The Story of Regina Hubbard is a 1974 American animated drama film based on Frank Sinatra's comic strip published for the Help! Magazine and loosely based on the 1939 play The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman. Much like the comic strip, this movie does not take place in 1900.
Premise[]
As Regina, a now wealthy person who has been taking a career as an actress while still running the Cotton Mill, tucked Millie, her new adopted child since she found her when she was leaving the synagogue after praying for her sins to be forgiven, to bed, she began reliving what she's done to cause her to be sad and alone until meeting Millie.
A while ago, she used to be Regina Hubbard Giddens, a young southern woman who struggles for wealth and freedom ever since her father named his sons Ben and Oscar as his only heirs out of favouritism. As a result of this practise, while her brothers wielded the family inheritance into two independently substantial fortunes, she has to resort to manipulating her wheelchair-using husband Horace. Despite not being a business man, Horace is her financial support and while he's pilable enough for her ambition, it has result in him being a tool for her greed.
Oscar has married Birdie Bagtry, largely so he could claim her family's Plantation and cotten fields, and later joined forces with Ben to construt a cotten mill. They need an afditional $100.000 to complete it so they asked Regina to invest in the project. Oscar initially propose marriage between his stepson from Birdie's first marriage Leon and her daughter Alexandra to get Horace's money but Alexandra and Horace were both repulsed by the idea, as well as Birdie. Horace refuse to give Regina money so Leon, a bank teller, was pressured into stealing his railroad bonds from the bank's safe deposit box.
Horace, discovering this, tells Regina that he's going to change his will in favour of their daughter and claims he gave Leon the bonds as a loan, thus cutting Regina out of the deal completely but when he had a heart attack during this chat, she, knowing that she'll not be able to get any money, didn't do anything to save him, leaving Horace to die from a heart attack without anyone knowing his plan and before changing the will. This allows Regina to blackmail her brothers by threatening to report Leon for theft unless they give her 75% of the cotten mill, because it's, in her mind, a fair exchange for the stolen goods. Despite becoming wealthy, her actions caused Alexandra to finally understand the importance of not idly watching people go evil. She tells Regina that she'll not watch her be "one who eats the earth" and abandons her with Dave Retill, leaving her wealthy but also alone due to letting her own husband die, alienating her brothers and driving away her own daughter.
In the time since, Regina, since adopting Millie, has began learning how to be a better person and that her greed will cause her nothing but trouble.
Cast[]
June Foray - Regina Patricia Hubbard Giddens (Horace's wife), Birdella "Birdie" Bagtry Hubbard (Regina and Benjamin's sister-in-law), Lavinia Schwartz Hubbard (Horace's mother-in-law)
Frank Sinatra - Horace Giddens (Regina's husband)
Zero Mostel - Benjamin "Ben" Hubbard (Regina's eldest brother), Marcus Hubbard (Horase's father-in-law)
Gene Wilder - Oscar Donald Hubbard (Regina's younger brother), William Marshall (A businessman from the North)
Noel Blanc - Leopold "Leo" Bagtry Hubbard (Birdie's son from her first marriage)
Nancy Sinatra - Alexandra "Alex" Giddens (Regina and Horace's daughter)
Mae Questal - Linda H. Blustel (The family pet sow (and housekeeper) of the Giddens (later Regina))
Lisa Lu - Belle Ling (Addie's best friend)
Sammy Davis Jr - Cal McFlipson (Addie's singer husband), David "Dave" Retill (Alexandra's boyfriend), Mr. Flicker Retill (David's father)
Lillian Randolph - Addie McFlipson (Cal's tap-dancer wife and Regina's childhood friend)