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| Penelope Pussycat | |
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| Looney Tunes character | |
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| First appearance | For Scent-imental Reasons (November 12, 1949) |
| Created by | Chuck Jones |
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| In-universe information | |
| Species | Cat |
| Gender | Female |
| Nationality | French |
Penelope Pussycat is an animated cartoon character, featured in the Warner Bros. classic Looney Tunes animated shorts along with Pepé Le Pew. Although she is typically a non-speaker, her "meows" and "purrs" (or "le mews" and "le purrs") were most often provided by Mel Blanc using a feminine voice. The character did not originally have a permanent name; she was alternately referred to as "Penelope", "Fifi", and "Fabrette", and animator Chuck Jones' 1960 model sheet calls her "Le Cat".[1] The name Penelope Pussycat was created retroactively for Warner Bros. marketing.
The character first appeared in the 1949 short For Scent-imental Reasons, which won an Academy Award.[2] While the skunk had been used in several earlier cartoons since Odor-able Kitty (1945), the addition of his main love interest in For Scent-imental Reasons solidified his characterization and the structure of all further Pepé films.[3]
In the 1959 short Really Scent, she was voiced by June Foray; in the 1962 short Louvre Come Back to Me!, she was voiced by Julie Bennett; and in the 2000 film, Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, she was voiced by Frank Welker. Her first speaking role was in the 1995 short Carrotblanca, where she is voiced by Tress MacNeille. In Bugs Bunny Builders, she is voiced by Salli Saffioti and is given a French accent.
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