Casanova Cat

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Casanova Cat

Tom and Jerry series

The title card of Casanova Cat
Directed by William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Produced by Fred Quimby
Story by William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Music by Scott Bradley
Animation by Irven Spence
Ray Patterson
Ed Barge
Kenneth Muse
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) January 6, 1951
Color process Technicolor
Running time 7 minutes 04 seconds
Preceded by Cue Ball Cat
Followed by Jerry and the Goldfish
IMDb profile

Casanova Cat is a 1951 cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was created in 1950 and released in early 1951.

Contents

[edit] Plot

The Casanova Cat attempts to woo Toodles by humiliating Jerry.
The Casanova Cat attempts to woo Toodles by humiliating Jerry.

Jerry, tied to a bow, is dragged along the sidewalk by Tom, wearing a tophat and carrying flowers and a newspaper article reading "KITTEN INHERITS MILLION!". He displays the tag on the mouse, "To Toodles / With Love / TOM". Satisfied that he has reached the correct apartment, he enters the building.

Tom knocks on the room's door and a black housemaid (presumably Mammy Two Shoes, in a non-speaking role) takes his hat and lets him in. Tom looks at Toodles, and his eyeballs pop out with love. Tom smiles in Toodles' face and Toodles, instead of painting her nails, paints Tom's teeth. Tom pops Jerry out of the flower bouquet and offers him to his love. He "winds up" Jerry's tail and forces him to prance like an automated wind-up doll, complete with a music box. He then drops a ball onto the table and forces Jerry to dance while rolling on a ball. Jerry grins in an attempt to save face, and Tom then uses his arms as a ramp, which takes Jerry up...and then down into the fishbowl. Tom grabs Jerry out of the bowl, smokes a cigar, and blows the smoke in Jerry's face (rendering him blackfaced) before forcing Jerry to dance like a minstrel on a plate that he is heating with a lighted match below. Eventually, Jerry loses his balance and burns his rear, whereupon Tom grabs the mouse and holds him out. Within a couple seconds, Tom substitutes himself for Jerry and makes a move to kiss Toodles. Tom is sitting on Jerry now, but Jerry escapes and closes the ashtray on Tom's tail. Tom accidentally screams into his girl's face and makes an innocent laugh.

Jerry escapes to the window ledge and spies Butch down below in a dustbin in a nearby alley, singing Over the Rainbow. Jerry folds the "KITTEN INHERITS MILLION!" article into a paper aeroplane, which lands directly in Butch's trash can. After peeking out of his can, he spots the article and kisses it, burning it into a black heart. Jerry indicates where the lady cat is, and Butch catapults himself into the room where Tom is kissing Toodles, and ends up kissing Toodles himself.

A furious Tom then takes off his glove and slaps Butch in the face. Butch retaliates, and the slap sends Tom headfirst into a goldfish bowl; the goldfish swims through Tom's head. An incensed Tom pulls the cord on the flagpole and ties it to Butch's tail. Butch's smile is left hanging in the air before it joins the cat, tied up next to the pole.

Toodles is now feeding Tom chocolates, and Butch emerges from behind the sofa and drops a bowling ball on Tom's head, sending him crashing through the sofa, where he emerges, his head caught up in the springs. While Butch is kissing Toodles up her arm, Tom sets a mousetrap, which promptly snaps shut on Butch's lips. Butch, upon discovering the other cat, chases after Tom, and soon gets two doors closed on both sides of him by Tom. Butch pops out and chases Tom to-and-fro past the sofa, Tom periodically taking kissing breaks. Eventually, Butch drops Toodles into his lap, and instead of kissing Toodles, Tom kisses Butch. Before they can throttle each other, they spot Jerry kissing Toodles, and dash after the mouse, who hides in a wall grate. Both cats turn up and guard both sides of the grate. Jerry, inside the wall, ties the two cats' tails together and tugs on Tom's tail. Tom tugs at his tail, pulling Butch into the wall. Butch tugs at his tail, pulling Tom right into the wall, then Butch starts running, which pulls Tom into and through the wall, and comes popping out right next to Butch. When Tom and Butch manage to untie their tails, they search desperately for Toodles, only to see a car driving off, with Jerry kissing Toodles in the back.

[edit] Censorship

[edit] DVD

  • This cartoon can be found uncut but not digitally remastered on the European Warner Bros. PAL DVD set "Tom and Jerry - The Classic Collection " Vol. 03. The Classic Collection is available in the UK (6 double-sided or 12 single layer) and Germany (12 single DVDs).

[edit] Trivia