To Bee or Not to Bee

To Bee or Not to Bee is the fifty-fifth Mighty B! theatrical cartoon short starring Amelia Poelher as Bessie Higgenbottom and Jack Mercer as Happy the Dog, and is the final cartoon in the series of Mighty B! cartoons released by Paramount Pictures.

In theaters, it was shown before the Irving Berlin musical Holiday Inn.

Plot
Holding a benefit concert for the war effort, Bessie and Happy re-enact highlights from Shakespeare's work, however (recycling from Bessie in the USO) a Nazi/Japanese spy network attempts to sabotage the event, Bessie and Happy must thwart it and foil their plans.

Availability
Due to the short's World War II ethnic stereotyping of Japanese, the short was banned from TV, but was presented on Turner Classic Movies as part of it's block Cartoon Alley.

To Be or Not to Bee is available on Blu-ray and DVD in the Olive Films release The Mighty B!: Volume 3, 1940-42.