Editing Fred Quimby (section)

==Life and career==
Quimby was born in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]],<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVeK2elZxTcC&dq=Fred+Quimby+was+born+in+Minnesota&pg=PA158 | isbn=9781461664024 | title=The a to Z of Animation and Cartoons | date=April 2010 | publisher=Scarecrow Press }}</ref> and started his career as a journalist. In 1907, he managed a film theater in [[Missoula, Montana]]. Later, he worked at [[Pathé]], and became a member of the board of directors before leaving in 1921 to become an independent producer. He was hired by [[Fox Film]] in 1924, and moved to MGM in 1927 to head its short features department. In 1937, he was assigned to create MGM's animation department.<ref name = lafn/><ref name="BarberaAutoBio">{{cite book|last=Barbera|first=Joseph|title=My Life in "Toons": From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century|year=1994|publisher=[[Turner Publishing]]|location=Atlanta, GA|isbn=1-57036-042-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb}}</ref>{{rp|65}}

In 1939, [[William Hanna]] and [[Joseph Barbera]] presented Quimby with a proposal for a series of cartoons featuring a cat and a mouse. Although he had no interest in the idea, Quimby approved,<ref name=lafn>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lafn.org/~snakebite/tomandjerry/creators.html |title=Lafn.org |website=www.lafn.org |accessdate=June 29, 2021}}</ref> and the result was ''[[Puss Gets the Boot]]'', which was nominated for an [[Academy Award]]. Initially, he refused to pursue more Cat and Mouse cartoons after ''Puss Gets the Boot''. However, following the critical and financial success of that cartoon, he agreed to make ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' an official cartoon of the MGM cartoon studio.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} As producer, Quimby became a multiple recipient of the [[Academy Award for Animated Short Film]] for the ''Tom and Jerry'' films, though he never invited Hanna and Barbera onstage when he accepted the awards. His name became well known due to its prominence in the cartoon credits, and Quimby took sole credit for approving and producing the ''Tom and Jerry'' series.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} Quimby was not involved in the creative process and had a difficult relationship with animators, including Hanna and Barbera, who believed that Quimby was not fit for a real animation leader:

{{cquote|...unfortunately for a cartoon producer, [he had] no sense of humor to call upon... He knew nothing of animation and cartoons were a strange thing to him. Cast in the role of high school principal opposite the animators' boyish enthusiasms, he acted as liaisons between them and the front office, usually it seemed, turning down requests for bigger budgets, raises and special dispensations of funds.<ref>[http://www.tomandjerryonline.com/synopsis.cfm Tom and Jerry Online]. Similar opinions are expressed elsewhere, e.g. [http://www.animationshow.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1766 here] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517132823/http://www.animationshow.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1766 |date=May 17, 2011 }}.</ref>}}

After the production of ''Good Will to Men'' (a remake of ''[[Peace on Earth (film)#Remake|Peace on Earth]]''), Quimby retired from MGM in May 1955, with Hanna and Barbera assuming his role as co-heads of the studio and taking over the production title for the ''Tom and Jerry'' shorts. Despite the success with Hanna and Barbera, MGM assumed that re-releasing old cartoons would be more profitable, and the MGM's cartoon division did not last long after; it was closed in 1957. MGM would later contract first [[Gene Deitch]] and then [[Chuck Jones]] to produce more ''Tom and Jerry'' shorts through their own studios during the 1960s.

Quimby died of a [[heart attack]] in [[Santa Monica, California]] on September 16, 1965, about seven weeks after his 79th birthday, and was buried at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]] in [[Glendale, California]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&q=fred+quimby+1965+buried&pg=PA608|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|first=Scott|last=Wilson|date=August 22, 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786479924|access-date=June 29, 2021|via=Google Books}}</ref>