Jerry Mouse
Jerry is a fictional character and one of the title characters (the first being Tom) in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown house mouse, who first appeared as a mouse named Jinx in the 1940 MGM animated short Puss Gets the Boot. Hanna gave the mouse's original name as "Jinx", while Barbera claimed the mouse went unnamed in his first appearance.
History
Tom and Jerry cartoons
The name "Jerry" was chosen by MGM animator John Carr, who submitted "Tom and Jerry" as potential names for the duo after an important Loews Inc. distributor in Texas asked for follow-ups to Puss Gets the Boot. While the idea of a cat-and-mouse duo was considered shopworn by the 1940s, Hanna and Barbera decided to expand upon the standard expected hunter/prey relationship. Their Jerry Mouse, an "incurable scene stealer", served more or less as the protagonist of most of the films; instead of being a "cowering victim" of his pursuer, Tom, he took delight in besting, and often torturing, his antagonist (though sometimes, Tom is just following orders or is even just minding his own business and is antagonized by Jerry). Hanna and Barbera considered Tom and Jerry "the best of enemies", whose rivalry hid an unspoken amount of mutual respect.
'Jerry Mouse' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Actors: Henry Armetta (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Harry Barris (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), Steve Brodie (actor), James Burke (actor), Alex Callam (actor), John Cannon (actor), James Carlisle (actor), Wally Cassell (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Douglas Cowan (actor), Henry H. Daniels Jr. (actor), Leon Ames (actor),
Plot: Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, on liberty in Los Angeles, is the setting for this movie musical.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, admiral, alarm-clock, animated-sequence, anthropomorphic-animal, aspiring-actress, audition, aunt-nephew-relationship, balconyGenres: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: On waves of song . . . laughter and romance ! Two love-lost sailors on a four-day leave of fun and frivolity ! On waves of song, laughter and romance! It's a 21-Gun Musical Salute in Technicolor!
Quotes:
Clarence Doolittle: What makes the sunset? What makes the moon rise? Is it my love for you?Joseph Brady: 1, 2, 3, 4.::Jerry Mouse: 1, 2, 3, 4.::Joseph Brady: 1, 2, 3.::Jerry Mouse: 1, 2, 3.::Joseph Brady: La-la-la-la-la-la.::Jerry Mouse: La-la-la-la-la-la.::Joseph Brady: You see.::Jerry Mouse: It's easy.
Jerry Mouse: Look at me, I'm dancing.
Clarence Doolittle: She begged me, true?::Joseph Brady: True, true!::Clarence Doolittle: She pleaded.::Joseph Brady: Got down on her bended knees.
Clarence Doolittle: I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast.
Joseph Brady: Lola, baby... Forgotten you? Aw, honey, with the picture of you I've got in my mind, why even across the phone I can see every...
Susan Abbott: From the heart of a lonely poet, came a song for the girl he adored. 'Tho she tried very hard not to show it, she was terribly, terribly bored.
[at Donald's school]::Donald Martin: [to Joe] Tell us how you got your medal.::Joseph Brady: Alright, I'll tell you how I got my medal. Now close your eyes... and try to think of the most beautiful place you've ever with greenest grass and the singingest birds and the shiningest sun.::[Cut to Donald's thoughts]::Joseph Brady: Can you see it?::Kids: Yeah!::Joseph Brady: Good! Now imagine me walking along, happy as a lark. Can you see me?::Kids: Yeah!::Joseph Brady: Good! Of course, back then in the navy we wore white suits with blue stripes and little white hat with a little red ball on top. Oh, I was so happy I ran and leaped and played, just for the fun of it! My, it felt good! Oh, it was such a wonderful, wonderful day! When all of a sudden I stepped into a big hole and fell, right to the bottom of it! I seemed to be in a long tunnel. 'Way ahead I could see light, so I started towards. At the end I found myself in a strange land! It looked... well, it looked just like page out of story books. And everything was hushed and still, like your room at night after you've gone to sleep.
Clarence Doolittle: You saved my life, so you owe me something.::Joseph Brady: Oh, it was I who saved your life, so now I owe *you* something! Hey look, have you gone crazy?::Clarence Doolittle: Look, I didn't ask you to save my life, but you did. So now I feel you are responsible for me.::Joseph Brady: Well I don't!::Clarence Doolittle: Well, what's the good of having a life saved when you can't have any fun with it?
Susan Abbott: [sings] Jealousy, you constantly torture me / I sometimes wonder that this spell I'm under / Can only be a melody for I know no one but me has won your heart.
The Zoot Cat (1944)
Actors: William Hanna (actor), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Fred Quimby (producer), Scott Bradley (composer), Joseph Barbera (director), William Hanna (director),
Plot: Tom's advances on a young jive-talking girl cat get nowhere; nowhere, that is, until Tom gets a zoot suit. Armed with his miles of fabric and a new cool lingo, Tom still has to deal with the tricks of his nemesis, Jerry. Solid, Jackson!
Keywords: banana-peel, cat-versus-mouse, hotfoot, shrunken-clothing, surrealism, toots, unaware-one-is-burning, zoot-suitGenres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Short,
Quotes:
Bit Part: [on the radio] Boy are you corny! How many times have you been told that? How many girls have said, "No, Horace, I can only be a sister to you." Get your boots laced, buddy. Get hep to the jive. Step in and see Smilin' Sam, the Zoot Suit Man. Step out with a zoot suit, with a drape shape and a reet pleat. Wear an ankle-length jacket, with three-foot shoulders. Pants that begin at the chin, zoom to a fifty-four inch knee, then fade, softly, to a three-inch Victory cuff. Get hep, get one, get lost, in a new, zoot uh-suit.Tom Cat: [Imitating Charles Boyer] Ah, I love you. When I'm with you, I am what you call, uh, a hep cat. I am hip to the jive. I'm in the groove, darling.::Toots: Now you're REALLY sendin' me, Jackson.::Tom Cat: Ah, you set my soul on fire. It is not just a little, uh, spark. It is a flame; a big roaring flame. Ah, I can feel it now. It is burning... burning... burning... hey. Something is burning around here !
Toots: Boy, are you corny! You act like a square at the fair, a goon from Saskatoon. You come on like a broken arm. You're a sad apple, a long hair, a corn husker. In other words, you don't send me. So bail out, brother. Get lost... and here's your rat, cat.
Street Dreams
I won't build my life on your demands 'cause
I get my truths from a higher command
I've put my dreams through a tougher test and
I'm pullin' mind from outta this mess
I've got street dreams together with plans
I've got street dreams chaotic new stands
I've got street dreams ultra magic mess
I've got street dreams you're gonna detest
I don't like the way the world's progressin'
God's on fire screamin' depressin'...yeah!
I want a future that's not in the past
I don't want your recycled trash... kill it!
[Chorus]
Mr. Bourgeois we're lookin' for you
We want our lives, we ain't got two
We're takin' the keys to the locked doors
The future is for us the past is yours
Give us feelings give us more than you've got
Give us everything, everything we want:
[Chorus]
Build me a world with nothing restrained
Give me a hand I guess I can't be blamed
If there's a drop to be bled then it's for me
Yeah! Everything / everyone for free!