Solid Serenade

Solid Serenade is a 1946 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 26th Tom and Jerry short, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on August 31, 1946 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and April 3, 1954. It was produced by Fred Quimby, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and the musical supervision was by Scott Bradley. Ed Barge, Michael Lah, and Kenneth Muse animated it; Pete Burness and Ray Patterson were uncredited animators.

Dialogue

[first lines]

Tom: ♪ I got a gal who's always late ♪

♪ Anytime we have a date. ♪

♪ But I love her. ♪

♪ I'm gonna ask her ♪

♪ Is you is or is you ain't my baby? ♪

♪ The way you acting lately makes me down. ♪

♪ You is still my baby, baby. ♪

♪ Seems my flame in your heart's done gone out. ♪

♪ A woman is a creature that's always been strange. ♪

♪ Just when you're sure of one ♪

♪ You find she's gone and made a change. ♪

♪ Is you is or is you ain't my baby? ♪

♪ Maybe baby's found somebody new. ♪

♪ Or is my baby still my baby true? ♪

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Tom: [whistles] Come on, boy. Go get it. Come on. [throws a plank of wood. Spike chases it away]

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[last lines]

Tom: [speaking like French actor, Charles Boyer] Ah, I love you! Ah, you set my soul on fire. It is not just a little spark. It is a flame, a big, roaring flame! Ah, I can feel it now.

[Tom then realizes he is holding Spike, not his cat girlfriend]

Voice cast

• Billy Bletcher as Tom and Spike.
• William Hanna as Tom's screams and Jerry.
• Ira "Buck" Woods as Tom's singing voice.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Solid Serenade on Wikipedia