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 African-American actress and singer Hattie McDaniel, best known for playing "Mammy" in MGM's 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

Mammy first appeared in Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon. 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 the mid-1990s, the cartoons featuring Mammy were edited to replace Lillian Randolph's voice with that of a new voice actress, 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.

In Tom and Jerry Tales she appears in the short Ho, Ho Horror as a buxom white woman and is called "Mrs. Two-Shoes". Several photos on a mantle also imply she has a family (a man and a boy, shown only as legs and partial torsos).

Featured shorts

 * Puss Gets the Boot
 * The Midnight Snack
 * Fraidy Cat
 * Dog Trouble
 * Puss N' Toots
 * The Lonesome Mouse
 * The Mouse Comes to Dinner
 * Part Time Pal
 * A Mouse in the House
 * Old Rockin' Chair Tom
 * Mouse Cleaning
 * Polka-Dot Puss
 * The Little Orphan (cameo)
 * Saturday Evening Puss
 * The Framed Cat
 * Casanova Cat (probable)
 * Sleepy-Time Tom
 * Nit-witty Kitty
 * Triplet Trouble
 * Push-Button Kitty