Happy Hearts

A cartoon with bouncing, smiling hearts can’t be all bad, but there isn’t much good in The Queen of Hearts, a ComiColor short animated by Shamus Culhane and Al Eugster.

Any humour is semi-slapstick at best. Hearts and face cards come alive and enact the nursery rhyme about the Queen of Hearts. The hyper hearts make tarts but one accidentally pours soap powder into the mix. That results in all the characters blowing bubbles after being hit in the face with the tarts.



The hearts use clothes pins and bananas as weapons against the Jack of Hearts who stole the tarts (filling in for the Knave of the nursery rhyme).



This Ub Iwerks production was released in 1934. Art Turkisher supplied the score.