The Milky Way
1940 | 8m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Rudolf Ising |
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| Writer: | Maurice "Jake" Day |
| Staring: |
| The three little kittens have lost their mittens and are sent to bed without dinner. From their room, they see the Milky Way and sail up to it, using a basket and helium balloons, passing through some fanciful astronomical bodies, until they reach a Milky Way filled with every conceivable form of milk. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 22, 1940 |
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| Director: | Rudolf Ising |
| Writer: | Maurice "Jake" Day |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | milk, kitten, milky way |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Rudolf Ising Productions, MGM Cartoon Studio |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: May 03, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Bernice Hansen | Mama Cat / Three Little Kittens (voice) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Maurice "Jake" Day | Writer |
| Carman Maxwell | Production Manager |
| George Gordon | Animation |
| Michael Lah | Animation |
| Scott Bradley | Music |
| Ray Abrams | Animation |
| Carl Urbano | Animation |
| Rudolf Ising | Director |
| Pete Burness | Animation |
| Robert Allen | Animation |
| Fred MacAlpin | Sound Effects Editor |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Rudolf Ising | Producer |
| William Hanna | Co-Producer |
| Fred Quimby | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
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OK, so I didn't love the squeaking singing as we meet the three little kittens who've lost their mittens - and it's freezing out there! Mama isn't impressed, so it's no milk and off to bed. These critters aren't happy that they've got no supper but are soon distracted by the Milky Way in the sky. Ho ... w can they get there? There'll be loads of milk there, surely? Balloons might help, and a basket? There's the green cheese moon, the comet train, Martian shooting stars, and then they navigate the Dippers before arriving in a lactose Eutopia where there's loads of song-free fun to be had. Thing is, the moral of the story has yet to arrive! This is good fun with plenty of childish fun as the mice mess about in just about every milky substance know to man - or mice.