Make Mine Music (1946)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Directors:

Bob Cormack
Clyde Geronimi

Writers:

Homer Brightman (story) &
Dick Huemer (story) ...

Release Date:

15 August 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Music

Plot:

Animation done to modern (for the 1940s) music.

Plot Keywords:

Disney Animated Feature | Anthology | Kids And Family

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Nelson Eddy	...	Narrator / Characters (segment "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met") (voice)
Dinah Shore	...	Herself (voice)
Benny Goodman	...	Himself
The Andrews Sisters	...	Themselves (voice) (as Andrews Sisters)
Jerry Colonna	...	Narrator (segment "Casey at the Bat") (voice)
Andy Russell	...	Himself (voice)
Sterling Holloway	...	Narrator (segment "Peter and the Wolf") (voice)
Tania Riabouchinskaya	...	Herself (as Riabouchinska)
David Lichine	...	Himself (as Lichine)
The Pied Pipers	...	Themselves (voice) (as Pied Pipers)
The Ken Darby Singers	...	Themselves (voice) (as Ken Darby Chorus)

Runtime:

75 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Finland:K-8 | USA:Approved (PCA #10562, General Audience) | Sweden:15

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Trivia:

One of Disney's four "Package Films". During the second World War, the studio lost a lot of manpower and resources which left them with countless unfinished ideas too long for shorts, too short for features. So, inventive as they are, they stuck short ideas together into feature length movies. See also The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), Melody Time (1948) and _Fun and Fancy Free (1947)_.

Quotes:

[last lines]
Narrator: [Willie impaled by a harpoon by Prof. Tetti-Tatti] Now Willie will never sing at the met. But don't be too harsh on Tetti-Tatti; he just didn't understand. You see, Willie's singing was a miracle, and people aren't used to miracles.
[to Willie's seagull friend who mourns the whale's loss]
Narrator: And you, faithful little friend, don't be too sad, because miracles never really die. And somewhere in wherever heaven is reserved for creatures of the deep, Willie is still singing, in a hundred voices, each more golden than before, and he'll go on singing in a voice so cheery forever.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Disneyland: This Is Your Life Donald Duck (#6.23)" (1960)

Soundtrack:

Peter and the Wolf

My views about Walt Disney's "Make Mine Music"

I'm a UK viewer and I saw "Make Mine Music" in the late 1940's,when it was newly released . I had seen and been excited by "Fantasia" and the "MMM" numbers, as a late teenager, I found hugely enjoyable. I'm sad to learn that the "Martins and the Coys" number has been deleted - it was fun and the hill billy feuding' was something we'd found amusing and harmless. I disagree with some of the comments on the individual numbers, particularly "Without You" by Andy Russell and "Two Silhouettes" by Dinah Shore, both of which made an impression on me and I've been trying to obtain a record of the former for years, without success. I have fond memories of "Johnny Fedora and Alic Blue Bonnet" (absurdly sentimental though it was)and can sing the first lines to this day. The Benny Goodman numbers are superb - musically and animation-wise - but then I'm a B.G.fan and ever will be. "Peter and the Wolf" persuaded me to listen to the real classical version and, subsequently, to buy the sound track record. Perhaps I do agree with the viewer who found Jerry Colonna's rendering of "Casey" a lemon but then you either take Jerry's versions of things or you don't. Nelson ("The singing capon")Eddy's version of "Willie" was a delight, though in later years it may have made one more conscious of the bloody aspects of whale hunting. Anyway, it was good to hear Nelson without "Heart of Steel" Jeanette MacDonald. You see, without seeing the film again the memories come tumbling out and I've given it a 9 for more reasons than one. Please will somebody tell me where I can obtain a VHS copy ? David Miles