Mistress Tom Cat cartoon "Tom and Jerry" is called Mommy-two-slipper

Hostess Tom Mommy-two-slipper (Eng. Mammy Two Shoes) is shown in the form of a classic housewife-Negro. Initially portrayed as a maid, who keeps order in the house, which is home to Tom and Jerry, but in later releases is portrayed as a woman of the house. Her face was almost never shown, because the camera only covers 1/3 of the height of the room. Mommy's face-Slipper Two-seen only in one series: «Saturday Evening Puss», and then only because the young spectators pelted studio a letter asking him to show. The prototype for its creation

He served as a black actress Hattie McDaniel, owner of "Oscar" for her role as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind." Tom drives using the broom as he sits back. Sometimes it puts all its decorations and goes to play poker. Quite often he throws Tom home for laziness and self-mutilation. His favorite expression about the antics of Tom: "Tom, if you're a good cat, I'm Lana Turner." Mom voiced two-slipper black actress Lillian Randolph, but in some later editions of Randolph's voice was replaced by voice actress June Foray. He is afraid of mice and their jumps on a hill, like a stool, with shouting and calling Tom. But in 1954, apparently for reasons of "political correctness", Tom changed owner. Mommy-two-Slipper was the Irish, and her bare feet and hands, enters the frame, were repainted white. After 12 years, got rid of it at all.

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