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Director:
Abe Levitow
Writers:
Dorothy Jones (written by) &
Chuck Jones (written by) ...
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Release Date:
24 October 1962 (USA) more
Tagline:
Vive La Fun!... Vive La Joy!... Vive La Judy!... more
Plot:
Mouser Jaone Tom and housecat Mewsette are living in the French country side, but Mewsette wants to... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Well I DID like it more (11 total)

Cast

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Judy Garland ... Mewsette (voice)

Robert Goulet ... Jaune-Tom (voice)

Red Buttons ... Robespierre (voice)
Paul Frees ... Meowrice (voice)
Hermione Gingold ... Mme. Rubens-Chatte (voice)
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Morey Amsterdam ... Narrator (voice)
Julie Bennett ... (voice)

Mel Blanc ... Bulldog (voice)
June Foray ... (voice)
Joan Gardner ... (voice)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
Finland:S

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When the nefarious Meowrice hatches a plot to shanghai Jaune Tom and Robespierre and sell them as ship's cats, he escorts them to the celebrated feline cabaret, the "Mewlon Rouge", under guise of friendship. During this scene, the famous French artist Toulouse-Lautrec - who painted many advertising posters for the real Moulon Rouge - is portrayed as a bearded, green-colored cat sitting at a nearby table, tossing back a drink and sketching his surroundings. more
Quotes:
Meowrice: As they say, evil is the root of all money... money trees, that is! Big, green money trees. more
Movie Connections:
References Moulin Rouge (1952) more
Soundtrack:
Little Drops of Rain (Reprise) more

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14 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Well I DID like it, 11 June 2002
9/10
Author: JC Alvarez (fandoreth@yahoo.com) from Mexico, DF

seriously, I thought "Gay Pur-ree" is up there on par with Disney's greatest productions, even surpassing some of them. Sure it's no blockbuster, nor is it planned to be one. But it does manage a certain kind of epic magic, more akin to the impressionist style it emulates than to the "MTV video feel" behind most of today's standard animation works.

Gay Pur-ree (which aired in my country as "La Fair Mewsette", to my mind a MUCH better title) is a throwback to an age of innocence (corny as this may sound) in more than one sense; in those days, a simple, humane story was all the charm a story needed (my, that DID sound corny indeed). The movie had that special feel, in spades. And to me (a very impressionable 8-year old at the time), it was a true saga. I was taken to another world, cried for the characters, memorized their names and the song. And I dreamed of it for a month after watching it. I felt the magic. I felt as they said you should feel after watching an animated movie.

*sigh*

Maybe not a must see, but certainly a must remember. Watch it, and cherish the memory.

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