The Tom and Jerry feature is said to be a new iteration of the more than 100 shorts by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) back in the 1940s, which went on to win ...
Hur, which was a huge commercial and critical hit for MGM and was basically the Titanic of its day. Unfortunately, though Ben-Hur‘s success carried MGM through the decade, the studio’s overreliance on ...
On Feb. 10, 1940 — 85 years ago Monday — the first Tom & Jerry cartoon short and the first cartoon directed by the soon-to-be- famous team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera was released in ...