Love Me, Love My Mouse
Love Me, Love My Mouse | |
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Directed by | Chuck Jones Ben Washam |
Story by | Michael Maltese |
Animation by | Ben Washam Philip Roman Don Towsley Dick Thompson |
Layouts by | Robert Givens |
Backgrounds by | Robert Inman[1] |
Color process | Metrocolor[2][3] |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[2] |
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Running time | 6:14[2] |
Love Me, Love My Mouse is a 1966 Tom and Jerry short produced by Chuck Jones and directed by him and Ben Washam.
Plot[]
Tom, in love with Toots, goes to her house, carrying Jerry in a ring box to woo her. Tom presents Jerry to his love interest, but Jerry pretends to be frightened of Tom and cuddles up with Toots, who instantly sympathizes with him, taking sides with the mouse.
Later, Jerry waves Tom and then aims to gain more sympathy from Toots by framing Tom to jumping into his mouth repeatedly in three times and Toots coming to Jerry's rescue. And later, Tom tells Toots that he wasn't even trying to eat Jerry but she refuses to listen to him and smashes the door with his hand before Jerry laughs with him, causing an angry Tom to grab Jerry and attempts to drop a concrete block on him and flatten him, but mad Toots interferes and causes Tom to drop the block on himself.
The next morning, Toots is putting baby powder on Jerry while a bandaged Tom hobbles to the table. Toots kisses Jerry, but while doing so, she soon finds that in addition to being quite adorable, Jerry is also quite tasty. She suddenly has a change of heart and decides to eat Jerry, now taking sides with Tom, who reacts with joy. Toots blows a kiss to Tom (as though to thank him for giving her Jerry, after all), and prepares to consume the mouse. But Jerry, now seeing that Toots is no longer on his side and deciding that pretending to be frightened of Tom was a bad idea, escapes to the door. The hungry Toots chases Jerry down with a fork, a knife, a napkin tied around her neck, and a wicked grin on her face while Tom limps out and slowly follows her as the cartoon closes.
Voice Cast and Additional Crew[]
- Animation: Ben Washam, Philip Roman, Don Towsley, & Dick Thompson.
- Produced by Chuck Jones[1][3]
- Production Manager: Les Goldman[3]
- Production Supervised by Les Goldman[1]
- Mel Blanc voices Tom and Jerry
- June Foray voices Tom's Girlfriend[3]
- Additional Voices by William Hanna
- Stock Music composed by Scott Bradley
- Additional Music: Eugene Poddany[2][3]
- Design Consultant: Maurice Noble[1][3]
Production notes[]
The title is a pun on the phrase "Love me, love my dog". Love Me, Love My Mouse is the first short animated by Philip Roman, and is one of the few where Tom wins against Jerry.
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Love Me Love My Mouse (1966): Cast". The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Love Me Love My Mouse (1966): Main". The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999) (Second Edition). McFarland & Company Inc. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
External links[]
- 1966 films
- 1966 animated films
- 1966 short films
- 1960s animated short films
- Tom and Jerry short films
- Short films directed by Chuck Jones
- Short films directed by Ben Washam
- Films scored by Eugene Poddany
- 1960s American animated films
- American films
- American animated short films
- Films without speech
- 1966 comedy films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films
- MGM Animation/Visual Arts short films
- Animated films without speech
- Films with screenplays by Michael Maltese