Laughter comes naturally.And as the protagonists — the eternally beloved Tom and Jerry — turn 85, isn’t it a fine excuse to ...

When MGM asked for more cat-and-mouse shorts, Hanna and Barbera held an in-house contest to rename the characters. Animator John Carr won $50 for his suggestion of Tom and Jerry. At one point in ...

It begins, as it always has, with a chase. A cat, a mouse and, inevitably, chaos. Suddenly, you are seven again, smiling at ...

A contest was held among MGM's animation workers, and the winning name was, well, of course, Tom and Jerry. As I noted in the linked Movie Legends Revealed: Animator Jack Carr won the contest.

In 1986, MGM was taken over by CNN founder Ted Turner, and 10 years later, Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) was itself taken over by Time Warner. Thus, the rights to Tom and Jerry have been held ...

A cartoon cat, sick of the annoying mouse living in his home, devises a plot to take him out with a trap loaded with cheese. The mouse, wise to his plan, safely removes the snack and saunters away ...

Although the cat versus mouse idea had been used before in cartoons, Tom And Jerry had a combination of elements that made them a hit. MGM had set up its animation studio under Fred Quimby in 1937.

They will be starting fresh on the new iteration of the misadventures of the cat Tom and mouse Jerry, hatched in 1940 by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera at MGM. Until MGM shuttered its animation ...

Top of that list is the musical accompaniment to Tom and Jerry, which was expertly brought to musical life by MGM’s resident cartoon composer Scott Bradley. This sensational live performance, recorded ...