The Truth About Mother Goose (1957)

We learn the true stories behind various nursery rhymes Little Jack Horner a servant to a city official was delivering a present to King Henry VIII baked as was the custom of the time in a pie The present was the deed to a valuable estate which Horner stole Mary Mary Quite Contrary Mary Stuart brought quite contrary French style to the Scottish court After a series of disastrous romances she was jailed the jailers son captivated by her helped her escape After a brief but disastrous attempted coup she fled to England where her sister Queen Elizabeth soon grew jealous and had her imprisoned London Bridge The bridge finished in 1209 was soon lined by shops with luxury apartments upstairs turning into a popular commercial and cultural zone The Great Fire that broke out in 1666 spread to the bridge but the houses were rebuilt Over the ages things decayed In 1823 things finally got bad enough that the bridge was demolished and replaced