We're in the Money

We're in the Money
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Airdate:	18 August 1933
Series:	Merrie Melodies
Production Number:	MM-13-2
Vitaphone Number:	5954
Runtime:	6 minutes, 45 seconds
Copyright Renewed:	6 April 1961
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Johnny Murray The King's Men Ken Darby (all uncredited)
Director:	Rudolf Ising (uncredited)
Producer:	Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising Leon Schlesinger (associate)
Animated By:	Isadore Freleng Larry Martin Mel Shaw (uncredited)
Film Editor:	Bernard B. Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Frank Marsales

We're in the Money is a 1933 Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising.

Title

"We're In the Money" is a song written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin for the 1933 film Gold Diggers of 1933.

Plot

When an old man leaves a department store and close down for the night, a group of toys comes to life and plays "We're in the Money". Eventually, even the money joins in for a final chorus.

Caricatures

• Mae West - a doll does an impression of her.
• Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy - as mannequin heads.

Availability

(1992) LaserDisc
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 2, Side 1: Musical Madness

(2006) DVD
Gold Diggers of 1933 (USA 1995 Turner print)

(2008) DVD
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc 3 (restored)

(2021) Blu-ray
Gold Diggers of 1933 (HD; restored)

Notes

• This is the last Merrie Melodies short that Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, and Frank Marsales worked on with Leon Schlesinger. Marsales moved over to the Universal/Walter Lantz studio to compose for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, while Harman and Ising moved over to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to open up their cartoon studio.
  • It is the last cartoon in the series to have "Get Happy" as the opening theme song.
• This cartoon heavily reuses footage from "A Great Big Bunch of You", released the previous year. This includes the ending "That's all Folks!" card and most other scenes of the mannequin.
• This is also the latest black-and-white Merrie Melodies short to fall in the Associated Artists Productions package of cartoons. The remaining 1933–1934 black-and-white shorts from the series (the ones that started with "I Think You're Ducky" as the opening theme) would fall under the Sunset Productions/Guild Films package.

Gallery

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