{"id":8687,"date":"2017-07-27T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2017-07-27T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:52:28","slug":"were-tom-and-jerry-inspired-by-tom-and-jerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2017\/07\/27\/were-tom-and-jerry-inspired-by-tom-and-jerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Were Tom and Jerry Inspired By….Tom and Jerry?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the Movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MOVIE LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Tom and Jerry were named after a cartoon featuring human characters named Tom and Jerry that Tom and Jerry co-creator, Joe Barbera, had worked on earlier.<\/p>\n

Created for MGM in 1940 (well, technically 1941, as you’ll see later on in this story), the Tom and Jerry characters were William Hanna and Joe Barbera’s first huge hit working together, as they worked on the cartoons (which aired as film shorts) for nearly 20 years, picking up a pile of Academy Awards for their work. MGM eventually decided that it was cheaper to just re-air old cartoons than make new ones, so they shut down their entire cartoon division. <\/p>\n

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