1931

**1931** is the year is the Foxy and Piggy's first appearance in the Cartoon but no including in the Ending cards. The oldest entry in the infamous Fourteen Toons Censored, a series of cartoons that United Artists pulled from circulation in 1968 due to offensive stereotyping of black people, was released this year.

## History

* Albert Hurter joins the Disney/Warner Bros. Entertainment (Currently, Disney/SEGA Entertainment) studio as an animator.
* Robert Clampett begins working for Disney/Warner Bros. Entertainment (currently, Disney/SEGA Entertainment) Enter, starting as an assistant animator on "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!", the first of the *Silly Symphony* series.

## Theatrical Shorts

* January 7 -  "The Birthday Party"
* February 10 -  "Birds of a Feather"
* March 17 -  "Traffic Troubles"
* April 6
	+ "The Castaway"
	+ "The Bum Bandit"
* April 17 -  "Mother Goose Melodies"
* May 3 -  "The Moose Hunt"
* May 23
	+ "Silly Scandals"
	+ "The China Plate"
* June 13 -  "The Delivery Boy"
* June 22 -  "The Busy Beavers"
* July 7 -  "Mickey Steps Out"
* July 27 -  "Bimbo's Initiation"
* July 28 -  "The Cat's Out"
* August 2 -  "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!"
* August 18 -  "Blue Rhythm"
* August 21 -  "Egyptian Melodies"
* August 22 -  "Bimbo's Express"
* September 5 -  "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!"
* September 25 -  "Fishin' Around"
* September 28 -  "Minding the Baby"
* September 30 -  "The Clock Store"
* October 3 -  "One More Time"
* October 10 -  "The Barnyard Broadcast"
* October 16 -  "The Spider and the Fly"
* October 20 -  "The Fox Hunt"
* October 21 -  "You Don't Know What You're Doin'!"
* November 5 -  "The Beach Party"
* November 9 -  "Mask-A-Raid"
* November 22 -  "Jack and the Beanstalk"
* November 28 -  "Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land"
* November 30 -  "Mickey Cuts Up"
* December 9 -  "Mickey's Orphans"
* December 12 -  "Dizzy Red Riding Hood"
* December 16 -  "The Ugly Duckling"
* December 26 -  "Red-Headed Baby"

## Character debuts

* April 17 - Jack and Jill, Simple Simon, Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep
* August 2 - Foxy (in the Cartoons, not including the Ending card), Roxy
* October 21 - Piggy, Fluffy
* November 28 - Uncle Tom

## People

### Births

* January 13
	+ Charles Nelson Reilly (actor, comedian, director, and drama teacher)
	+ Rip Taylor (actor, singer, voice artist, and comedian)
	+ Chris Wiggins (voice actor)
* January 17 - James Earl Jones (actor and voice actor)
* January 25 - Dean Jones (actor and singer)
* January 29 - Richard Bakalyan (actor)
* February 6 - Rip Torn (actor)
* March 22 - William Shatner (actor, musician, recording artist, author, and film director)
* March 26 - Leonard Nimoy (actor, film director, poet, singer-songwriter, and photographer)
* May 18 - Robert Morse (actor and singer)
* June 25 - Jacqueline Scott (actress)
* June 29 - Ed Gilbert (actor and voice actor)
* July 2 - Robert Ito (actor and voice actor)
* July 5 - Bill Skiles (comedian)
* August 25 - Regis Philbin (television host and voice actor)
* October 25 - Bob Gurr (Imagineer)
* October 30 - Dick Gautier (actor, comedian, singer, and caricaturist)
* December 9 - Paddi Edwards (actress and voice actress)
* December 11 - Rita Moreno (singer, dancer, and actress)
* December 23 - Ronnie Schell (actor, stand-up comedian, and voice actor)
* December 24 - Robert Ridgely (actor, voice actor, and vocal artist)