus. A must for fans of classic Disney and those who like a good love story.
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10/10
In the window of the department store
Filmmaker77711 September 1998
Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet are two hats that meet in the window of a department store and fall in love. They both get bought by different customers and spend the rest of their little hat lives trying to find each other. This cartoon is truly romantic and sweet. I have loved it since I was a little kid, and sometimes I still walk around singing the Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet song. This is one of my favorite cartoons.
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10/10
Beautiful and poignant, one of my personal favourite segments on "Make Mine Music"
TheLittleSongbird2 March 2010
Words cannot describe how beautiful this short was. Not only is the story nice and simple, but it is a poignant one too, Johnnie's search for Alice is a tearjerker. The animation is gorgeous with lovely colours, and the music was even better. The song is very likely to stay with you for a long time, I for one liked how simple it was. The Andrews Sisters sing beautifully as well, they sang on the short "Little Toot"(featured on "Melody Time") and their lovely voices blend very well together. Overall, if you come across "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet", I recommend you see it.

10/10 Bethany Cox
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10/10
Love In A Hatbox
Ron Oliver17 May 2003
A Walt Disney Cartoon.

JOHNNIE FEDORA AND ALICE BLUEBONNET fall in love while for sale in the window of a fancy shop. Quickly separated by different owners, Johnnie begins an almost impossible search for Alice throughout New York City.

This poignant little film, originally a segment of MAKE MINE MUSIC (1946), is full of charm & spunk. The Disney animators have achieved the seemingly impossible - making the viewers sincerely care about the romantic fate of a couple of hats. The Andrews Sisters make the perfect singing narrators.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.
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10/10
Johnny kept yearning. He kept on returning.
Horst_In_Translation13 September 2013
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This is one of my favorite short-films of all time. Animated or not animated. It's just such a beautiful little short story and everybody who thinks, Disney only reached heights in terms of comedy and animation, but not really in emotion, needs to watch this one. I just watched it the first time since the death of the last Andrew Sister at an ancient age of 94 in January this year and it never fails to bring tears to my eyes.

The song by the trio is so melodic and fits the story perfectly. I really can't understand how this short film is so little-known, but we, the very few who do, can't appreciate it enough. The future vision with Johnny and Alice living in their own hat-box with little baby-hat is so incredibly cute. I'm a grown man, but I'd never have thought I could build up such a strong emotional connection to a pair of animated hats.

Not too long ago, I watched the newest Pixar short about 2 umbrellas falling in love and the whole story reminded me a lot of Johnny and Alice. So if you've watched and liked this little gem from the 1940s, thanks for reading my review and I hope you'll soon find your very own Johnny Fedora or Alice Bluebonnet if you haven't already. Don't give up even if happiness hasn't been on your side for a while now. Don't give up hoping and don't give up dreaming, for true love will come smiling through.
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oh dear...
journey79426 December 2002
we used to watch this one in a collection of really old shorts when i was little...this one used to make me cry so bad! i mean yeah it was kinda cute...but it was soooo sad! i can't even hear that song...it's still stuck in my head to this day...i didn't even know what a fedora was...
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10/10
Johnny kept yearning. He kept on returning. Warning: Spoilers
The review I posted a while ago for the identical 1946 version. Back then, it was part of "Make Mine Music". Here it is a stand-alone work.

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This is one of my favorite short-films of all time. Animated or not animated. It's just such a beautiful little short story and everybody who thinks, Disney only reached heights in terms of comedy and animation, but not really in emotion, needs to watch this one. I just watched it the first time since the death of the last Andrew Sister at an ancient age of 94 in January this year and it never fails to bring tears to my eyes.

The song by the trio is so melodic and fits the story perfectly. I really can't understand how this short film is so little-known, but we, the very few who do, can't appreciate it enough. The future vision with Johnny and Alice living in their own hat-box with little baby-hat is so incredibly cute. I'm a grown man, but I'd never have thought I could build up such a strong emotional connection to a pair of animated hats.

Not too long ago, I watched the newest Pixar short about 2 umbrellas falling in love and the whole story reminded me a lot of Johnny and Alice. So if you've watched and liked this little gem from the 1940s, thanks for reading my review and I hope you'll soon find your very own Johnny Fedora or Alice Bluebonnet if you haven't already. Don't give up even if happiness hasn't been on your side for a while now. Don't give up hoping and don't give up dreaming, for true love will come smiling through.
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10/10
Johnnie and Alice. So adorable.
gkeith_122 February 2017
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Spoilers. Observations. Opinions.

Johnnie and Alice. I saw this in elementary school. I didn't see it on a black and white TV. I saw this in full color, probably in the school auditorium where we had a stage and saw patriotic documentaries, etc., on a large screen.

This show is just so adorable. I had not seen it in all of these years. It is cry-worthy, and in a good way.

I am giving it really a 20 out of 10, it is so sweet. I remembered the song all this time, and it is really heartwarming to see it again.

Johnnie and Alice just excellent. The part about the baby bonnets is so wonderful. This was in Johnnie's imagination about the future.

Funniest thing. A lot is over a child's head. Now I realize that the hats were never going to get married, yet Johnnie imagined that they were going to have twin boy and girl baby hats. Maybe there would have been a priest's hat performing the wedding ceremony.

Just think of all the bridesmaid hats coming down the aisle before Alice.

Ah, but this was not to be. Johnnie and Alice could co-mingle in the stable near the barn where the ice wagon was kept, without benefit of clergy. The baby hats were never to be. Perhaps there will be a sequel Johnnie and Alice II version made in some future parallel universe.

Johnnie the hat was adorable, and Alice the bonnet was just exquisite. Those were two lucky ice horses.

A 1946 film. The animation drawing reminds one of 1950 Disney Cinderella, with the long dress fashions of I would imagine 1900. Alice's patron has the tiniest waist, as she steps into the carriage to go home.

I liked the men's dressy outfit later on in the window of the department store.

I am very happy that I finally got to see this again. It is priceless, and the beautiful memory definitely is a tear-jerker.

20/10
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10/10
I remember they used this clip on DTV with Stevie Wonder singing "I Was Made to Love Her".
DisneyMarsupilami60013 February 2022
If you may recall, There was an in-between bumper on Disney Channel called DTV, And what that is it plays that fits the classic Disney cartoon. And for the Stevie Wonder singing his hit song, "I was made to love her." I loved Stevie Wonder. He is a great singer. I connect the song with this cartoon.
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