Thea Vidale
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| Characters played | Miss Banks Mammy Two Shoes |
Thea R. Vidale is an American stand-up comedian and actress.
Roles
Tom and Jerry
- Main article: Tom and Jerry (theatrical shorts)
- Mammy Two Shoes in the Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts (1990s redubs).
...Where's Rodney?
- Miss Banks in the ...Where's Rodney? TV pilot (1990).
Other roles
Behind the scenes
- Mammy Two Shoes, the housemaid in Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts from the 1940s and early 1950s had been portrayed as an African American stereotype, so when the theatrical shorts were aired on television in the 1960s, scenes involving the character were reanimated to that of a white woman and redubbed with actress June Foray, instead. By the 1990s, however, Turner restored the original animation but with a less stereotypical Black voice from Thea Vidale. Consequently, both the Foray and Vidale portrayals are largely forgotten, and it is the original version with Lillian Randolph that prevails, despite its stereotypes. The DVD and Blu-ray Disc's justification of the original edits was that it was better to preserve it as lesson of what not to do than to outright ignore the mistakes of the past, with the former being presented by African American actress Whoopi Goldberg.
- One such redub featuring Vidale from Sleepy-Time Tom is used in the TV poll special TV's All-Time Favorites in 1995.
