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Donald's Happy Birthday
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Wikipedia article
'Donald's Happy Birthday' is a 1949 Donald Duck cartoon featuring Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. In the short film, Huey, Dewey, and Louie would like to buy a box of cigars for Donald's birthday but Donald decides to keep the money.
Plot
On March 13, Huey, Dewey, and Louie decide to buy a box of cigars for their uncle Donald's birthday, but when they realize they do not have $2.98 ($34.18 in current time), they do chores for Donald's backyard lawn and charge Donald for the chores. He gives them the money, but immediately has them deposit it in a singing coin bank. After a couple of failed attempts to steal the bank from Donald, the triplets manage to take the money and buy the box of cigars before returning to their tree house.
However, Donald spotted the trio purchasing the cigar box from the store, causing him to mistakenly believe that the trio has taken up smoking and conned him. A furious Donald decides to punish the trio by sneaking into the tree house and making them smoke all of the cigars themselves to teach them a lesson about smoking, and the triplets end up suffering from smoke inhalation. Just as the cigar box is emptied, Donald discovers a birthday card written by the trio inside the box, making him realize that the triplets were actually going to give the cigars to him as a birthday present. Horrified of what he has done to the triplets, Donald shrinks out of shame and remorse and jumps into a hole in the tree house floor.
Voice cast
* Clarence Nash as Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie
Home media
The short was released on December 11, 2007, on 'Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three: 1947-1950'.
References
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