Blue Cat Blues

Blue Cat Blues is the 103rd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Ed Barge, Irven Spence, Lewis Marshall and Kenneth Muse, with layouts by Richard Bickenbach and backgrounds by Robert Gentle. Unusually for a Tom and Jerry short, Jerry "speaks", narrating the story in voiceover via Paul Frees. This cartoon was releas... more

Blue Cat Blues is the 103rd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Ed Barge, Irven Spence, Lewis Marshall and Kenneth Muse, with layouts by Richard Bickenbach and backgrounds by Robert Gentle. Unusually for a Tom and Jerry short, Jerry "speaks", narrating the story in voiceover via Paul Frees. This cartoon was released on November 16, 1956 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and marks the final appearance of Butch in Tom and Jerry cartoon shorts produced before 1959. A depressed Tom is sitting on the railroad tracks, pondering suicide. Watching from a bridge crossing the tracks from above, Jerry relives "the story of a cat with a broken heart" in his head. He relates the events leading up to Tom's depression, beginning with Tom and Jerry as friends, until Tom found himself attracted to a female opportunist cat. She reciprocates his feelings for the time being, but Tom... less