Mammy Two Shoes

Mammy Two Shoes is a recurring character in MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons. She is a heavy-set middle-aged black woman who often has to deal with the mayhem generated by the lead characters.

As a partially-seen character, she was famous for never showing her head (although it is briefly visible in Saturday Evening Puss, Mouse Cleaning and Part Time Pal). Mammy's appearances have often been edited out, dubbed, or re-animated as a slim white woman in later television showings, since her character is a mammy archetype now often regarded as racist. It was later revealed that her character was greatly inspired by Oscar-winning black actress and singer Hattie McDaniel, best known for playing "Mammy" in MGM and David O. Selznick's 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

Theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoons
Mammy first appeared in Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon (although the cat's name is "Jasper" in this one). The character went on to make many appearances through 1952's Push-Button Kitty. From 1954's Pet Peeve, the owner of the house became a young, white, middle-class couple, and starting with 1955's The Flying Sorceress, the audience was able to see the heads of the owner(s).

Mammy was originally voiced by well-known black character actress Lillian Randolph. In the 1960s, the MGM animation studio, by then under the supervision of Chuck Jones, created censored versions of the Tom & Jerry cartoons featuring Mammy for television. These versions used rotoscoping techniques to replace Mammy on-screen with a thin white woman, and the voice on the soundtracks was replaced by an Irish-accented voice performed by white actress June Foray.

The original versions of the cartoons were reinstated when Turner Broadcasting acquired ownership of the Tom & Jerry property. In 1995, the cartoons featuring Mammy were edited to replace Lillian Randolph's voice with that of Thea Vidale, whose dialogue was redone to remove the Mammy character's use of potentially offensive dialect. These versions of the cartoons are aired to this day on Turner's Cartoon Network-related cable channels, and have also turned up on DVD as well (on an extra note, many fans of Tom and Jerry prefer the original voice of Mammy). However, some European TV showings of these cartoons retain Randolph's original voice.

Tom and Jerry Tales
In the modern Tom and Jerry Tales a redesigned Mammy has appeared, debuting in the short Ho, Ho Horrors and turning up again later on. Though keeping her buxom, overweight build, tough personality, Southern accent and tendency to call Tom "Thomas," Mammy's skin tone has changed to Caucasian, presumably to avoid any possible controversy. Several photos on a mantle in Ho, Ho Horrors also imply that Mammy now has a family (a man and a boy, also shown only as legs and partial torsos), though they have yet to appear in actual animation. In short Power Tom she's a superheroine called Power Gal.

In the new shorts, the now-Caucasian Mammy is explicitly called "Mrs. Two-Shoes".

Tom and Jerry

 * Puss Gets the Boot
 * The Midnight Snack
 * Fraidy Cat
 * Dog Trouble
 * Puss N' Toots
 * The Lonesome Mouse
 * The Mouse Comes to Dinner (This episode cuts a woman on TV showings in US)
 * Part Time Pal
 * A Mouse in the House
 * Old Rockin' Chair Tom
 * Mouse Cleaning
 * Polka-Dot Puss
 * The Little Orphan (Cameo appearance)
 * Saturday Evening Puss
 * The Framed Cat
 * Sleepy-Time Tom
 * Nit-Witty Kitty
 * Triplet Trouble
 * Push-Button Kitty

(Mammy Two Shoes does not appear in the short, 'Casanova Cat')

Tom and Jerry Tales(Mrs. Two Shoes)

 * Ho, Ho Horrors
 * Tin Cat of Tomorrow
 * Power Tom
 * Cat Show Catastrophe
 * Invasion of the Body Slammers
 * Little Big Mouse
 * Game of Mouse and Cat

Major appearances

 * The Lonesome Mouse - she's tricked by Tom's and Jerry's truce.
 * Old Rockin' Chair Tom - she takes a cat named Lightning.
 * Sleepy-Time Tom - she keeps the eye on Tom is he's sleeping on the job.
 * Push-Button Kitty - she orders a robocat called Mechano.
 * Tin Cat of Tomorrow - she orders a robocat called Mechanico.
 * Power Tom - she disguises herself as Power Gal to save Tom and Jerry from Butch and his pals.

Voice Actors that portrayed Mammy Two Shoes

 * Lillian Randolph: 1940 - 1952
 * June Foray: Replaced Voice in the shorts with Mammy as a white woman
 * Thea Vidale: Replaced Voice in original shorts to remove offensive dialect.
 * Nicole Oliver: Tom and Jerry Tales