text: The melodrama spoofs continued as an occasional series over the next six years, with Oil Can Harry and Pearl Pureheart returning in thirteen more cartoons. Another memorable short was 1949's The Perils of Pearl Pureheart, in which Oil Can Harry hypnotizes Pearl into singing "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" on stage at an old saloon, where he vacuums up the tips thrown by the audience. Hypnotized for three and a half minutes of the six-minute cartoon, Pearl continues to sing as the battle between Harry and Mighty Mouse rages around her, even underwater.
  To vary the formula, the melodramas started traveling to exotic locales, including Italy (Sunny Italy, 1951), Switzerland (Swiss Miss, 1951), Holland (Happy Holland, 1952) and even prehistoric times (Prehistoric Perils, 1952) and medieval times (When Mousehood Was in Flower, 1953).
  The fourteen Oil Can Harry melodrama theatricals were:
  A Fight to the Finish (1947)
  Loves Labor Won (1948)
  The Mysterious Stranger (1948)
  Triple Trouble (1948)
  A Cold Romance (1949)
  The Perils of Pearl Pureheart (1949)
  Stop, Look and Listen (1949)
  Beauty on the Beach (1950)
  Sunny Italy (1951)
  Swiss Miss (1951)
  Prehistoric Perils (1952)
  Happy Holland (1952)
  A Soapy Opera (1953)
  When Mousehood Was in Flower (1953)
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