Magic Slipper

Lots of '40s swing-style singing in this retelling of the Cinderella legend with a twist: a wolf (who looks like Oil Can Harry, but also like the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood as the Prince asks, "Aren't you in the wrong fairy tale?") moves in to impersonate the Prince (a goofy mouse). Pearl Pureheart (portrayed in a very sexy outfit and body) appears to play Cinderella. Where trouble comes, Mighty Mouse comes to the rescue in a very strange way when he descends from the sky on a pair of snow skis.

Mighty Mouse, Oil Can Harry, Pearl Pureheart, Mouse Fairy Godmother, Prince

Some prints of this cartoon delete a politically incorrect scene where the band is portrayed by a group of black musicians who have big white lips and bald heads.

Created by I. (Izzy) Klein in the spring of 1940, this character was originally designed as a fly. Paul Terry liked the concept, and green-lighted the project after changing the fly to a mouse called "Supermouse."

After two years on the screen, the Supermouse name was changed to Mighty Mouse. Some reports are that the threat of a lawsuit from DC Comics was behind this name change. Others insist that Terry did not want to compete against a character of the same name that an ex-TerryToons employee drew for Coo Coo Comics.

In any case, in 1944, the character's name was changed, and the Supermouse cartoons were retitled to the new name.