The Ugly Duckling (1939) on Netflix
A late hatchling honks instead of quacking, and the whole pond wants nothing to do with him.
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Plot summary
The fifth egg in the nest hatches late, and what comes out is not like the others. Where the ducklings quack, the odd one honks, and mother and father waste no time falling out about it.
Shunned by the family and rejected by the other birds, the little bird goes looking for anyone who will take him in, trying a nest of sparrows and even a wooden decoy, with no welcome in either.
Jack Cutting and Clyde Geronimi directed this nine minute retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen fable for Walt Disney Productions, with story credit to Vernon Stallings and Clarence Nash providing the duck sounds.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Ugly Duckling (1939)
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- The Ugly Duckling won the 1940 Oscar for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) and turned out to be the last entry in Disney's Silly Symphonies series, even though some releases billed it as a one-shot special.
