Gay Purr-ee (1962) on Netflix
Approved19621h 25mAnimationComedyFamilyMusical
Mewsette, a farm cat in Provence, tires of country life and heads for Paris, where a slick con-cat, Meowrice, takes advantage of her. Jaune Tom and Robespierre chase after her.
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- IMDb6.7/102,439 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes60%
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Plot summary
Mewsette, a beautiful white cat, and Jaune Tom, a shy mouser, live on a farm in Provence and are in love. Mewsette grows tired of country ways and of Jaune Tom's plain manners. The human Jeanette tells her how glamorous and refined Paris is, so Mewsette runs off to the city by herself. A smooth con-cat named Meowrice spots her country innocence and hands her over to Madame Henrietta Reubens-Chatte, a cat who promises to turn her into an elegant Parisian lady. Jaune Tom leaves the farm with his friend Robespierre, and the pair reach Paris and start looking for Mewsette.
Cast
- Bill Coleas Singing Hench Cat(uncredited)
- France Lachapelleas Various (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gay Purr-ee (1962)
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- When Warner Bros. became distributor of Gay Purr-ee and learned that Chuck Jones had worked on it, the studio debated his exclusivity agreement and fired him in July 1962, laying off his staff once they finished their next cartoon. A year after Warner Bros. Cartoons closed, Jones hired that old unit for his first independent studio, Sib Tower 12 Productions.
- Per the DVD production notes, it was Judy Garland who suggested that Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, her songwriters on The Wizard of Oz, write and compose the songs for Gay Purr-ee.
- Gay Purr-ee was the first animated feature film to be given a theatrical release by Warner Bros., and it was the second and final animated film made by the studio UPA.
- Gay Purr-ee, in which Judy Garland voiced the cat Mewsette and Robert Goulet her love interest Jaune Tom, was Garland's only animated-film role and Goulet's first feature film.
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