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
Director(s)	Hugh Harman
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The Alley Cat is an animated theatrical short. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) 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.

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

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

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

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Toodles's residence

Objects

• None

Vehicles

• None

Music

The music was composed by Scott Bradley.

Behind the scenes

• Butch's speech sounds a lot more screechy than what he, Tom and other cats sound like when they talk 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.