The Alley Cat

The Alley Cat is an animated theatrical short. It was released on July 5, 1941 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby, and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

An alley cat tries to woo a prissy penthouse cat.

The two characters (named Tom and the "Lady Cat") were integrated into MGM's Tom and Jerry series (which had just debuted a year earlier), beginning in 1943 (Tom rechristened Butch for Baby Puss) and 1946 (the "Lady Cat" christened as Toodles Galore for Springtime for Thomas), respectively.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Butler
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Toodles Galore
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Sara Berner
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Butch
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Harry E. Long
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Toodles Galore
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Harry E. Long
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Butch
 * style="background-color:#clear"| William Hanna
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rover
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Billy Beltcher
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Butch
 * style="background-color:#clear"| William Hanna
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rover
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Billy Beltcher
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rover
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Billy Beltcher

Locations

 * Toodles's penthouse

Objects

 * None

Vehicles

 * None

Music
The music is composed by Scott Bradley.

Behind the scenes

 * Butch's speech sounds a lot more screechy than what he and Tom and other cats sound like when they talk in Tom and Jerry. This was likely due to make the cat sound more realistic, but in doing so, Butch sounds a lot like Quacker and Yakky Duck.