Tom and Chérie
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| Tom and Chérie
Tom and Jerry series |
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 The title card of Tom and Chérie |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Story by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Irven Spence Kenneth Muse Lewis Marshall Ed Barge |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | September 9, 1955 |
| Color process | Technicolor, CinemaScope |
| Running time | 6 minutes 46 seconds |
| Preceded by | Designs on Jerry |
| Followed by | Smarty Cat |
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Tom and Chérie is a 1955 Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was the third (of four) cartoons in the Mouseketeer series of cartoons, the first of which, The Two Mouseketeers (1952) won an Academy Award, and the second, Touché, Pussy Cat! (1954) received an Academy Award nomination.
The cartoon's music was composed by Scott Bradley, and the animation was done by Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, and Lewis Marshall, this being Marshall's first Tom and Jerry cartoon for which he received an animation credit (replacing Ray Patterson who had left).
[edit] Plot
Jerry is infatuated with Lilli. From what we know of her (according to her portrait), she is a beautiful and rich French mouse. Jerry and Lilli are exchanging love letters, and Jerry orders Tuffy, as his messenger, to deliver these letters to and fro. However, each time, the unlucky mouse has to get past Tom, through a number of swashbuckling swordfights, and each time, Tuffy ends up more tattered and torn apart than the last. Tuffy attempts to get out of delivering the letters at first, but is informed that "Un mouseketeer est brave" (A mouseketeer is brave) and is punished several times. Eventually, Jerry receives a letter from Lilli, telling him that their love is finished. Heartbroken, Jerry throws away her portrait and tears up the letter. But all is not lost, as Jerry simply replaces her portrait with that of another beautiful, rich, French mouse (Marie) and begins his correspondence with this one. An exasperated Tuffy is forced to deliver this letter, and when forced into another duel with Tom ("En garde!", the only words Tom speaks numerous times throughout the film) the little mouse refuses to fight and continues delivering the letter.
