Mammy Two Shoes
Theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoons
Theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoons
Mammy Two Shoes, in a scene from the Tom & Jerry short Saturday Evening Puss, whose full face was shown for the first time.
Mammy first appeared in Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon (except Tom was called "Jasper"). The character went on to make many appearances through 1952's Push-Button Kitty. From 1954's Pet Peeve, the owner of the house became a young, white, middle-class couple, and starting with 1955's The Flying Sorceress, the audience was able to see the heads of the owner(s).
In 1961, when Rembrandt Films began producing Tom and Jerry shorts, the owner of the house became a corpulent white man. The character was designed by Gene Deitch, who recycled the design from his Terrytoons character Clint Clobber. This new owner was more graphically brutal in punishing Tom's mistakes as compared to Mammy Two Shoes, such as beating and thrashing Tom repeatedly, searing his face with a grill and forcing Tom to drink an entire carbonated beverage. The character was introduced in Down and Outing as a fisherman who owned Tom as well as their house, and later appeared in High Steaks as a chef, and Sorry Safari as a hunter before being dropped soon afterward. Ever since, Tom's owner has varied, including a housewife very similar to the re-edited Mammy in the later Deitch short Buddies Thicker Than Water, and the direct-to-DVD film Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry.
Mammy was originally voiced by well-known African-american character actress Lillian Randolph. In the 1960s, the MGM animation studio, by then under the supervision of Chuck Jones, created censored versions of the Tom & Jerry cartoons featuring Mammy for television. These versions used rotoscoping techniques to replace Mammy on-screen with a thin white woman, and the voice on the soundtracks was replaced by an Irish-accented voice performed by white actress June Foray.
The original versions of the cartoons were reinstated when Turner Broadcasting acquired ownership of the Tom & Jerry property. In 1992, the cartoons featuring Mammy were edited to replace Lillian Randolph's voice with that of Thea Vidale, whose dialogue was redone to remove the Mammy character's use of potentially offensive dialect. These versions of the cartoons are aired to this day on Turner's Cartoon Network-related cable channels, and have turned up on DVD as well. However, some European TV showings of these cartoons, especially the UK, retain Randolph's original voice. The Region 2 Complete Collectors Edition DVD boxset has Vidale's voice on the first DVD and Randolph in a number of the episodes after that (such as A Mouse in the House and Mouse Cleaning).
Tom and Jerry Tales
In the modern Tom and Jerry Tales a redesigned Mammy has appeared and was now named Mrs. Two Shoes, debuting in the short Ho, Ho Horrors and turning up again later on. Though keeping her buxom, overweight build, tough personality, Southern accent and tendency to call Tom "Thomas," Mammy's skin tone has changed to Caucasian, presumably to avoid any possible controversy. Several photos on a mantle in Ho, Ho Horrors also imply that Mammy now has a family (a man and a boy, also shown only as legs and partial torsos), though they have yet to appear in actual animation. In the short Power Tom the story casts Mammy as a superheroine called Power Gal, though it's only for this one cartoon.
In the new shorts, the now-Caucasian Mammy is explicitly called "Mrs. Two-Shoes".
Featured shorts
Tom and Jerry
Puss Gets the Boot
The Midnight Snack
Fraidy Cat
Dog Trouble
Puss N' Toots
The Lonesome Mouse
The Mouse Comes to Dinner
Part Time Pal
A Mouse in the House
Old Rockin' Chair Tom
Mouse Cleaning
Polka-Dot Puss
The Little Orphan (cameo)
Saturday Evening Puss
The Framed Cat (cameo)
Sleepy-Time Tom
Nit-Witty Kitty
Triplet Trouble
Push-Button Kitty
Tom and Jerry Tales (as Mrs. Two Shoes)
Ho, Ho Horrors
Tin Cat of Tomorrow
Power Tom
Cat Show Catastrophe
Invasion of the Body Slammers
Little Big Mouse
Monkey Chow
Game of Mouse and Cat
Major appearances
The Lonesome Mouse - She's tricked by Tom's and Jerry's truce.
Part Time Pal
Old Rockin' Chair Tom - She takes a cat named Lightning.
Sleepy-Time Tom - She keeps an eye on Tom if he's sleeping on the job.
Push-Button Kitty - She orders a robocat called Mechano.
Tin Cat of Tomorrow - She orders a robocat called Mechanico.
Power Tom - She disguises herself as Power Gal to save Tom and Jerry from Butch, Lightning and Topsy in robbing.
Voice actors who portrayed Mammy Two Shoes
Lillian Randolph: 1940 - 1952
June Foray: Replaced Voice in the shorts with Mammy as a white woman
Nicole Oliver: Tom and Jerry Tales
Notes
In Tom and Jerry books, she's often referred to as Cook.
References
^ http://genedeitch.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=chapter&chapter=15a&page=2
^ A History of Mammy Twoshoes
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Tom and Jerry
Main characters
Tom Jerry
Recurring characters
Mammy Two Shoes Spike Tyke Butch Tuffy/Nibbles Quacker Toodles Galore Lightning Topsy Meathead
Theatrical shorts
Tom and Jerry (19401958, 19611967 and 2005) Spike and Tyke (spin-off, 1957)
Television shows
The Tom and Jerry Show (ABC, 1975) The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (CBS, 19801982) Tom & Jerry Kids (FOX, 19901993) Tom and Jerry Tales (The CW, 20062008)
Packaged and programming
Tom and Jerry (CBS, 1965-1972) Tom and Jerry's Funhouse on TBS (TBS, 19861989) Cartoon Network's Tom and Jerry Show (Cartoon Network, 1992resent)
Television specials
Tom and Jerry Halloween Special (TBS special, 1987) A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration: 50 years of Hanna-Barbera (TNT special, 1989) Tom and Jerry: The Mansion Cat (Cartoon Network special, 2000)
Theatrical films
Tom and Jerry: The Movie (Theatrical film, 1992) Tom and Jerry (Theatrical film, TBA)
Direct-to-video films
Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (2001) Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars (2004) Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005) Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers (2006) Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale (2007)
Other formats
Tom and Jerry video games Tom and Jerry music
Related
William Hanna Joseph Barbera Scott Bradley MGM cartoon studio Turner Entertainment
See also: List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
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