Gay Purr-ee
Gay Purr-ee is a 1962 American animated musical film produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. It features the voice of Judy Garland in her only animated-film role, as well as Robert Goulet in his first feature film. The film received positive reviews, but was a box office disappointment. It is also the first animated film to be theatrically released by Warner Bros.
- Directed by Abe Levitow. Produced by Henry G. Saperstein and Lee Orgel. Written by Dorothy & Chuck Jones.
Vive La Fun!... Vive La Joy!... Vive La Judy!... taglines
Meowrice
[edit]- Boys, if you ever marry, marry for love... of money.
- As they say, evil is the root of all money... money trees, that is! Big, green money trees!
- [eats some sardines from a can] Canned fish, what will they think of next? Everything is packaged these days, even pretty girls hmm?
- [his henchcats catch Mewsette in a sack after she tries to jump off a bridge] Nice fielding, team. Come along, we'll take the scenic route home.
MADAME RUBENS--CHATTE:
- You know, if the opportunity arose to do him a disservice(Meowrice) I might not be able to resist it!
- Give Meowrice my love. And then turn him inside out !
Dialogue
[edit]- [Jean Tom and Robespierre are on a ship bound for Alaska]
- Robespierre: It's all right, Jaune-Tom. We'll get back all right.
- Jaune Tom: Oh, it's such a big ocean, Robespierre. Bigger than all France. Bigger than the whole world.
- Robespierre: Sure it is, but you've never given up hope yet.
- Jaune Tom: I have now. [it starts raining] It's too big, Robespierre. We'll never get back to find Mewsette.
- Robespierre: It's not as big as you think, Jaune-Tom. [noticing the rain] Why, look. It's just made up of little drops. It's all how you look at it. Honestly, Jaune-Tom. [Jaune-Tom stares at a puddle] Jaune-Tom?
- Jeanette: [to her sister] But darling, think of Paris! Lovely, gay Paris! Have you forgotten the sidewalk cafés and how we sipped champagne?
- Mewsette: Champagne? That must be what they call catnip in Paris. How nice!
- Jeanette: ...the button champignons sautéed in butter with tiny shreds of herbs...
- Mewsette: Champignons? I know what they are - mushrooms! And delicious, too!
- Jeanette: And oh, my dear, the Champs-Elysées!
- Mewsette: Champs-Elysées? I wonder what they taste like.
- Robespierre: Jaune Tom! Jaune Tom! Where are you, Jaune Tom?
- Jaune Tom: Over here, Robespierre.
- Robespierre: You can come on back, now! Everythings okay!
- Jaune Tom: Oh? You mean Mewsette-You mean Mewsette will take the mouse?
- Robespierre: Nope! She left, Jaune Tom. Took off! Nothin' but fun now that Mewsette's gone!
- Jaune Tom: What do you mean Mewsette's gone?
- Robespierre: She just went away in a carriage.
- Jaune Tom: Carriage? What carriage?
- Robespierre: The one that took her to Paris.
- Jaune Tom: Well, why did she go to Paris?!
- Robespierre: All felines go to Paris, I guess. C'mon, Jean Tom. [He runs off] Let's go mouse hunting!
- Jaune Tom: [He catches up with his friend and joins him calling out for Mewsette's name] Mewsette?! Mewsette?!
- Robespierre: [Robespierre stops running] Hey, wait for me!
- Jaune Tom: [calling out] Mewsette? Come back, Mewsette!
- Station Cat: For the last time, I said: If your friend arrived in that buggy, she has gone to Paris.
- Jaune Tom: All right, I know that. I know that, but where's Paris? What is Paris?
- Station Cat: [perplexed] What is Paris? Are you mad?
- Jaune Tom: I mean, I mean is it a school or something, for 'felines'?
- Station Cat: A school for felines?
- Jaune Tom: No? Well... a village, maybe?
- Station Cat: Yes, that is what it is. A little village. A mile or two up the tracks. [yawns] And now, if you don't mind, I do have work to do. [He goes to sleep]
- Jaune Tom: Well, thanks a lot! [He leaps off the platform and follows the tracks to Paris. At the same time, Robespierre meets up with the station cat]
- Robespierre: Jaune-Tom! Jaune-Tom! [catching his breath] P-p-pardon me, sir, b-but did you see-
- Station Cat: He went that way.
- Robespierre: Gee, thanks! Jaune-Tom!
- Robespierre: Huh? [sees the deep gorge below when they have ran away and are able to dodge an incoming train with a steam engine hauling lots of coaches and nearly running them over] JAUNE-TOM! YEOW! [He rockets onto Jaune-Tom's head with his feet pressing down on his skull] W-w-what are we doin' down here, Jaune-Tom? L-l-let's g-g-go home b-b-before somethin' happens to us.
- Jaune Tom: [climbing back on the viaduct] "I can't, Robespierre. I have to find Mewsette". (continues walking)
- Robespierre: Well, you look for Mewsette; I'm gonna look for trains.
- Bartender: Eh, what'll be a pleasure you're havin', s'il vous plait?
- Meowrice: [to the boys] Monsieurs?
- Jaune Tom: Uh... uh... milk.
- Bartender: Milk?
- Robespierre: No, no! Let's really live it up big, Jaune-Tom! [bangs his fist on the counter] Straight cream!
- Meowrice: No, no, monsiuers. On an occasion such as this, we drink champagne. [to the bartender] Champagne Gascon! Champagne for the greatest mouse catcher in all France and his manager! [Jaune-Tom and Robespierre smile proudly]
- Bartender: Uh, oui, oui, monsiuer! One bottle of champagne hot off the ice!
- Meowrice: Ah, the moon is beautiful tonight, mon 'cherie.
- Mewsette: Oh, yes. So romantic.
- Meowrice: [Meowrice leads her inside his lair] Step in here, my dear. Out of the chill night wind. [He lets Mewsette inside as the gentleman he partly is and follows her in, closing the door behind him]
- Mewsette: What was it you wish to tell me, Meowrice?
- Meowrice: Tonight, I wish to speak of love and marriage. You have thought of marriage, haven't you?
- Mewsette: [Mewsette hides half of her face with her tail, bashfully] Yes. I... I suppose I have.
- Meowrice: Good. Then I know just the one for you. Here's his picture. [showing Mewsette a picture] His name is Henry Pfft of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania U.S.A.
- Mewsette: [looks at the picture with disgust] You mean you want me to marry this... this fat old...
- Meowrice: [interrupting Mewsette] You are as bright as you are pretty my dear, so please get into the basket like a good little bride to be.
- [The henchcats show her the basket]
- Mewsette: [frightened] Who are they?
- Meowrice: Business associates Cheri, just get into the basket and you won't have to look at them anymore.
- Mewsette: Into the basket? No, oh no!
- Meowrice: [mocking her] Yes, oh yes!, you are going to Pittsburgh to marry that rich American, isn't that what you wanted? Isn't that why you left the farm?
- Mewsette: Yes, I mean no. [crying] I just, I just want Juane Tom. [continues crying]
- Meowrice: Juane Tom? You mean the world's greatest mouser? [laughs] Why, Jaune Tom is probably in Alaska about now.
- Mewsette: He is not, you're lying, just like you did about everything else!
- Meowrice: [coming toward her] Call it a weakness, now get into the basket!
- Mewsette: No I won't, I'm not going to marry anybody! [runs away]
- Meowrice: [perturbed] Get rid of that dog, you bumbling idiots!
- Bulldog: Your whiskers tickle, cats, and since I can't stand to be tickled by no cats, I'm gonna tear your tails off and have 'em for breakfast.
- Meowrice: [pleading with him] We understand your feelings, sir. Nothing like cat's tails for breakfast... [motioning toward Mewsette, who ducks safely] But back there among those barrels is a...
- [The bulldog growls at him and the henchcats and attacks them.]
- Meowrice: Yeow! No, please! Let's talk this over! [He continues to be attacked by the bulldog as he yelps in pain while Mewsette flees in fright]
- Meowrice: [angry] After all I've done for you, taught you everything I know, made you despicable scoundrels beyond compare! [The Shadow Cat finish putting the bandages on their master, who is groaning in pain] And what happens?! You meet one little dog, and I, Meowrice, have to save your miserable, worthless lives! [The Shadow Cats listen to their master's rant, somehow being used to it] Now, get out there and find Mewsette!
- Man: Brave country, is it not, mes amis? [The man has a pickaxe in his left hand] This weather, she is a little nippy for cats. [chuckles] You could call it "catnip weather. Ho-ho, catnip weather, no? [He chuckles as Robespierre bounces behind him] No. Oh, well. I am discouraged, too. We come for gold, we find cold. [Jaune-Tom trudges behind them, feeling discouraged, too] I'll tell you what: Let's join the Foreign Legion. We go to Africa and get warm again, eh? [At that moment, a mouse pops out of a bank of snow. Jaune-Tom senses its presence, bolts up the side of the mountain, and digs for the mouse and also... gold nuggets] [notices Jaune-Tom digging into the mountain] Mon dieu! Little turtle, look! [Robespierre bumps into his leg and falls down into the snow] We've struck it rich!
- Robespierre: [Robespierre spots the gold on the mountain and bounds his way up the mountain] [to Jaune-Tom, excited] Jaune-Tom, we're rich! We're rich! [Jaune-Tom is still digging up a chockfull of gold nuggets, until he brings out his head with the mouse in his mouth. He looks at his friend who comes along and looks at the gold] Wow! Whoopee! Hehehehe! Yahoo! We're rich! [He tosses up piles of gold] Now, we can go back! Yahoooooo!
Taglines
[edit]- Vive La Fun!... Vive La Joy!... Vive La Judy!...
- Vive La Coolest Cat Who Ever Captured The Happy Heart Of Paris!
Voice cast
[edit]- Judy Garland as Mewsette
- Robert Goulet as Jaune Tom
- Red Buttons as Robespierre
- Paul Frees as Meowrice
- Hermione Gingold as Mme. Rubens-Chatte
- Morey Amsterdam as Narrator and Man on Ship
- Mel Blanc as Bulldog and Additional voices
- The Mellomen as Meowrice's business partners (singing voices)
- Julie Bennett and Joan Gardner as two ladies from Provence
- Thurl Ravenscroft as Singing Hench Cat (uncredited)
External links
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