Original production animation drawing of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse from "Puppy Love," 1933, Walt Disney Studios; Graphite and red pencils on peg hole paper; Numbered 65 lower right; Size - Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse: 4 x 3 1/4", Sheet 9 1/2 x 12"; Unframed.
"Puppy Love," released on September 2, 1933, is a black-and-white
animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by
Wilfred Jackson. Walt Disney is the voice of Mickey Mouse and Marcellite
Garner is the voice of Minnie Mouse.
The story of "Puppy Love" is that Mickey and his dog Pluto have come to call on Minnie and her dog Fifi. Mickey brings a bouquet of flowers and a heart shaped box of candy. As Mickey and Minnie begin playing the piano and singing the song "Puppy Love," Pluto and Fifi begin to flirt with each other. Pluto gives the unopened box of chocolates, that Mickey had brought to Minnie, to Fifi. When Fifi eats the chocolates, Pluto puts Fifi's bone into the empty box and returns it to the living room. When Minnie opens the candy box for the first time and reveals the bone, Minnie mistakingly thinks Mickey was playing a mean joke on her and suddenly a violent argument begins. Mickey and Pluto storm out of the house; and they along with Minnie, each vow to give up the opposite sex. But when Fifi reveals to Minnie the heart shaped box with a few left over chocolates; Minnie realizes that it was the dogs that had eaten the chocolates and then put the dog bone in the box. Mickey and Minnie, along with Pluto and Fife, reunite in the end!
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