They replaced her (re-animated) in at least one cartoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1G20vPaAFM
http://secretvortex.com/tandj49.html
Spotlight: “Saturday Evenuing Puss”
With Tom, Jerry, Butch, Meathead, Shorty, Mammy Two-Shoes
STORY: While Mammy’s away, the cats will play. Jazz, that is.
Mammy Two-Shoes and her later replacement
I am spotlighting this short, a fine one, not because of its inherent goodness but because it brings up the subject of Tom and Jerry being edited and, in some cases, re-animated, for television. I found several versions of this short, and not a single one of them was the original 1950 release. Years after the initial release of the Tom and Jerry films, overly sensitive executives deemed Mammy Two-Shoes far too much of a racial stereotype to be seen on television, so they came with several solutions. I discuss all this elsewhere in a short piece about Mammy herself (love dat woman!), but in case you have come to this page through a search engine, I’ll go through it again. The first solution was to ask Chuck Jones to replace her with a newly animated white owner, a young blond in this film. Another later solution was to keep Mammy, but replace the original voice track with a new, more “correct” voice. As I say elsewhere - phooey! The first solution replaces a marvelously animated character with, my apologies to the great Chuck Jones, a dull one. The second solution shows a complete disregard for the hilarious energy and humor actress Lillian Randolph brought to the part of Mammy. And things got so mixed up in the process that you can even find versions of Tom and Jerry cartoons with the white woman speaking in Lillian Randolph’s voice!
Above is a comparison between Mammy and the Young Girl. Notice how much more rich detail there is not only in Mammy herself but in her personal belongings. I don’t really blame Chuck Jones for saving some time when redrawing the scene for television in the sixties. He was employed by MGM at the time, he was asked to do a job, he did it. I just wish he would have stood up for Mammy Two-Shoes.
I should relate some other things I noticed while watching several different versions of this film, including one dubbed into Japanese. There is a moment when Jerry comes out of his hole to complain to Tom about the raucous music the cats are playing. In what appears to be the closest to the original version, you can just barely make out Jerry’s voice. In another version, there is no voice and Jerry is suddenly doing a masterful bit of pantomime. In the Japanese version, he yells in Japanese. And all three versions work!
This is one of the few Tom and Jerry cartoons where you can see Mammy’s face, although you have to freeze-frame it just right to do so. Being a purist, I refuse to spoil things, so you’ll just have to do a search for yourself.
As for the short itself, it’s very musical. Tom and his friends play hot jazz, Jerry objects, everybody runs around like crazy people.... it’s a Tom and Jerry short, whattaya want?