A better Foster decision was to develop a Mutt and Jeff-like cat and dog pair, but success still eluded Van Beuren. Terry’s directorial replacement, John Foster, first singled out a pair of mice, but their resemblance to Disney’s Mickey was too close for comfort. Van Beuren, who’d lost Paul Terry and other creative staffers in 1929, needed breakthrough cartoon characters to put his studio on the map. Van Beuren’s New York studio had another pair of stars named Tom and Jerry. Before the Cat and Mouse: Van Beuren’s Tom and Jerry Filmography compiled by David Gerstein and Pietro Shakarian Special thanks to Jerry Beck, Cole Johnson, and Mark KauslerĪlmost a decade before MGM’s famed cat-and-mouse team, Amadee J.
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