Mouse Trouble

Mouse Trouble
1951 theatrical reissue poster.
Production company	MGM Cartoons
Distributor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	November 23, 1944
Run time	7:28
Starring	William Hanna Sara Berner
Producer(s)	Fred Quimby
Music composed by	Scott Bradley
Screenplay by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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Mouse Trouble is the seventeenth animated theatrical short of the Tom and Jerry series. It was released on November 23, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby, and written and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Tom follows a help book in catching Jerry.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Mailman	N/A
Tom Cat	William Hanna Harry E. Lang
Jerry Mouse	William Hanna

Locations

• Mammy Two-Shoes's residence

Objects

• How to Catch a Mouse
• Girl mouse toy (Sara Berner)
• Block Buster

Vehicles

• None

Music

The music was composed by Scott Bradley.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 23, 1944; December 15, 1951 (rerelease)

Behind the scenes

• How to Catch a Mouse is "A Random Mouse Book", which is a parody of Random House books.
• Tom dying at the end is the first time a main character dies on-screen.

Everlasting influence

• Tom reads about this short in Jerry's diary (with accompanying flashbacks) in the aptly named short Jerry's Diary. He marked it May 12, Thursday.
• In the live-action film Tom & Jerry, Jerry redoes the gag where he tricks Tom into thinking he's hiding something in his hands so he can punch Tom in the eye.

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient	Result
Academy Award	March 15, 1945	Best Short Subject: Cartoons	Fred Quimby	Won