Pizzicato Pussycat

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]

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 with the cat realizing that he is talented with the drums with the mouse inspired to play his piano with him as a duo. The Joneses, unwilling to go through the same fuss again, keep their unconventional pets a secret and enjoy the music by themselves.

• "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

• List of American films of 1955