Lady, Play Your Mandolin!

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Screen Shot 2021-07-08 at 9.04.04 PM.png|Screenshot of 2021 restoration
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Screenshot 2022-02-15 012045.png|Screenshot of 2021 restoration from MeTV+
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 ==
LT Golden Collection 1.jpg|(2003) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1, Disc Three (part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons)
Lt little caesar dvd.jpg|(2005) DVD Little Caesar
LTPC VOL 2 Blu Ray.jpg|(2012) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc Three (part of ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons)
Lt little caesar blu.jpg|(2013) Blu-ray Little Caesar (part of Warner Night at the Movies (SD, 21 minutes))
CimarronBluRay.jpg|(2023) Blu-ray Cimarron (restored)
=== Streaming ===
Lt warner bros discovery ride.png|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.Toon Heads: The Lost Warner Bros. Cartoons It was shown as part of the Toon Heads 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 ==
Lady-play-your-mandolin2-600.jpg|Lobby card
Lady-play-mandolin-2-600.jpg|Lobby card
== References ==
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Category:1931
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Rudolf Ising
Category:Foxy Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with music by Frank Marsales
Category:Cartoons animated by Rollin Hamilton
Category:Cartoons animated by Norm Blackburn
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons produced by Hugh Harman
Category:Cartoons produced by Rudolf Ising
Category:Public domain films
Category:Cartoons animated by Larry Martin
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package