A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including: George Thorogood, Tom Petty, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

In 1963, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contracted with Sib Tower 12 to have Jones and his staff produce new Tom and Jerry cartoons as well as a Television adaptation of all Tom and Jerry theatricals produced to that date.

As the Tom and Jerry series wound down ( it would be discontinued in 1967 ), Jones produced more for television.

* Tom and Jerry ( cartoon shorts, 1963 – 1967 )

In the 1973 National League Championship Series, the Reds met a New York Mets team that won just 82 regular season games, but boasted three of the best starting pitchers in the NL, future Hall of Famer Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman and Jon Matlack.

Lloyd Carr, former head coach at the University of Michigan, former NFL coach Jerry Glanville, and Steve Mariucci, former head coach of the Detroit Lions, played football for NMU, and current Michigan State coach Tom Izzo played basketball at NMU.

Among these are Flåklypa Grand Prix, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Wallace and Gromit, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Way Things Go, Edward Scissorhands, Back to the Future, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Goonies, Gremlins, the Saw film series, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Cat from Outer Space, Malcolm, Family Guy, American Dad !, and Waiting ...

They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957 and had their first success with the minor hit " Hey, Schoolgirl ".

They were classmates at Parsons Junior High School and Forest Hills High School, and began performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis ( whose last name he borrowed from a girl he had been dating ) and Garfunkel as Tom Graph ( so called because he was fond of tracking (" graphing ") hits on the pop charts ).

This album consisted of ten tracks recorded from the late 1950s and early 1960s while the duo still called themselves Tom & Jerry, including their hit " Hey, Schoolgirl ", and its B-side, " Dancin ' Wild ".

Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.

Tom and Jerry also may refer to:

* The Tom and Jerry Show ( 1975 TV series )

* The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, a 1980 television series

* Tom and Jerry: The Movie, a 1993 feature film

* Tom and Jerry ( video game ), a video game

* Tom & Jerry Kids, a 1990 television series

* Tom and Jerry Tales, a 2005 television series

* 1940 – Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman

* 1940 – Tom Farmer, Scottish businessman

* 1880 – Tom Mix, American actor ( d. 1940 )

** Tom Baker, American actor ( b. 1940 )

* January 6 – Tom Mix, American actor ( d. 1940 )

Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE ( born 7 June 1940 ), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.

He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl.

Fonda's successes led Ford to recruit him to play " Tom Joad " in the film version of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ).

* Tom Harmon, 1940 Heisman Trophy winner

* Tom Brokaw, television journalist and author ( b. 1940 in Webster, SD )

Hanna and Barbera also produced / directed for MGM cartoon studio half a dozen one-shot theatrical shorts besides Tom and Jerry series, including Gallopin ' Gals ( 1940 ), Officer Pooch ( 1941 ), War Dogs ( 1943 ) and Good Will to Men ( 1955 ).

The case served as inspiration for numerous works, including Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son, Tom Kalin's 1992 film Swoon, Michael Haneke's 1997 film Funny Games ( and an American shot-for-shot remake in 2008 ); Barbet Schroeder's Murder by Numbers ( 2002 ); Stephen Dolginoff's 2005 Off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story ; and various TV episodes ( including on Law & Order SVU ).

Thomas John " Tom " Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940 ) is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004.

* Tom Brown's School Days ( 1940 ), portraying educator Thomas Arnold

She married producer Tom Lewis in 1940 and they divorced very bitterly in the mid 1960s.

* Tom Brown ( American football / baseball ) ( born 1940 ), former NFL player and MLB outfielder / first baseman

He has been played several times in adaptations of Tom Brown's School Days, including by Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the 1940 version, Iain Cuthbertson in the 1971 version and Stephen Fry in the 2005 version.

* Tom Mix ( 1880 – 1940 ), American film actor

In 1936, a short animated version directed by Ub Iwerks was released, and in 1940 another animated version by Chuck Jones called Tom Thumb in Trouble.

* Tom Cooper ( footballer ) ( 1904 – 1940 ), England international footballer

Jordan appeared ( as " Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom ") in Warner's Damon Runyon comedy A Slight Case of Murder ( 1938 ), and at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Young Tom Edison ( 1940 ).

It is also sung in the 1940 movie, Tom Brown's School Days.

The name Fitzrovia was recorded in print for the first time by Tom Driberg MP in the William Hickey gossip column of the Daily Express in 1940.

Ex-Communist and Spanish Civil War veteran Tom Wintringham, a journalist and key advocate of the LDV and later the Home Guard, opened a private training camp for the LDV at Osterley Park, outside London, in early July 1940.