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 | | Animator Rudolf Ising created Foxy as the star of the new Merrie Melodies series he was directing for producer Leon Schlesinger (Ising had already helped his partner Hugh Harman create another series, entitled Looney Tunes). |
 | | Foxy's first appearance on screen was in "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!" (first released in August, 1931), a standard musical comedy of the era, here set in a Western saloon (this was also the first Merrie Melodies short). |
 | | The character and his nameless girlfriend would appear in two more cartoons that same year directed by Ising: "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!" (September 5, 1931), a musical set on a trolley and usually considered one of the better Ising Merrie Melodies, and "One More Time" (October 3, 1931), a musical cops-n-robbers short. |
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