Gay Purr-ee is a 1962 American animated musical film produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros..

Inspired by the human Jeanette's stories of the glamour and sophistication of Parisian life, Mewsette runs away to Paris.

Taking advantage of Mewsette's country naivete, he puts her in the sultry Madame Henrietta Reubens-Chatte care.

Just as she about to give up and return to the farm, Meowrice takes her out to see Paris' feline side of the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Élysées, the Mewlon Rouge, and then a buggy ride back to Madame Henrietta's.

By coincidence, Jaune Tom displays his incredible mouse-hunting skills in front of Meowrice, who seeing a money-making opportunity, gets them drunk, and sells them as mousers on an Alaskan-bound ship.

Meowrice quietly writes a check with invisible ink to pay Madame Reubens-Chatte for her services, then takes Mewsette to his hideout in Notre Dame.

[4] According to the production notes on the DVD edition, it was Garland who suggested that her Wizard of Oz songwriters, Harold Arlen and E.Y.

A copyright entry for a song titled "Free at Last" made for the film exists, though it is not included in the final production.

[7] After Warner Bros. Cartoons was closed a year later, Jones hired his old unit for his first independent studio, Sib Tower 12 Productions.

[9] Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The animation, in Technicolor, is inventive enough, leaning toward the economy of motion with which UPA revolutionized the cartoon movie (to say nothing of the TV commercial) and filling in the backgrounds with charming semi-abstractions in consonance with what might be called the modern French manner.

"[10] Variety felt the film was "hampered by an uninspired storyline, but its otherwise slick and meticulous production values overshadow the weakness with ample artistry.

[12] Jerry Beck, in his 2005 book The Animated Movie Guide, felt Gay Purr-ee was "a good effort" and "unjustly underrated".

Despite its "strong design sense" and voice cast, he agreed the animation quality is sometimes "on a television level or worse".