Lady, Play Your Mandolin! is a 1931 Merrie Melodies short directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising.
Plot[]
Animal patrons at a Mexican cafe sing the title song. Foxy rides up on his horse, but when the horse tries to go inside, he ties its neck around a cactus. He enters the cafe and sings. Roxy takes the stage, playing her mandolin, and Foxy joins her in a duet. When the horse frees itself and sings with them, Foxy steps out and clobbers it with a bottle. Foxy and Roxy finish their song, but as the music plays out, the horse stumbles in, drinks a bottle of firewater, begins hallucinating, and dances so fast that he catches fire. A mouse climbs out of the horse's singed pants and slams a garbage can lid for the final cymbal clang.
Availability[]
(2003) DVD
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1, Disc Three (part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons)
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1, Disc Three (part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons)
(2005) DVD
Little Caesar
Little Caesar
(2012) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc Three (part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons)
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc Three (part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons)
(2013) Blu-ray
Little Caesar (part of Warner Night at the Movies (SD, 21 minutes))
Little Caesar (part of Warner Night at the Movies (SD, 21 minutes))
(2023) Blu-ray
Cimarron (restored)
Cimarron (restored)
Streaming[]
Warner Bros. Discovery RIDE (2021 - 2023) (restored)
Notes[]
- Starting with this short, all Looney Tunes shorts would be directed by Hugh Harman, and all Merrie Melodies shorts would be directed by Rudolf Ising until 1933.
- This short has rarely been shown since its original release.[2] It was shown as part of the ToonHeads special The Lost Warner Bros. Cartoons with some parts cut for time, but was not released uncut until the Little Caesar DVD.
- This is the first Merrie Melodie to be produced and released.
- This short marks the debut of Foxy and Roxy.
- This short entered the public domain in 1960 due to Sunset Productions failing to renew its copyright in time.
- This short has a unique version of the "Get Happy" opening theme.
- This is the only Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies cartoon not to be in the Associated Artists Productions package, having already been sold to Sunset Productions.
- MeTV+ aired a previously unreleased restored print of this cartoon on Sunday Night Cartoons, which would later be added to the Warner Bros. Discovery RIDE streaming service and released on the Cimarron Blu-ray.
Gallery[]
Lobby card
References[]
- ↑ https://www.booktopia.com.au/cartoon-voices-of-the-golden-age-vol-2-keith-scott/ebook/9798215217610.html
- ↑ Toon Heads: The Lost Warner Bros. Cartoons