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The Mouse That Jack Built

The Mouse That Jack Built

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The Mouse That Jack Built

1959

0h 7m

6.8(19 votes)

Animation

Overview

In this spoof of "The Jack Benny Program", a mouse with Jack Benny's personality and poor violin playing ability lives, along with a mouse version of Benny's valet, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, in a hole in a wall of Jack Benny's own home. Jack the rodent takes a mouse version of 'Mary Livingstone (I)' out to dinner, and the two unwittingly walk right into the disguised mouth of an orange cat!

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Warner Bros. Pictures

Warner Bros. Cartoons

The people behind it

Cast & crew

5 featured cast members

Starring

Jack Benny

Jack Benny

Jack (voice)

Mary Livingstone

Mary Livingstone

Mary (voice)

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Rochester (voice)

Don Wilson

Don Wilson

Don (voice)

Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc

The Maxwell / Ed the Vault Guard (voice)

Creative team

Directed by: Robert McKimson
Written by: Tedd Pierce
Produced by: John W. Burton

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