Gay Purr-ee

"Gay Purr-ee" (1962) is a UPA animated musical you can watch online on iFILM, with Judy Garland voicing Mewsette — a wide-eyed country cat who trades the farm for the glamour of 1890s Paris. She lands directly into a con run by the slick Meowrice and the scheming Madame Rubens-Chatte, who dress up their racket as a modeling agency.

Her loyal tomcat Jaune-Tom and the lovable Robespierre — voiced by Robert Goulet and Red Buttons — chase her across France. The real visual hook is the backgrounds: each Paris sequence is a painted pastiche of a different French Impressionist, from Seurat's dots to Toulouse-Lautrec's silhouettes. Garland recorded the soundtrack the same year as her landmark Carnegie Hall concert, and that voice carries every song further than the animation probably earns on its own. Stream "Gay Purr-ee" (1962) online on iFILM.