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DuchessIs the elegant cartoon Persian cat created for Walt Disney’s 1970 animated feature, The Aristocats. She and O’Malley the Alley Cat were amongst the most loved of cartoon cats ever drawn. Garfield The fat, lazy funny patter cat, was created by Jim Davis in 1978. Within four years, Garfield’s comic strip was appearing in a thousand newspapers around the world. He also has computer animated and cartoon movies under his belt. Felix the Cat Unlike other cartoon felines, Felix began his career as a movie star, rather than a cartoon strip. Created by Australian Pat Sullivan, Felix was the star of the first “talkie” cartoon, a year before Mickey Mouse began to talk. Felix was also the subject of the very first television test broadcasts in 1928, and was NBC’s official test pattern until the late 1930’s. Sylvester The animated cartoon character, first appeared in the “Life With Feathers,” television cartoon episode in 1945, by Warner Brothers. Morris The most famous cat in America, was a fourteen pound orange tabby charmer who was rescued from a Chicago animal shelter, by Bob Martwick, a professional animal trainer. Morris became spokes-cat for Purina’s 9 Lives cat food in 1969, and eventually became honorary director of Star-Kist Foods, with veto power over any cat food flavor he didn’t like. President Nixon invited Morris to co-sign (with a paw-print) the National Animal Protection Bill. Up until the time he died in 1978, Morris lived with Bob in a Chicago dog kennel where there was never any question who was top cat. The Cat in the Hat The creation of Theodor Seuss Geisel, who called himself “Dr.Seuss,” first appeared in the children’s book of the same name published in 1957. He may be an old standby, but he never lets us down. When in doubt, turn to the story of the cat that transformed a dull, rainy afternoon into a magical and just-messy-enough adventure. With his simple and often single-vowel vocabulary, the Doctor knew what he was doing: hear it, learn it, read it--laughing all the way. The Cat in the Hat is a must for any child's library. Tom The ever-dueling duo have chased each other from the Hollywood Bowl to Hungary to outer space and back, and fifty years after their movie debut, are still going strong. Vintage Tom & Jerry cartoons still play at the cinema, on television, and are packaged for sale or rental on videotape. Tom and Jerry have very definite personalities. Tom is a fiendish opportunist, always anxious to ingratiate himself with the powers that be, whether housekeeper, dog, or even, on occasion, mouse; while Jerry, the impish schemer, is happy minding his own business until cornered, piqued or generally provoked. Puss'N'Boots The story was originally written by the Brothers Grimm but has since been drawn in cartoons, plays have been written about him and he even starred in the movie Shrek II. Puss'n'Boots wore long boots and a hat. He outwitted an ogre and a king to help his owner get a castle and marry a princess. Pepper A gray cat who lived in Hollywood, was a true motion picture "old timer" having worked with such classic silent movie greats as Charlie Chaplin, fatty Arbuckle and the Keystone Kops. |
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