My Peoples

My Peoples (also known as Once in a Blue Moon, Elgin's Peoples, Angel and Her No Good Sister and A Few Good Ghosts) was a film developed in the late 1990s by Barry Cook, co-director of Mulan. Despite the fact that he even went as far as to hire voice actors, as well as musicans to score the film, it was scrapped in favor of Chicken Little (film) in the early 2000s.

Plot
Set in Appalachia, Texas  in the 1940s, My Peoples was to have told the story of two feuding families: the Harpers and the Mcgees, whose two children: Elgin and Rose fall in love. Elgin was to have dabbled in folk-art, creating dolls from various household objects which included the following.

Angel-A heaven-themed doll made from a flour scoop that Elgin created as a propsal gift for Rose.

Abe-An Abraham Lincoln doll made from a scrub-brush who had spoons for ears.

Cherokee-An Indian boy doll fashioned out of an old garden glove.

Miss Spinster-An old lady doll made from the wooden leg of Elgin's dear, departed aunt.

Good O'Boy-a hillbilly-type doll made from car parts.

Blues Man-A doll with the mannerisms of a Blues musican, constructed from the handle of a broken mandolin.

Crazy Ray-A convict-themed doll made from a tree stump that lived under Elgin's porch.

Angel's Dog-Angel's canine companion, made from a spool and clothespin

Cook also considered the possibility of an over-the-top Southern preacher named Preacher Man. However, the excecutives at Disney were worried that such a character might be considered offensive, so he was cut.

A spell cast by Rose's father, Old Man McGee in an attempt to make Elgin forget his daughter was to have accidentally brought the dolls to life, at which point angel declared that she did not want to help Rose and Elgin get together and proceeded to leave town. Some of the dolls went after her in an attempt to get her to come back while others did what they could to help the couple, which included keeping Herbert Hollingshead, the man Rose's father tried to set her up with away.

Voice Cast
Dolly Parton as Angel

Charles Durning as Old Man McGee

Mike Snider as Good O'Boy

Travis Tritt as Elgin Harper

Ashley Judd as Rose McGee

Lou Rawls as Blues Man

Lily Tomlin as Miss Spinster

Hal Halbrook as Abe

Jean Smart as the Mcgee's neighbour Arvilla Tugthistle.

Diedrich Bader AS Herbert Hollingshed

James Carville as Crazy Ray

Billy Conolly as Angel's Dog

Music
Bluegrass musican Ricky Skaggs was hired as music consultant and worked togther with Marty Stuart and Hank Williams III to compose the film's songs. Barry Cook also wanted fiddler Mark O'Connor to provide some music, but never got the chance to ask him.