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The Zoot Cat

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The Zoot Cat
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Directed byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Produced byFred Quimby[1][2] (uncredited on original issue)
StarringWilliam Hanna
Jerry Mann
Sara Berner (all uncredited)
Edited byFred McAlpin[2] (uncredited)
Music byScott Bradley
Animation byRay Patterson
Kenneth Muse
Irven Spence
Pete Burness[1][2]
Assisted by:
Tony Ligerra
Barney Posner[3]
(both uncredited)
Layouts byHarvey Eisenberg[2] (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer[1][2]
Release dates
  • January 27, 1944 (1944-01-27) (Premiere)
  • February 10, 1944 (1944-02-10) (United States)
Running time
7:03[1]
LanguageEnglish

The Zoot Cat is a 1944 American Technicolor one-reel animated short and is the 13th Tom and Jerry short.[4] It was released to theatres on February 10, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[5]

Plot

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Tom prepares a Valentine's Day surprise for Toots, complete with a gift box containing a note from Jerry. Despite his efforts to impress her with music, dance, Toots rejects Tom's advances, calling him, "corny", and leaving him humiliated.

After Tom hears from Toots' radio of the latest style, he dons a homemade zoot suit to impress her. Jerry, seizing the opportunity, teases Tom relentlessly, eventually outsmarting him and stealing the spotlight in the stylish suit.

Voice cast

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Note: All voice actors are uncredited

Availability

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VHS
  • Tom & Jerry Cartoon Festival Featuring Academy Award Winner Johann Mouse (1985)[7]
  • Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Classics II (1990)[8]
  • Tom and Jerry's Greatest Chases, Vol. 1 (2000)
LaserDisc
  • The Art of Tom & Jerry: Volume 1, Side 2 (1993)[9][10]
DVD
Blu-ray
iTunes
  • Tom and Jerry Vol. 1[12]
Streaming
  • Boomerang App

Censorship

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Because of the United Kingdom's ban of TV characters smoking, Jerry smoking a cigar and a cigarette and Jerry putting the cigarette on Tom's nose is faded out.[13]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "The Zoot Cat (1944)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved February 7, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900–1999) (Second ed.). McFarland & Company Inc. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
  3. 1 2 Baxter, Devon (December 6, 2017). "Tom & Jerry in "The Zoot Cat" (1944)". Cartoon Research. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  4. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  5. ↑ "The Zoot Cat - Earliest Known Date". The Atlanta Constitution. February 9, 1944. p. 4. Retrieved November 8, 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices: of the Golden Age, 1930-1970 - Volume Two: Selected Filmographies with Voice Credits. Orlando: BearManor Media. pp. 127–128. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5. Retrieved November 21, 2025.
  7. ↑ Tom & Jerry cartoon festival, featuring "Johann Mouse". OCLC 12572234.
  8. ↑ "..:: The Tom and Jerry Online :: An Unofficial Site : TOM AND JERRY DVD/VHS::." www.tomandjerryonline.com. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  9. ↑ "LaserDisc Database – Art of Tom & Jerry, The: Volume I [ML102682]". www.lddb.com. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  10. ↑ Simon, Ben (July 14, 2003). "The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One – Animated Views". Animated Views. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
  11. 1 2 Milligan, Mercedes (September 9, 2025). "Iconic Cartoon Duo 'Tom and Jerry' Coming to 'Golden Era Anthology' Set in December". Animation Magazine. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Tom and Jerry, Vol. 1". iTunes. September 25, 1965. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Films in Review » The Zoot Cat". filmsinreview.lib.byu.edu. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
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