Wild Over You and signage in the animation uses Franglais to signal to an American audience that the cartoon takes place in France, with the heavily accented Pepé Le Pew resembling actor Charles Boyer. In the Paris Exposition of 1900, tourists are guided around a zoo (a rather cruel zoo by today's standards), but are panic-stricken to find a wildcat has escaped. Elsewhere, the escaped wildcat stalks around the park. Seeing an animal controller from the zoo pursuing her, she spots some black and white paint nearby and paints herself to look like a skunk, scaring the animal controller off. Her black and
Gertrude L. Pew Gertrude L. Pew Gertrude L. Pew Robinson (March 25, 1876 – June 28, 1949) was an American artist who specialized in painting miniatures. Gertrude L. Pew was born in Niles, Ohio, the daughter of Frederick Horace Pew and Mary Elizabeth Tucker Pew. She trained as an artist at Cleveland School of Art, and in New York City and Paris. Gertrude L. Pew had a studio at 30 W. 57th Street in New York City. "New York has discovered a new miniature artist," commented one syndicated newspaper columnist in 1911, when Tiffany & Co. exhibited her work, crediting writer Robert W.