Casanova Cat

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Casanova Cat
Tom and Jerry series
The title card of Casanova Cat
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Story by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Animation by	Irven Spence Ray Patterson Ed Barge Kenneth Muse
Music by	Scott Bradley
Produced by	Fred Quimby
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	January 6, 1951
Format	Technicolor, 7 min 04 secs
Language	English
Preceded by	Cue Ball Cat
Followed by	Jerry and the Goldfish

Casanova Cat is a 1951 cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was created in 1950 and released in early 1951.

[edit] Plot

The Casanova Cat attempts to woo Toodles by humiliating Jerry.

Tom is taking a fuming Jerry to the apartment of a rich feline that he intends to woo. On arriving at Toodles' apartment. Tom knocks on the door and a black housemaid (presumably Mammy Two Shoes (in a non-speaking role) lets him in. Tom looks at Toodles, and his eyeballs pop out with love. Tom presents to her Jerry as a gift, forcing Jerry to dance while rolling on a ball. He also smokes a cigar and blows the smoke in Jerry's face, rendering him blackfaced, before forcing Jerry to dance like a minstrel on a plate that he is heating with a lighted match below. Jerry eventually escapes to the window ledge and spies Butch down below in a dustbin in a nearby alley, singing Over the Rainbow. Jerry folds a newspaper article detailing the rich feline's fortune into a paper aeroplane, which lands directly in Butch's trash can. Jerry indicates where the lady cat is, and Butch catapults himself into the room where Tom is kissing Toodles, and ends up kissing Toodles himself. A furious Tom then takes off his glove and slaps Butch in the face. Butch retaliates, and the slap sends Tom headfirst into a goldfish bowl. Tom gets his revenge by tying Butch's tail to a flagpole. Later, while Tom and Toodles are feeding each other chocolates, Butch emerges from behind the sofa and drops a bowling ball on Tom's head, sending him crashing through the sofa, where he emerges, his head caught up in the springs. While Butch is kissing Toodles up her arm, Tom sets a mousetrap, which promptly snaps shut on Butch's lips. Butch chases after Tom, where the two cats constantly slam into doors and walls. Eventually, the two cats are searching for Jerry, at opposite ends of the same wall. Jerry, inside the wall, ties the two cats' tails together and tugs on their tails. Tom tugs at his tail, pulling Butch into the wall. Butch tugs at his tail, pulling Tom right into the wall, then Butch starts running, which pulls Tom into the wall, and comes popping out right next to Butch. When Tom and Butch manage to untie their tails, they search desperately for Toodles, only to see a car driving off, with Jerry kissing Toodles in the back.