Pizzicato Pussycat

Pizzicato Pussycat (1955)

Mr. and Mrs. Jones hear a piano being played in their living room. They automatically assume it is their cat who is making the music, when in fact, the talented one is a mouse whom the cat has forced into being his stooge to make him famous. The cat is showered with media attention and set to play at Carnegie Hall, where he hopes nobody will notice that he is pantomiming the movements with the keys while the mouse is playing his miniature piano inside the full-scale model.

Date of release
1955-01-01
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (16)
Runtime
7m
Genres
Animation
Director
Friz Freleng

Casting

  • Mel Blanc — John Jones / Mouse / Cat / Doctors / Concert Audience Members (voice)
  • Norman Nesbitt — Narrator / Concert Audience Member / Doctor (voice)
  • Marian Richman — Mrs. Vy Jones (voice)

Interesting facts

Pizzicato Pussycat is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng, released on January 1, 1955. The first half of the title is a playing technique for string instruments that involves plucking instead of using a bow, and also serves as an allusion to the theme of the short.

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