The Alley Cat

Not to be confused with the Fender Bender 500 vehicle, the Alley Cat.

The Alley Cat
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	July 5, 1941
Run time	9:32
Starring	Harry E. Lang William Hanna Sara Berner
Producer(s)	Fred Quimby
Music composed by	Scott Bradley (uncredited)
Director(s)	Hugh Harman
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The Alley Cat is an animated theatrical short that was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on July 5, 1941. It was produced by Fred Quimby, and directed by Hugh Harman.

An alley cat tries to woo a prissy penthouse cat, who lives on top of an aparment with her butler servant.

Memorable quotes

Butler: Dinner is served, m'lady. (clears throat) Will there be any service, m'lady?
Lady Cat: No...

Tom: Boy, oh boy! Hiya, baby!

Butler: Rover! Rover! Wake up, Rover! I say "Wake up!" Rover! Cats!
Rover: Cats... CATS?!

Tom: Tough, are ya? Scram! (hisses)

Lady Cat: Aww, come up and see me sometime...

Tom: Well, what's cookin', sister?

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Butler	Unavailable
Lady Cat/Toodles Galore	Sara Berner Harry E. Long
Tom/Butch	Harry E. Long William Hanna
Rover	Billy Beltcher

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Toodles' residence

Objects

• None

Vehicles

• None

Music

The score was composed by Scott Bradley.

Behind the scenes

• The two characters, 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.
• Butch's speech sounds a lot more screechy than what he sounds like in Tom and Jerry. This was likely due to making the cat sound more realistic, but in doing so, Butch sounds a lot like Quacker and Yakky Doodle.
• Tom's name is not mentioned in the film, but is used for his character model sheet.
• The Lady Cat's line, "Come up and see me sometime", is a quote attributed to actress Mae West.

Errors

• The Lady Cat's voice changes to a screechy tone when she says, "Come up and see me sometime."