Friday, 22 April 2022

A Furry Fuhrer

Jerry gets Tom kicked out of the house in The Lonesome Mouse (1943), then goes over to the cat’s basket and draws a Hitler hairstyle and moustache on it. He stops to admire his work.



Jerry then treats the picture like anyone would if it were the real Hitler.



Scott Bradley’s score treats us to “Auch Du Lieber Augustine.”

This is the cartoon with a disembodied voice talking to Jerry. I have no idea who it is (see the helpful comment). Jerry whispers to Tom outside the house; Tom has a dopey voice, like Meathead in the Screwy Squirrel cartoons Tex Avery was making about this time. Inside, Tom shouts a radio catchphrase of 1943—Phil Harris’ “That’s a lu-lu!” That voice is one of the MGM regulars of the period but I can’t be certain who it is.

No animators are credited. That’s not a lu-lu.
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2 comments:

  1. Mark Kausler22 April 2022 at 13:02

    Hi Yowp, This is a Jack Zander scene, and Harry Lang does the "Inner Voice" of Jerry and the "out-loud" voices of Tom and Jerry.

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  2. Anonymous22 February 2023 at 17:28

    Actually this is a George Gordon scene according to a breakdown from Cartoon Research. I think they shifted animators to Ken Muse in the last few frames where Jerry spits at Tom's Basket. It's subtle but the movement is much like Muse.

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