Tags: Cartoon, Hollywood Cartoon.
The Ugly Duckling is an animated film from 1939 by Walt Disney based on the fairy tale The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen. The film was directed by Jack Cutting and released in theaters on April 7 1939. Music was composed by Albert Hay Malotte who was uncredited for the film. The animated short was first distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.An earlier Silly Symphony animated short based on this fairy tale had been produced in black and white in 1931.