While the musical "Cats" premiered in 1981, the story actually goes back even further, to a 1939 book of poems by T.S. Eliot called "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats." "Old Possum" was a ...

Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons brings much-loved characters such as Skimbleshanks and Macavity to life in his reading of TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Show more On Christmas ...

and declared Billy Possum “the new national toy ... calling the 49-year-old “a remarkable woman in more respects than one, the gods having looked upon her with especial favor and partiality ...