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Lennie Small: A gigantic, physically strong imbecile who travels with George and is his constant companion. [5] He dreams of "living off the fatta' the lan '" and being able to tend to rabbits. His love for soft things is a weakness, mostly because he does not know his own strength, and eventually becomes his undoing.
At Tyler Ranch, the Boss is suspicious of Lennie's mental condition. George claims Lennie was kicked in the head by a horse as a child. They befriend old one-handed ranch-hand Candy but dislike the Boss' son, Curley, who hates people bigger than him. Curley's attractive wife flirts with Lennie and George, and George instructs Lennie to avoid her.
Of Mice and Men is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 play of the same name, which itself was based on the novella of the same name by author John Steinbeck.The film stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, and Lon Chaney Jr., and features Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele, and Noah Beery Jr. [2] The film tells the story of two men, George and his intellectually disabled partner ...
George's guardianship keeps Lennie out of trouble, but we soon see this is a slippery slope. Lennie's displays of love result in several deaths ranging from mice and puppies to a beautiful woman. Eventually, in the face of a lynch mob, George kills Lennie to put him out of his misery. [1]
Later that day, Lizzie and Mika go back to the train tracks, and Lizzie feeds the trapped walker a mouse; she moves in closer, preparing to let the walker bite her, telling Mika that the walkers "want me to change", but a group of walkers suddenly appear and the two flee back to the house.
Willoughby first appeared in the 1940 cartoon Of Fox and Hounds.He was created and voiced by Tex Avery. [2] [3] According to Chuck Jones, the character was based on Lennie, from Of Mice and Men (of which the title of Of Fox and Hounds is a knockoff).
The character of "Milton Mouse" has been credited to Terry employee William Ferguson in 1921. [4] The September 27, 1922 cartoon The Fable of the Romantic Mouse was the first to establish a female mouse character, who in this picture was called Lizzie. [5] Later films called Milton's girlfriend Rita [6] or Mary. [3]
The cartoons would usually follow the misadventures of two bears inspired by George and Lennie from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men: [4] George, the short, short-tempered, intelligent one (voiced by Dick Nelson [2]) and Junior, the tall, dim-witted, strong one (voiced by Tex Avery [2]). George would usually come up with a plan to fix their ...