Make Mine Music

***Make Mine Music*** is a 1946 animated movie, produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was first released to movie theaters by RKO Radio Pictures on August 15, 1946. _Make Mine Music_ was re-issued to theaters on May 13, 1957, June 19, 1968, July 26, 1978, April 2, 1984, June 19, 1987 and the 50th anniversary on June 14, 1996. _Make Mine Music_ was re-issued in United Kingdom on January 1, 1983. The 8th animated movie in the Disney animated movie canon, it stars Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Benny Goodman, and The Andrews Sisters.

## Segments

The movie is made of ten parts.

- _The Martins and the Coys_ features popular radio vocal group, King's Men singing the story of a Hatfields and McCoys-style feud in the mountains broken up when two young people from each side fall in love. This segment was later cut from the film's video release due to comic gunplay.
- _Blue Bayou_ features animation originally intended for _Fantasia_ using the Debussy musical composition Clair de Lune.
- _All the Cats Join In_ is one of two segments to which Benny Goodman contributed. A pencil draws the action as it is happening. 1940s teens are swept away by popular music.
- _Without You_ is a ballad of lost love, sung by Andy Russell.
- _Casey at the Bat_ features Jerry Colonna, reciting the famous poem about the arrogant baseball player whose pride was his undoing.
- _Two Silhouettes_ features two live-action ballet dancers, David Lichine and Tania Riabouchinskaya, moving in silhouette with animated backgrounds and characters. Dinah Shore sings the title song.
- _Peter and the Wolf_ features Sterling Holloway narrating an adaptation of Prokofiev's composition about a little boy who goes hunting for a wolf, with each of the characters being represented by a member of an orchestra (violins, flute, etc.).
- _After You've Gone_ again has Benny Goodman and his orchestra as four anthropomorphized instruments parade through a musical playground.
- _Johnnie Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnett_ tells the romantic story of two hats who fall in love in a department store window. When Alice is sold, Johnny tries to find her. The Andrews Sisters provide the voices.
- _The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met_ is the story about a Sperm Whale, named Willie, with great musical talent and his dreams of singing Grand Opera. However, the producer of the theater, Tetti-Tatti, thinks Willie swallowed an opera singer, and Tetti-Tatti chases Willie with a harpoon (a spear used to on whales). In the end, Willie is killed, but the narrator tells the viewers that Willie sings on in heaven. Nelson Eddy performed all the voices in this segment.

## Production

During World War II, much of Walt Disney's staff was drafted into the United States Army, and those that were still there were called upon by the U.S. government to make training and propaganda films. As a result, the studio was littered with unfinished story ideas. In order to keep the movie division alive during this difficult time, the studio released four package films including this one, made up of various unrelated segments set to music.

## Cast

|Actor|Role(s)|
| --- | --- |
|Nelson Eddy|Narrator; Characters (_The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met_)|
|Dinah Shore|Singer (_Two Sillhouettes_)|
|Benny Goodman|Music composer (_All the Cats Join In_; _After You've Gone_)|
|The Andrews Sisters|Singers (_Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet_)|
|Jerry Colonna|Narrator; Characters (_Casey At the Bat_)|
|Sterling Holloway|Narrator (_Peter and the Wolf_)|
|Andy Russel|Singer (_Without You_)|
|David Lichine|Dancer (_Two Silhouettes_)|
|Tania Riabouchinskaya|Dancer (_Two Silhouettes_)|
|The Pied Pipers|Singers|
|The King's Men|Singers (_The Martins and the Coys_)|
|The Ken Darby Chorus|Singers (_Blue Bayou_)|

## Release

_Make Mine Music_ is the only movie in the Disney animated features canon not to gain a Region 4 and Region 2 DVD release. Its only home video release was on DVD on June 6, 2000 under the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection title.

## Reception

_Make Mine Music_ ended up being a slight disappointment itself, particularly from Walt Disney's point of view. It was not well received by the critics either. Years later, the segments were individually released as short subjects or used in various Disney television programs.

The movie was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.

## Titles in other languages

- Japanese: メイク・マイン・ミュージック (Meiku Main Myūzikku)
- (also known as **' in Latin America)
- (also known as **')

## Infobox (movie)

- **name**: Make Mine Music
- **writer**: James Bordrero
Homer Brightman
Erwin Graham
Eric Gurney
T. Hee
Sylvia Holland
Dick Huemer
Dick Kelsey
Dick Kelsey
Jesse Marsh
Tom Oreb
Cap Palmer
Erdman Penner
Harry Reeves
Dick Shaw
John Walbridge
Roy Williams
- **director**: Jack Kinney
Clyde Geronimi
Hamilton Luske
Joshua Meador
Robert Cormack
- **producer**: Walt Disney
- **studio**: Walt Disney Pictures
- **distributor**: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
- **released**: April 20, 1946 (New York City premiere)
 August 15,1946 (general)
- **starring**: Nelson Eddy
Dinah Shore
Benny Goodman
The Andrews Sisters
Jerry Colonna
Sterling Holloway
Andy Russell
David Lichine
Tania Riabouchinskaya
The Pied Pipers
The King's Men
The Ken Darby Chorus
- **music**: Oliver Wallace
Eliot Daniel
Charles Wolcott
- **runtime**: 75 minutes
- **language**: English