There's this movie I saw in my childhood, and for the life of me I cannot think of its name. There is this boy who is tormented by bullies and one day they're chasing him home from school and he runs into this old barn to hide; ignoring the keep out signs. Inside the barn he finds this old chest that opens up somehow and something comes out from the inside (perhaps a frog?) and starts singing, "Hello my baby, hello my darlin' hello my ragtime gal.... baby my heart's on fire..". The boy is afraid and runs home and nobody is there. I think the thing inside the chest follows him home and then kind of becomes his friend. The only other part of the movie I remember is that the thing is at a play the boy goes to and it is Romeo and Juliet. As someone is saying, "Yonder window breaks," the thing makes a window actually break in the play. If anyone knows the name of this movie please help! It will be greatly appreciated. I don't know anyone in the cast because it was before I even knew any actors or actresses.. maybe about 8 or 9 years ago. Thanks a bunch!

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by Anonymous on Nov 20, 2004 at 7:28 AM

That "singing frog" made its appearance in a Warner Brothers' cartoon dating from the late 1940's or early 50's.

A construction worker opens a box in an old building being demolished and finds the frog, which dons a tophat and twirling a cane, begins strutting about in a dance number and singing the same song you mention.
The worker thinks he has made his fortune with this discovery only to find the frog only performs in his presence, elsewhere, the frog is common amphibian, occasionally uttering a long drawn out "crooooooaaaaaak". Frustrated, the worker replaces the frog in a "timebox" and places the box in a building under construction.
At some point in the distant future, another worker demolishing the now obsolete structure discovers the box, and within it, the singing frog.

This is an animated short, not a feature movie.

Is it possible you are combining two or more memories?

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by Anonymous on Nov 20, 2004 at 11:00 AM

Thanks, and that also sounds very familiar to me and I believe I have seen it on tv before, but I've asked another person whom I watched this movie with and he says he remembers it too. It's too clear in my mind to just be an animated short and I remember it being with real people because it was one of the first movies I watched without cartoons in it.

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by Anonymous on Nov 20, 2004 at 11:00 AM

Does anyone else have any ideas what it might be?

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