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Occasional reunions followed over the years, including a nice run in the late Sixties. Several solo films, a Colgate-sponsored variety show for Jerry, and a number of competing calypso albums followed, all of which were met with public indifference or outright derision. Finally, via respective publicists, the cat and the mouse announced they were breaking up. Crew members and animators became used to the icy silences that permeated cartoon sets. Still, by 1958, neither mammal was on speaking terms with each other. That ampersand between their names was the key to their continual success. But as with so many comic duos from the mid-20th century, Tom & Jerry knew that their whole was greater than the sum of their parts. So did scandal - affairs with starlets and each other’s spouses, run-ins with the law, being called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, a nasty addiction to pain pills and catnip - and, eventually, a mutual sense of acrimony.
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Fame, fortune, and Oscars (seven of them) followed. For almost two decades, they created a double act that made them both household names. After a trial-run short in the early 1940s was met was raves, they were signed to a exclusive contract. Never mind the centuries of biological history that made one intent on killing the other: Even the suits had to admit that these two had crazy chemistry together. After an exhaustive search on several continents, they found a young, aspiring rodential star named Jerry. Some folks at an animation studio thought it’d be a good idea to pair him with a mouse.