Studio: Fleischer Studios
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Produced by: Max Fleischer
Short Synopsis
Myron the kitten, introduced as a stray two years earlier, has wandered away from his mother and turns up on Pudgy's doorstep, lost and mewing. Pudgy, after some suspicion, takes him in hand and sets out to find the mother cat, leading the kitten through the neighbourhood, across streets, over fences and past the dangers a kitten can meet, a dog, a car, a storm drain, with the puppy shepherding him out of each. Betty appears at the beginning and end. The kitten is restored to a frantic mother cat, and Pudgy comes home to be praised. Documentation of the film is thin, its Wikipedia entry noting only that Myron and his mother return from Happy You and Merry Me, and the synopsis above is drawn from the cartoon itself.
Why It Matters
- It is the last of the Pudgy-and-Myron films and one of the gentlest, a rescue story without a villain, animated by the Waldman-Friedman unit that had made the two animals the real stars of the Betty Boop series since 1935.
- Its US copyright lapsed, and the film is freely distributed. It is one of the final Betty Boops made in New York before the studio's move to Miami in the autumn of 1938, and one of the last animated by Lillian Friedman; Kate Wright, who voices Betty, was one of several women who filled the role when Mae Questel declined to move to Florida.
Notes and Trivia
- Mae Questel stayed in New York and voiced Betty again only decades later, in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- Myron the kitten appeared in three cartoons in all.
- See also: Happy You and Merry Me (1936), We Did It (1936), Pudgy Picks a Fight! (1937).
