A Hare Grows in Manhattan is a 1947 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng and starring Bugs Bunny and a pack a of bulldogs (one resembles Hector).
A Hare Grows in Manhattan is a 1947 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng and starring Bugs Bunny and a pack a of bulldogs (one resembles Hector).
The cartoon begins with the voice of an apparent Hollywood gossip queen named "Lola Beverly" (patterned after famous newspaper and radio columnist Louella Parsons, infrequently known as "Lolly"; note the next sentence) talking behind the camera as it pans across Beverly Hills, settling in on Bugs Bunny's "mansion", which is actually a rabbit hole with fancy trimmings such as columns and a swimming pool. Lola (or "Lolly" as Bugs calls her familiarly, also effecting her hoity-toity manner of speech) coaxes a biographical story out of Bugs, and he talks about growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (presumably accounting for his accent). He is seen tap-dancing down the streets of the Big Apple and singing "The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady" (a song written in 1917 by Walter Donaldson and M