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Mouse Trouble
Mouse Trouble is a 1944 American one-reel animated cartoon short and is the 17th "Tom and Jerry" short produced by Fred Quimby. It was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with music direction by Scott Bradley The cartoon was animated by Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Ken Muse and Pete Burness. "Mouse Trouble" won the 1944 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, the second consecutive award bestowed upon the series. It was released in theatres on November 23, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn
in the studio's Hanna-Barbera unit, he occasionally provided animation for Tex Avery's unit (as well as Avery's substitute director Dick Lundy). He worked on several Academy Award-winning animation shorts: "Mouse Trouble" (1944), "Quiet Please!" (1945), "The Little Orphan" (1948), and "Johann Mouse" (1952).
Career Grantray-Lawrence Animation.
Patterson left MGM in 1954 to co-found (with former MGM colleague Grant Simmons)