Pizzicato Pussycat

1955 film

Pizzicato Pussycat

Directed by| I. Freleng
Story by| Warren Foster
Produced by| Edward Selzer
Starring| Mel Blanc
Marian Richman
Norman Nesbitt
Narrated by| Norman Nesbitt
Edited by| Treg Brown
Music by| Milt Franklyn
Animation by| Virgil Ross
Manuel Perez
Layouts by| Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds by| Richard H. Thomas
Color process| Color

Production
company

Warner Bros. Cartoons

Distributed by| Warner Bros. Pictures

Release date

* January 1, 1955 (1955-01-01)

Running time

| 7:20
Language| English

Pizzicato Pussycat is a 1955 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng.[1] The short was released on January 1, 1955.[2]

## Plot

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Mr. and Mrs. Jones, a suburban couple, are puzzled by mysterious piano music in their home, long after their daughter's toy piano vanished. A mouse strikes a deal with their cat, promising a piano performance in exchange for his life. The cat hides the mouse and toy piano in a real piano, deceiving the Joneses. Media frenzy ensues, with scientists baffled by the cat's musical talent. Contracts are signed for public performances, culminating in a disastrous show at Carnegie Hall. Exposed as a fraud, the cat and mouse revert to their usual antics until they bond over jazz music. The Joneses keep their unconventional pets a secret.

## Music

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* "Waltz Op. 64 No. 1 in D flat major" aka "Minute Waltz" by Frédéric Chopin
* "Crazy Rhythm" by Joseph Meyer and Roger Wolfe Kahn
* "Me-ow" by Mel B. Kaufman
* "Home Sweet Home" aka "There's No Place Like Home", by H.R. Bishop
* "Liebestraum No. 3" by Franz Liszt
* "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14" by Franz Liszt

## References

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1. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 268\. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

## See also

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* List of American films of 1955

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Friz Freleng

1920s|

* Fiery Fireman (1928)
* Weary Willies (1929)

1930s|

* Bosko in Dutch (1933)
* Bosko in Person (1933)
* Beau Bosko (1933)
* Bosko's Picture Show (1933)
* Buddy the Gob (1934)
* Buddy and Towser (1934)
* Beauty and the Beast (1934)
* Buddy's Trolley Troubles (1934)
* Goin' to Heaven on a Mule (1934)
* How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934)
* Why Do I Dream Those Dreams (1934)
* The Girl at the Ironing Board (1934)
* The Miller's Daughter (1934)
* Shake Your Powder Puff (1934)
* Those Beautiful Dames (1934)
* Pop Goes Your Heart (1934)
* Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name (1935)
* Country Boy (1935)
* I Haven't Got a Hat (1935)
* Along Flirtation Walk (1935)
* My Green Fedora (1935)
* Into Your Dance (1935)
* Country Mouse (1935)
* The Merry Old Soul (1935)
* The Lady in Red (1935)
* Little Dutch Plate (1935)
* Billboard Frolics (1935)
* Flowers for Madame (1935)
* I Wanna Play House (1936)
* The Cat Came Back (1936)
* I'm a Big Shot Now (1936)
* Let It Be Me (1936)
* Bingo Crosbyana (1936)
* When I Yoo Hoo (1936)
* Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936)
* At Your Service Madame (1936)
* Toy Town Hall (1936)
* Boulevardier from the Bronx (1936)
* The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (1936)
* He Was Her Man (1936)
* Pigs Is Pigs (1937)
* The Fella with a Fiddle (1937)
* She Was an Acrobat's Daughter (1937)
* Clean Pastures (1937)
* Streamlined Greta Green (1937)
* Sweet Sioux (1937)
* Plenty of Money and You (1937)
* Dog Daze (1937)
* The Lyin' Mouse (1937)
* September in the Rain (1937)
* My Little Buckaroo (1938)
* Jungle Jitters (1938)
* A Star is Hatched (1938)
* Poultry Pirates (1938)
* A Day at the Beach (1938)
* The Pygmy Hunt (1938)
* Honduras Hurricane (1938)
* The Captain's Christmas (1938)
* Petunia Natural Park (1939)
* Seal Skinners (1939)
* Mama's New Hat (1939)
* The Bookworm (1939)
* The Mad Maestro (1939)

1940s|

* Confederate Honey (1940)
* The Hardship of Miles Standish (1940)
* You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
* Little Blabbermouse (1940)
* Porky's Baseball Broadcast (1940)
* Malibu Beach Party (1940)
* Calling Dr. Porky (1940)
* Porky's Hired Hand (1940)
* Shop Look & Listen (1940)
* The Fighting 69½th (1941)
* The Cat's Tale (1941)
* Porky's Bear Facts (1941)
* The Trial of Mr. Wolf (1941)
* Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941)
* Sport Chumpions (1941)
* Notes to You (1941)
* Rookie Revue (1941)
* Rhapsody in Rivets (1941)
* Hop Skip and a Chump (1942)
* Porky's Pastry Pirates (1942)
* The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942)
* Saps in Chaps (1942)
* Lights Fantastic (1942)
* Double Chaser (1942)
* Foney Fables (1942)
* Fresh Hare (1942)
* The Sheepish Wolf (1942)
* The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942)
* Ding Dog Daddy (1942)
* Pigs in a Polka (1943)
* The Fifth-Column Mouse (1943)
* Greetings Bait (1943)
* Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943)
* Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943)
* Gripes (1943)
* Hiss and Make Up (1943)
* Daffy – The Commando (1943)
* Rumors (1943)
* Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
* Meatless Flyday (1944)
* Snafuperman (1944)
* Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)
* Duck Soup to Nuts (1944)
* Slightly Daffy (1944)
* Hare Force (1944)
* Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944)
* Payday (1944)
* Target: Snafu (1944)
* Three Brothers (1944)
* Stage Door Cartoon (1944)
* Herr Meets Hare (1945)
* Life with Feathers (1945)
* Hare Trigger (1945)
* Ain't That Ducky (1945)
* Hot Spot (1945)
* Peck Up Your Troubles (1945)
* Operation Snafu (1945)
* Baseball Bugs (1946)
* Holiday for Shoestrings (1946)
* Hollywood Daffy (1946)
* Of Thee I Sting (1946)
* Racketeer Rabbit (1946)
* Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
* The Gay Anties (1947)
* Tweetie Pie (1947)
* Rabbit Transit (1947)
* A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947)
* Along Came Daffy (1947)
* Slick Hare (1947)
* Back Alley Oproar (1948)
* I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)
* Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
* Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)
* Hare Splitter (1948)
* Kit for Cat (1948)
* Hare Do (1949)
* Wise Quackers (1949)
* High Diving Hare (1949)
* Curtain Razor (1949)
* Mouse Mazurka (1949)
* Knights Must Fall (1949)
* Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949)
* Dough for the Do-Do (1949)
* Each Dawn I Crow (1949)
* Which Is Witch (1949)

1950s|

* Home Tweet Home (1950)
* Mutiny on the Bunny (1950)
* The Lion's Busy (1950)
* Big House Bunny (1950)
* His Bitter Half (1950)
* All a Bir-r-r-d (1950)
* Golden Yeggs (1950)
* Bunker Hill Bunny (1950)
* Canary Row (1950)
* Stooge for a Mouse (1950)
* Canned Feud (1951)
* Rabbit Every Monday (1951)
* Putty Tat Trouble (1951)
* A Bone for a Bone (1951)
* The Fair-Haired Hare (1951)
* Room and Bird (1951)
* His Hare-Raising Tale (1951)
* Tweety's S.O.S. (1951)
* Ballot Box Bunny (1951)
* Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951)
* Gift Wrapped (1952)
* Foxy by Proxy (1952)
* 14 Carrot Rabbit (1952)
* Little Red Rodent Hood (1952)
* Ain't She Tweet (1952)
* Cracked Quack (1952)
* A Bird in a Guilty Cage (1952)
* Tree for Two (1952)
* Hare Lift (1952)
* Snow Business (1953)
* A Mouse Divided (1953)
* Fowl Weather (1953)
* Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)
* Ant Pasted (1953)
* Hare Trimmed (1953)
* Tom Tom Tomcat (1953)
* A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953)
* Catty Cornered (1953)
* Robot Rabbit (1953)
* Dog Pounded (1954)
* Captain Hareblower (1954)
* I Gopher You (1954)
* Bugs and Thugs (1954)
* Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954)
* Muzzle Tough (1954)
* Satan's Waitin' (1954)
* Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954)
* Goo Goo Goliath (1954)
* By Word of Mouse (1954)
* Pizzicato Pussycat (1955)
* Pests for Guests (1955)
* Stork Naked (1955)
* Sahara Hare (1955)
* Sandy Claws (1955)
* Hare Brush (1955)
* Tweety's Circus (1955)
* Lumber Jerks (1955)
* This Is a Life? (1955)
* A Kiddie's Kitty (1955)
* Hyde and Hare (1955)
* Speedy Gonzales (1955)
* Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955)
* Roman Legion-Hare (1955)
* Heir-Conditioned (1955)
* Pappy's Puppy (1955)
* Tweet and Sour (1956)
* Rabbitson Crusoe (1956)
* Tree Cornered Tweety (1956)
* Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956)
* Tugboat Granny (1956)
* A Star Is Bored (1956)
* Yankee Dood It (1956)
* Two Crows from Tacos (1956)
* Three Little Bops (1957)
* Tweet Zoo (1957)
* Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957)
* Piker's Peak (1957)
* Birds Anonymous (1957)
* Bugsy and Mugsy (1957)
* Greedy for Tweety (1957)
* Show Biz Bugs (1957)
* Gonzales' Tamales (1957)
* Hare-Less Wolf (1958)
* A Pizza Tweety-Pie (1958)
* A Waggily Tale (1958)
* Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
* A Bird in a Bonnet (1958)
* Trick or Tweet (1959)
* Apes of Wrath (1959)
* Mexicali Shmoes (1959)
* Tweet and Lovely (1959)
* Wild and Woolly Hare (1959)
* Here Today, Gone Tamale (1959)
* Tweet Dreams (1959)

1960s|

* Horse Hare (1960)
* Goldimouse and the Three Cats (1960)
* Person to Bunny (1960)
* Hyde and Go Tweet (1960)
* Mouse and Garden (1960)
* From Hare to Heir (1960)
* Trip for Tat (1960)
* Lighter Than Hare (1960)
* D' Fightin' Ones (1961)
* The Rebel Without Claws (1961)
* The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961)
* Prince Violent (1961)
* The Last Hungry Cat (1961)
* Crows' Feat (1962)
* Mexican Boarders (1962)
* Honey's Money (1962)
* The Jet Cage (1962)
* Shishkabugs (1962)
* Devil's Feud Cake (1963)
* Mexican Cat Dance (1963)
* Chili Weather (1963)
* The Unmentionables (1963)
* Nuts and Volts (1964)
* Pancho's Hideaway (1964)
* The Pink Phink (1964)
* Pink Pajamas (1964)
* Road to Andalay (1964)
* It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (1965)
* Cats and Bruises (1965)
* We Give Pink Stamps (1965)
* The Wild Chase (1965)
* Dial "P" for Pink (1965)
* Moby Duck (1965, producer)
* Sink Pink (1965)
* Assault and Peppered (1965)
* Pickled Pink (1965)
* Pinkfinger (1965)
* Shocking Pink (1965)
* Well Worn Daffy (1965)
* Pink Ice (1965)
* Suppressed Duck (1965)
* Corn on the Cop (1965)
* Rushing Roulette (1965)
* Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner (1965)
* The Pink Tail Fly (1965)
* Tease for Two (1965)
* Tired and Feathered (1965)
* Boulder Wham! (1965)
* Chili Corn Corny (1965)
* Just Plane Beep (1965)
* Hairied and Hurried (1965)
* Go Go Amigo (1965)
* Highway Runnery (1965)
* The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (1965)
* Chaser on the Rocks (1965)
* The Astroduck (1965)
* Shot and Bothered (1966)
* Out and Out Rout (1966)
* Mucho Locos (1966)
* The Solid Tin Coyote (1966)
* Mexican Mousepiece (1966)
* Clippety Clobbered (1966)
* Daffy Rents (1966)
* A-Haunting We Will Go (1966)
* Snow Excuse (1966)
* A Squeak in the Deep (1966)
* Feather Finger (1966)
* Swing Ding Amigo (1966)
* Sugar and Spies (1966)
* A Taste of Catnip (1966)
* Daffy's Diner (1967)
* The Ant and the Aardvark (1969)
* Hasty But Tasty (1969)
* The Ant From Uncle (1969)
* I've Got Ants in My Plans (1969)
* Technology, Phooey (1969)
* Never Bug an Ant (1969)
* Dune Bug (1969)

1970s|

* Scratch the Tiger (1970)
* Odd Ant Out (1970)
* Ants in the Pantry (1970)
* Science Friction (1970)
* Humbo Jumbo (1970)
* The Froze Nose Knows (1970)
* Don't Hustle an Ant with Muscle (1970)
* Rough Bunch (1971)
* From Bed to Worse (1971)
* Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979)
* Fright Before Christmas (1979)
* Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)

1980s|

* The Chocolate Chase (1980)
* Daffy Duck's Easter Special (1980)
* The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
* Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
* Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island (1983)

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