Mammy Two Shoes
Character in the Tom & Jerry series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mammy Two Shoes is a fictional character in MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons. She is a middle-aged African American woman who is the housemaid in the house which Tom and Jerry reside. But the fact that she has her own bedroom in the short Sleepy-Time Tom (1951) raises the possibility of her being the owner of the house, as no other human is present in the house in shorts she appears. She would scold and discipline Tom whenever she believed he was misbehaving; Jerry would sometimes be the cause of Tom's getting in trouble.
Mammy Two Shoes | |
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Tom and Jerry (MGM) character | |
First appearance | Puss Gets the Boot (1940) |
Last appearance | Push-Button Kitty (1952) |
Created by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Voiced by | Lillian Randolph (original) June Foray (1960s redubbed shorts) Thea Vidale (1990s redubbed shorts) |
In-universe information | |
Nickname | Dinah (1940s Tom and Jerry comics) |
Family | Tom (pet) |
As a partially-seen character, her head was rarely seen, except in a few cartoons including Part Time Pal (1947), A Mouse in the House (1947), Mouse Cleaning (1948), and Saturday Evening Puss (1950).
Mammy appeared in 19 cartoons, from Puss Gets the Boot (1940) to Push-Button Kitty (1952). Her appearances have often been edited out, dubbed, or re-animated in later television showings, since her character is an archetype now usually considered racist.[1] Her creation points to the ubiquity of the "mammy" stereotype in American popular culture,[2] and the character was removed from the series after 1953 due to protests from the NAACP.[3]