The Little Orphan

This article is about the Tom and Jerry cartoon. For the silent film, see The Little Orphan (1917 film).
The Little Orphan
The title card of The Little Orphan, featuring the Oscar
Directed byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Story byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Produced byFred Quimby
StarringWilliam Hanna
(as Tom and Jerry)
Music byScott Bradley
Animation byIrven Spence
Kenneth Muse
Ed Barge
Ray Patterson
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • April 30, 1949 (1949-04-30)
Running time
7:50
Languagenone (text in English)

The Little Orphan is a 1949 American one-reel animated cartoon and the 40th Tom and Jerry cartoon, released in theaters on April 30, 1949 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.[1] It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge and Ray Patterson. The short features Nibbles, a young mouse who is insatiably hungry.[2]

The Little Orphan won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, the fifth Oscar (of seven) given to Tom and Jerry.[citation needed] Though the cartoon was released in 1949, it won its Oscar the previous year, tying them with Disney's Silly Symphonies with the record of the most Oscars.

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  2. ^ Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Studio. p. 31. ISBN 978-0670829781. Retrieved 2 June 2020.