Penelope Pussycat

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Penelope Pussycat is an animated cartoon character, featured in the Warner Bros. classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts along with Pepé Le Pew. Although she usually does not speak, her "meows" and "purrs" (or "le mews", "le meows", 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", "Fabrette", and "Felice", and animator Chuck Jones' 1960 model sheet calls her "Le Cat". 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. 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.

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