Long-Haired Hare (1949) on Netflix
Bugs Bunny sings and plays banjo on a hillside while opera singer Giovanni Jones rehearses in a nearby house. The ill-tempered Giovanni destroys the banjo, then injures the rabbit twice more.
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Plot summary
Opera singer Giovanni Jones is rehearsing "Largo al Factotum" in a house nearby when a banjo drifts in from the hillside, where Bugs Bunny is singing "A Rainy Night in Rio" and playing. Jones absent-mindedly sings along, then catches himself and marches to the rabbit hole to destroy the banjo. Two further songs of Bugs's end worse for the rabbit: a harp closes on his neck like a vise, and after a sousaphone tune Jones ties his ears around a tree branch and knocks his head against it. Jones wants his rehearsal undisturbed, and Bugs, hurt three times over, vows revenge.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Long-Haired Hare (1949)
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- Giovanni Jones' singing voice remained uncredited and unknown for many years until the DVD commentary identified him as baritone Nicolai G. Shutorev (1914-1948); this cartoon was his only known film role, and he otherwise worked in Hollywood as a choral singer.
- The DVD commentary notes that Bugs Bunny's conducting performance as "Leopold" is a send-up of conductor Leopold Stokowski's energetic style, including his shunning the baton: Bugs makes a point of snapping the baton in half and discarding it.
- The song "My Gal is a High-Born Lady" is given alternate lyrics in the cartoon, as Barney Fagan's original 1896 song had a racially stereotyped subject and lyrics.
