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{{Character
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|species = Human
 
|species = Human
 
|gender = Female
 
|gender = Female
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|aka = Dinah (1940s ''Tom and Jerry'' comics)<br>Cook <small>(''Tom and Jerry'' books)</small>
|voiced by = [[wikipedia:Lillian Randolph|Lillian Randolph]] (original)<br>[[Wikipedia:Thea Vidale|Thea Vidale]] (dubbed versions)<br>[[wikipedia:Nicole Oliver|Nicole Oliver]] (Tom and Jerry Tales)
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|voiced by = [[wikipedia:Lillian Randolph|Lillian Randolph]] (original)<br>[[Wikipedia:Thea Vidale|Thea Vidale]] (dubbed versions)
 
|friends = [[Tom Cat|Tom]] (sometimes), [[Lightning Cat|Lightning]] (formerly)
 
|friends = [[Tom Cat|Tom]] (sometimes), [[Lightning Cat|Lightning]] (formerly)
 
|enemies = [[Jerry Mouse|Jerry]], [[Tom Cat|Tom]] (sometimes), [[Butch]] (sometimes), [[Lightning Cat|Lightning]] (in the end), [[Topsy Cat|Topsy]] (in the end)
 
|enemies = [[Jerry Mouse|Jerry]], [[Tom Cat|Tom]] (sometimes), [[Butch]] (sometimes), [[Lightning Cat|Lightning]] (in the end), [[Topsy Cat|Topsy]] (in the end)
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|family = [[Tom Cat]] (pet)
 
|relatives = Aunt Harriet (mentioned, not heard or seen in The Million Dollar Cat).
 
|relatives = Aunt Harriet (mentioned, not heard or seen in The Million Dollar Cat).
|skin colour = Black
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|skin colour = Brown
|loses = None
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|Sex = Female
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|First appearance = [[Puss Gets the Boot]]
|debut appearance = [[Puss Gets the Boot]]|Sex = Female}}'''Mammy Two Shoes''' (also known as '''Mammy''', '''Mammy Two-Shoes''', '''Mrs. Two Shoes''' in ''[[Tom and Jerry Tales]]'' or '''Dinah''' in the 1940 Tom and Jerry comics), is a recurring character in MGM's ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons. She is a heavy-set, middle-aged African-American woman who often has to deal with the mayhem generated by the lead characters, but whether she is the owner of the home or merely the house-keeper is never really made clear.
 
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|Latest appearance = [[Push-Button Kitty]]
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}}
 
'''Mammy Two Shoes''' (also known as '''Mammy''', '''Mammy Two-Shoes''', or '''Dinah''' in the 1940s Tom and Jerry comics) is a recurring character who appeared in 19 of MGM's ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoons. She is a heavy-set, middle-aged African-American woman who often has to deal with the mayhem generated by the lead characters, but whether she is the owner of the home or merely the house-keeper is never really made clear. She is based on the "Mammy" archetype that was prevalent throughout the U.S. in the 19th and early 20th century.
   
As a partially-seen character, she was famous for never showing her head and face (although it is briefly visible in [[Saturday Evening Puss]] and [[Part Time Pal]]). Mammy's appearances have often been edited out, dubbed, or re-animated as a slim white woman in later television showings, since her character is a mammy archetype now often regarded as racist. It was later revealed that her character was greatly inspired by Oscar-winning African-American actress and singer Hattie McDaniel, best known for playing "Mammy" in MGM and David O. Selznick's 1939 film.
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As a partially-seen character, she was famous for never showing her head and face (although it is briefly visible in [[Saturday Evening Puss]] and [[Part Time Pal]]). Mammy's appearances have often been edited out, dubbed, or re-animated as a slim white woman in television broadcasts, since her character is a mammy archetype now often regarded as racist.
   
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== Bio ==
A character very similar to Mammy Two Shoes had earlier been portrayed in the Disney'' Silly Symphonies'' shorts ''Three Orphan Kittens'' and ''More Kittens'', as well as the Pluto short Pantry Pirate and the Figaro short ''Figaro and Cleo''. A similar character ''Petunia the Mammy'' actually shows her face which (of course) resembles blackface in the ''Little Audrey'' cartoon series.
 
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== Personality ==
   
 
==Appearance==
 
==Appearance==
With dark brown skin (later changed to an ivory-colored skin tone) she is distinguished by her usual, sleeveless dress with frills in the shoulders, a white apron with frills in the trim, old, yellow socks (often seen with some kind of suspender holding it up) and red slippers. The color of her attire often changes, but the pieces remain virtually the same. These colors are yellow, orange, green, blue and red. She is usually seen holding a broom.
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With dark brown skin (later changed to an ivory-colored skin tone) she is distinguished by her usual, sleeveless dress with frills in the shoulders, a white apron with frills in the trim, old, yellow socks (often seen with some kind of suspender holding it up), and red slippers. The color of her attire often changes, but the pieces remain virtually the same. These colors are yellow, orange, green, blue, and red. She is usually seen holding a broom.
   
 
She is of mid-stature with dark skin, slightly rotund with a large bust and thick hands.
 
She is of mid-stature with dark skin, slightly rotund with a large bust and thick hands.
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==Theatrical ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons==
 
==Theatrical ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons==
 
[[File:PDVD_002-1-.jpg|thumb|Mammy Two Shoes, in a scene from '''Saturday Evening Puss'''.]]
 
[[File:PDVD_002-1-.jpg|thumb|Mammy Two Shoes, in a scene from '''Saturday Evening Puss'''.]]
   
Mammy first appeared in [[Puss Gets the Boot]], the first Tom and Jerry cartoon (except Tom was called "Jasper"). She always referred to Tom as his given name Thomas and almost always used "is" in conjunction with a pronoun ("is you" and "I is"). The character went on to make many appearances through 1952's [[Push-Button Kitty]]. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera initially portrayed Mammy as the maid of the house, with the real owners unknown to us. Later, Hanna and Barbera seemed to suggest, through dialogue and occasional behavior, that the house was Mammy's own.
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Mammy first appeared in [[Puss Gets the Boot]], the first Tom and Jerry cartoon (except Tom was called "Jasper"). She always referred to Tom as his given name Thomas and almost always used "is" in conjunction with a pronoun ("is you" and "I is"). The character went on to make many appearances through 1952's [[Push-Button Kitty]]. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera initially portrayed Mammy as the maid of the house, with the real owners unknown to the viewers. Later, Hanna and Barbera seemed to suggest, through dialogue and occasional behavior, that the house was Mammy's own.
   
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==Censorship, discontinuation, and callbacks==
Mammy was originally voiced by well-known African-American voice actress Lillian Randolph. In the 1960s, the MGM animation cartoon, by then under the supervision of Chuck Jones, created censored versions of the ''Tom & Jerry'' cartoons featuring Mammy for television. These versions used rotoscoping techniques to replace Mammy on-screen with a thin white woman, and the voice on the soundtracks was replaced by an Irish-accented voice performed by white actress June Foray. The original versions of the cartoons were reinstated when Turner Broadcasting acquired ownership of the ''Tom & Jerry'' property. But in 1992, the cartoons featuring Mammy were edited again; this time, to replace Lillian Randolph's voice with that of Thea Vidale, whose dialogue was redone to remove the Mammy character's use of potentially offensive dialect. These versions of the cartoons are aired to this day on Turner's Cartoon Network-related cable channels, and have turned up on DVD as well. However, some European TV showings of these cartoons, especially the UK, retain Randolph's original voice. The Region 2 ''Complete Collectors Edition'' DVD box set has Vidale's voice on the first DVD and Randolph in a number of the episodes after that (such as ''A Mouse in the House'' and ''Mouse Cleaning''). This continued to this day after the death of Lillian Randolph in 1980.
 
 
[[File:Drgterr4.jpg|thumb|Mammy Two Shoes attacking Tom.]]
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Director [[Gene Deitch]] stated that the "retiring" of Mammy's character was one of the changes that he felt he needed to make for the 13 shorts produced by [[Rembrandt Films]].<ref>[https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/tom-jerry-the-gene-deitch-collection/ "Tom & Jerry – The Gene Deitch Collection" (Paragraph 7) - Gene Deitch (cartoonresearch.com)]</ref>
   
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[[MGM Animation/Visual Arts]], under the supervision of [[Chuck Jones]], created replacement characters for Mammy in the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons featuring her for television. These versions used rotoscoping techniques to replace Mammy on-screen with either a stocky white woman (in most shorts) or a thin white woman (in ''Saturday Evening Puss''); Randolph's voice on the soundtracks was replaced by an Irish-accented (or generic young adult in ''Puss'') voice performed by June Foray.<ref>[http://mammytwoshoes.tripod.com/history.html A History of Mammy Twoshoes]</ref>
==Replacement characters for Mammy==
 
[[File:Drgterr4.jpg|thumb|The American version of Mammy Two Shoes.]]
 
From 1954's ''[[Pet Peeve]]'', Mammy disappeared from ''Tom and Jerry''; the owners of the animals' house became a young, white, middle-class couple named Joan and George, and starting with 1955's ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Sorceress The Flying Sorceress]'', the audience was able to see these owners' heads.
 
   
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Three years after [[Turner Entertainment]] acquired ''Tom & Jerry'' from MGM, the cartoons featuring Mammy were re-recorded to remove Mammy Two Shoes' use of potentially offensive dialect. Lillian Randolph's voice was dubbed over by Thea Vidale. The re-recorded versions of the cartoons would air on Turner's [[Cartoon Network]]-related cable channels, and have at times turned up on DVD. However, some European TV showings of these cartoons, especially the UK, as well as the US DVD release of ''[[Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection]]'', ''[[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection]]'', and ''[[Tom and Jerry: The Deluxe Anniversary Collection]]'' and the US DVD and Blu-ray releases of ''[[Tom and Jerry Golden Collection]]'', retain Randolph's original voice. The Region 2 ''Complete Collectors Edition'' DVD boxset has Vidale's voice on the first DVD and Randolph in a number of the episodes after that (such as ''[[A Mouse in the House]]'' and ''[[Mouse Cleaning]]'').
In 1961, when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Snyder Rembrandt Films] began producing ''Tom and Jerry'' shorts, the owner of the house became a corpulent white man. The character was designed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Deitch Gene Deitch], who recycled the design from his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrytoons Terrytoons] character Clint Clobber.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammy_Two_Shoes#cite_note-1 [2]]</sup> This new owner, whose face would turn bright red, and often derived great glee in doing so, was more graphically brutal in punishing Tom's mistakes as compared to Mammy Two Shoes, such as beating and thrashing Tom repeatedly, searing his face with a grill and forcing Tom to drink an entire carbonated beverage. "Clobber" (for want of a better name) was introduced in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Outing Down and Outing]'' as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman fisherman] who owned Tom as well as their house. "Clobber" later appeared in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Steaks High Steaks]'' as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef chef], and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_Safari Sorry Safari]'' as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter hunter] before being dropped.
 
   
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A white woman named "[[Mrs. Two Shoes]]" appeared in some episodes of ''[[Tom and Jerry Tales]]''. She had most aspects of Mammy Two Shoes' personality, a similar look, and a similar name.
Later, Tom's owner varied, with a housewife similar to the re-edited Mammy appearing in the later Deitch short ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddies_Thicker_Than_Water Buddies Thicker Than Water]'' and the direct-to-DVD film ''[[Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry]]''.
 
   
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== Appearances==
==''Tom and Jerry Tales'' and Mammy's modern return==
 
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
In the modern ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Tales Tom and Jerry Tales]'' a redesigned Mammy has appeared, debuting in the short ''[[Ho Ho Horrors]]'' and turning up again later on. Though keeping her buxom, overweight build, tough personality, Southern accent and tendency to call Tom "Thomas," Mammy's skin tone has changed to ivory, presumably to avoid any possible controversy. Several photos on a mantle in ''Ho Ho Horrors'' also imply that Mammy now has a family (a man and a boy, also shown only as legs and partial torsos), though they have yet to appear in actual animation. In the short ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Tom Power Tom]'' the story casts Mammy as a female superhero called Power Gal, though it's only for this one cartoon.
 
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|-
 
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! No. !! Title !! Released
In the new shorts, the now-Caucasian Mammy is explicitly called "Mrs. Two-Shoes".
 
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==Featured shorts==
 
 
|''[[Puss Gets the Boot]]''
===Tom and Jerry===
 
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|February 10, 1940
*[[Puss Gets the Boot|''Puss Gets the Boot'']] (1940)
 
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|-
*[[The Midnight Snack|''The Midnight Snack'']] (1941)
 
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|2
*[[Fraidy Cat|''Fraidy Cat'']] (cameo) (1942)
 
 
|''[[The Midnight Snack]]''
*[[Dog Trouble|''Dog Trouble'']] (cameo) (1942)
 
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|July 19, 1941
*[[Puss N' Toots|''Puss N' Toots'']] (cameo) (1942)
 
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|-
*[[The Lonesome Mouse|''The Lonesome Mouse'']] (1943)
 
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|4
*[[The Mouse Comes to Dinner|''The Mouse Comes to Dinner'']] (cameo) (1945)
 
 
|''[[Fraidy Cat]]''
*[[Part Time Pal|''Part Time Pal'']] (1947)
 
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|January 17, 1942
*[[A Mouse in the House|''A Mouse&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;House'']] (1947)
 
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|-
*[[Old Rockin' Chair Tom|''Old Rockin' Chair Tom'']] (1948)
 
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|5
*[[Mouse Cleaning|''Mouse Cleaning'']] (1948)
 
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|''[[Dog Trouble]]''
*[[Polka-Dot Puss|''Polka-Dot Puss'']] (1949) (cameo)
 
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|April 18, 1942
*[[The Little Orphan|''The Little Orphan'']] (cameo) (1949)
 
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|-
*[[Saturday Evening Puss|''Saturday Evening Puss'']] (1950)
 
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|6
*[[The Framed Cat|''The Framed&nbsp;Cat'']] (cameo) (1950)
 
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|''[[Puss N' Toots]]''
*[[Casanova Cat|''Casanova Cat'']] (cameo) (1951)
 
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|May 30, 1942
*[[Sleepy-Time Tom|''Sleepy-Time Tom'']] (1951)
 
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|-
*[[Nit-Witty Kitty|''Nit-Witty Kitty'']] (1951)
 
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|10
*[[Triplet Trouble|''Triplet Trouble'']] (1952)
 
*''[[Push-Button Kitty]] ''(1952)
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|''[[The Lonesome Mouse]]''
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|May 22, 1943
 
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|-
===''Tom and Jerry Tales'' (as Mrs. Two Shoes)===
 
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|18
*[[Prehisterics|''Prehisterics'']]
 
*''[[Ho Ho Horrors]]'' (cameo)
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|''[[The Mouse Comes to Dinner]]''
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|May 5, 1945
*[[Tin Cat of Tomorrow|''Tin Cat of Tomorrow'']]
 
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|-
*[[Power Tom|''Power Tom'']]
 
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|28
*[[Cat Show Catastrophe|''Cat Show Catastrophe'']] (cameo)
 
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|''[[Part Time Pal]]''
*[[Adventures in Penguin Sitting|''Adventures in Penguin Sitting'']]
 
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|March 15, 1947
*[[Invasion of the Body Slammers|''Invasion of the Body Slammers'']] (cameo)
 
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|-
*[[Summer Squashing|''Summer Squashing'']]
 
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|32
*[[Little Big Mouse|''Little Big Mouse'']]
 
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|''[[A Mouse in the House]]''
*[[You're Lion|''You're Lion'']]
 
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|August 30, 1947
*''[[Monkey Chow]]''
 
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|-
*''[[Game of Mouse & Cat]]'' (final appearance)
 
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|36
*''[[The Cat Whisperer]]''
 
 
|''[[Old Rockin' Chair Tom]]''
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|September 18, 1948
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|-
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|38
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|''[[Mouse Cleaning]]''
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|December 11, 1948
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|-
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|39
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|''[[Polka-Dot Puss]]''
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|February 26, 1949
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|-
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|40
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|''[[The Little Orphan]]''
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|April 30, 1949
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|-
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|48
 
|''[[Saturday Evening Puss]]''
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|January 14, 1950
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|-
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|53
 
|''[[The Framed Cat]]''
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|October 21, 1950
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|-
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|58
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|''[[Sleepy-Time Tom]]''
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|May 26, 1951
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|-
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|61
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|''[[Nit-Witty Kitty]]''
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|October 6, 1951
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|-
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|67
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|''[[Triplet Trouble]]''
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|April 19, 1952
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|-
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|70
 
|''[[Push-Button Kitty]]''
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|September 6, 1952<ref>[http://www2.boxoffice.com/the_vault/issue_page?issue_id=1952-10-4&page_no=173#page_start Shorts Chart - BoxOffice (1952)]</ref>
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|}
   
 
==Major appearances==
 
==Major appearances==
*''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonesome_Mouse The Lonesome Mouse]'' - She's tricked by Tom's and [[Jerry]]'s truce.
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*''The Lonesome Mouse'' - She's tricked by Tom's and [[Jerry]]'s truce.
*''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_Time_Pal Part Time Pal] - ''She is tormented by a drunk [[Tom]].
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*''Part Time Pal'' - She is tormented by a drunk [[Tom]].
*''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Rockin%27_Chair_Tom Old Rockin' Chair Tom]'' - Mammy's longest onscreen appearance. She takes a cat named [[Lightning Cat|Lightning]].
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*''Old Rockin' Chair Tom'' - Mammy's longest onscreen appearance. She takes a cat named [[Lightning Cat|Lightning]].
*''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy-Time_Tom Sleepy-Time Tom]'' - She keeps an eye on Tom if he's sleeping on the job.
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*''Sleepy-Time Tom'' - She keeps an eye on Tom if he's sleeping on the job.
*''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-Button_Kitty Push-Button Kitty]'' - She orders a robocat called [[Mechano]].
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*''Push-Button Kitty'' - She orders a robocat called [[Mechano]].
*''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Cat_of_Tomorrow Tin Cat of Tomorrow]'' - She orders a robocat called [[Verminator 7000]].
 
*''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Tom Power Tom]'' - She disguises herself as Power Gal to save Tom and Jerry from [[Butch]], Lightning and Topsy in a robbery.
 
 
==Voice actresses of Mammy Two Shoes==
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Randolph Lillian Randolph]: 1940 - 1952
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thea_Vidale Thea Vidale]: (Cartoon Network dubbed versions; uncredited)
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Foray June Foray]: Mammy as a thin white young woman, first dubbed versions with a similar white Mammy
 
*[[wikipedia:Nicole Oliver|Nicole Oliver]]: ''[[Tom and Jerry Tales]]''
 
   
 
==Gags==
 
==Gags==
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*Easily losing her temper with Tom's shenanigans.
 
*Easily losing her temper with Tom's shenanigans.
   
==Trivia==
 
*In the Tom and Jerry books, Mammy is often referred to as Cook.
 
*In the 1940s Tom and Jerry comics, Mammy is usually named Dinah.
 
*The mammy character in Disney's ''Three Orphan Kittens'' is actually named Mammy Twoshoes (note spelling) in some licensed 1930s-1950s book adaptations.
 
*She was neither seen nor mentioned in ''[[Tom and Jerry: The Movie]] ''and most other modern ''Tom and Jerry'' media.
 
*In "''[[Push-Button Kitty]]''", Mammy's skin tone is gray.
 
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
 
<gallery>
 
<gallery>
 
Part-time-pal.jpg
 
Part-time-pal.jpg
 
A0UynrR.jpg
 
A0UynrR.jpg
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Push-Button Kitty - Tom relaxing.PNG
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Mammy hits Tom.png|Mammy Two-Shoes' s face partially seen in [[Part Time Pal]]
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Mammy.jpg|Mammy Two-Shoes' face briefly shown in [[Saturday Evening Puss]]
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
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== Trivia ==
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* In [[Saturday Evening Puss]], When Mammy Too Shoes dashes home to punish Tom and his Friends for throwing a party, her face is briefly shown once. This is the only instance her face is seen.
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==References==
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Mammy Two Shoes (also known as Mammy, Mammy Two-Shoes, or Dinah in the 1940s Tom and Jerry comics) is a recurring character who appeared in 19 of MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons. She is a heavy-set, middle-aged African-American woman who often has to deal with the mayhem generated by the lead characters, but whether she is the owner of the home or merely the house-keeper is never really made clear. She is based on the "Mammy" archetype that was prevalent throughout the U.S. in the 19th and early 20th century.

As a partially-seen character, she was famous for never showing her head and face (although it is briefly visible in Saturday Evening Puss and Part Time Pal). Mammy's appearances have often been edited out, dubbed, or re-animated as a slim white woman in television broadcasts, since her character is a mammy archetype now often regarded as racist.

Bio

Personality

Appearance

With dark brown skin (later changed to an ivory-colored skin tone) she is distinguished by her usual, sleeveless dress with frills in the shoulders, a white apron with frills in the trim, old, yellow socks (often seen with some kind of suspender holding it up), and red slippers. The color of her attire often changes, but the pieces remain virtually the same. These colors are yellow, orange, green, blue, and red. She is usually seen holding a broom.

She is of mid-stature with dark skin, slightly rotund with a large bust and thick hands.

Theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoons

PDVD 002-1-

Mammy Two Shoes, in a scene from Saturday Evening Puss.

Mammy first appeared in Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon (except Tom was called "Jasper"). She always referred to Tom as his given name Thomas and almost always used "is" in conjunction with a pronoun ("is you" and "I is"). The character went on to make many appearances through 1952's Push-Button Kitty. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera initially portrayed Mammy as the maid of the house, with the real owners unknown to the viewers. Later, Hanna and Barbera seemed to suggest, through dialogue and occasional behavior, that the house was Mammy's own.

Censorship, discontinuation, and callbacks

Drgterr4

Mammy Two Shoes attacking Tom.

Director Gene Deitch stated that the "retiring" of Mammy's character was one of the changes that he felt he needed to make for the 13 shorts produced by Rembrandt Films.[1]

MGM Animation/Visual Arts, under the supervision of Chuck Jones, created replacement characters for Mammy in the Tom and Jerry cartoons featuring her for television. These versions used rotoscoping techniques to replace Mammy on-screen with either a stocky white woman (in most shorts) or a thin white woman (in Saturday Evening Puss); Randolph's voice on the soundtracks was replaced by an Irish-accented (or generic young adult in Puss) voice performed by June Foray.[2]

Three years after Turner Entertainment acquired Tom & Jerry from MGM, the cartoons featuring Mammy were re-recorded to remove Mammy Two Shoes' use of potentially offensive dialect. Lillian Randolph's voice was dubbed over by Thea Vidale. The re-recorded versions of the cartoons would air on Turner's Cartoon Network-related cable channels, and have at times turned up on DVD. However, some European TV showings of these cartoons, especially the UK, as well as the US DVD release of Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, and Tom and Jerry: The Deluxe Anniversary Collection and the US DVD and Blu-ray releases of Tom and Jerry Golden Collection, retain Randolph's original voice. The Region 2 Complete Collectors Edition DVD boxset has Vidale's voice on the first DVD and Randolph in a number of the episodes after that (such as A Mouse in the House and Mouse Cleaning).

A white woman named "Mrs. Two Shoes" appeared in some episodes of Tom and Jerry Tales. She had most aspects of Mammy Two Shoes' personality, a similar look, and a similar name.

 Appearances

No. Title Released
1 Puss Gets the Boot February 10, 1940
2 The Midnight Snack July 19, 1941
4 Fraidy Cat January 17, 1942
5 Dog Trouble April 18, 1942
6 Puss N' Toots May 30, 1942
10 The Lonesome Mouse May 22, 1943
18 The Mouse Comes to Dinner May 5, 1945
28 Part Time Pal March 15, 1947
32 A Mouse in the House August 30, 1947
36 Old Rockin' Chair Tom September 18, 1948
38 Mouse Cleaning December 11, 1948
39 Polka-Dot Puss February 26, 1949
40 The Little Orphan April 30, 1949
48 Saturday Evening Puss January 14, 1950
53 The Framed Cat October 21, 1950
58 Sleepy-Time Tom May 26, 1951
61 Nit-Witty Kitty October 6, 1951
67 Triplet Trouble April 19, 1952
70 Push-Button Kitty September 6, 1952[3]

Major appearances

  • The Lonesome Mouse - She's tricked by Tom's and Jerry's truce.
  • Part Time Pal - She is tormented by a drunk Tom.
  • Old Rockin' Chair Tom - Mammy's longest onscreen appearance. She takes a cat named Lightning.
  • Sleepy-Time Tom - She keeps an eye on Tom if he's sleeping on the job.
  • Push-Button Kitty - She orders a robocat called Mechano.

Gags

  • Been constantly afraid of Jerry (or mice in general) and jumping to the nearest high spot such as a chair or the balcony.
  • Pulling up the skirt, often pulling up, comically, many layers of skirts with distinct patterns.
  • Easily losing her temper with Tom's shenanigans.

Gallery

Trivia

  • In Saturday Evening Puss, When Mammy Too Shoes dashes home to punish Tom and his Friends for throwing a party, her face is briefly shown once. This is the only instance her face is seen.

References