The Wise Little Hen (character)

The Wise Little Hen
Background information
Feature films	The Wise Little Hen Mickey's Polo Team
Voice	Florence Gill
Character information
Other names	Henrietta Cluck
Status	Active
Family information
Other relatives	Her chicks

The Wise Little Hen is an anthropomorphic hen from the 1934 animated short of the same name.

Background

Personality

The Wise Little Hen is a chick mother who is shown to have a wise personality - offering her children to plant corn. Despite being seen with a mostly happy expression, she is also shown to feel bad to those who refuse to accept her offer such as Peter Pig or Donald Duck who make an excuse about the problems they have. Despite being cooperative with the chicks, the Little Hen also shows to have a dislike to those who don't help out in growing the corn for her as well as those who lie to her as in the case when she realized that Peter and Donald feigned to her that they had a bellyache. Just as the Little Hen offered them to "help" them finish the corn for her, she realizes that neither Peter nor Donald helped at all and that they lied to her, causing them to receive castor oil instead, causing the Little Hen and the chicks to feast on the corn themselves.

Appearances

The Wise Little Hen

The Wise Little Hen is introduced at the beginning of the short holding a basket of corn. As the chicks become excited about the corn, the Little Hen offers them that she will give them corn if she helps plant the corn for her, so they decide to accept her offer. Later, she asks them for the help of Peter Pig and Donald Duck, who feign bellyache. Having managed with her chicks, she returns to see the pig and the duck help in the picking. They redo the blow of the disease. This time, the hen realizes that they are liars, when one of the planks of their clubhouse came down after they come in and seeing them shaking hands. She contacts them again during the tasting, that they agree to volunteer; however, the basket which she gives contains castor oil. She and her chicks have a feast to themselves.

Trivia

• The Wise Little Hen resembles Clara Cluck even having the same voice actress (the cartoon was released a couple of months before Clara's Debut in Orphan's Benefit (1934)).
• A promo for The Ink and Paint Club referred to her as Henrietta Cluck.

Gallery

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1929 The Skeleton Dance • El Terrible Toreador • Springtime • Hell's Bells • The Merry Dwarfs 1930 Summer • Autumn • Cannibal Capers • Frolicking Fish • Arctic Antics • Midnight in a Toy Shop • Night • Monkey Melodies • Winter • Playful Pan 1931 Birds of a Feather • Mother Goose Melodies • The China Plate • The Busy Beavers • The Cat's Out • Egyptian Melodies • The Clock Store • The Spider and the Fly • The Fox Hunt (1931 short) • The Ugly Duckling (1931) 1932 The Bird Store • The Bears and Bees • Just Dogs • Flowers and Trees • King Neptune • Bugs in Love • Babes in the Woods • Santa's Workshop 1933 Birds in the Spring • Father Noah's Ark • Three Little Pigs • Old King Cole • Lullaby Land • The Pied Piper • The Night Before Christmas 1934 The China Shop • The Grasshopper and the Ants • Funny Little Bunnies • The Big Bad Wolf • The Wise Little Hen • The Flying Mouse • Peculiar Penguins • The Goddess of Spring 1935 The Tortoise and the Hare • The Golden Touch • The Robber Kitten • Water Babies • The Cookie Carnival • Who Killed Cock Robin? • Music Land • Three Orphan Kittens • Cock o' the Walk • Broken Toys 1936 Elmer Elephant • Three Little Wolves • Toby Tortoise Returns • Three Blind Mouseketeers • The Country Cousin • Mother Pluto • More Kittens 1937 Woodland Café • Little Hiawatha • The Old Mill 1938 The Moth and the Flame • Wynken, Blynken and Nod • Farmyard Symphony • Merbabies • Mother Goose Goes Hollywood 1939 The Practical Pig • The Ugly Duckling