Tom & Jerry is one of those worldwide recognizable cartoon duos that made our child so entertaining. Most of us remember the lion roaring before the cartoon starts; let’s talk about him. The lion was named as Tanner and appeared in all Technicolor films and MGM cartoons by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a Hollywood film studio.
Tanner was not the only lion that worked for MGM, the studio has a long established relationship with the loins. The logo was, for the first time, faced with the lion named Slats that was used for the first MGM version and for the original Goldwyn Pictures design. He was the one that roared quietly at the beginnings of MGM's silent films.
Jackie, the next lion, was the first MGM lion with an audible roar in the movie. He introduced MGM’s first talking movie, White Shadows on the South Seas.
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| Director Bill WATSON with MGM Leo (Jackie) in 1928 |
Telly and Coffee were the two lions that were briefly used in the Technicolor tests but had very short-lived careers.
The fifth & probably most famous lion was known as Tanner that was used throughout the golden age of Hollywood.
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1932-1935 Technicolor test (Coffee)
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The fifth & probably most famous lion was known as Tanner that was used throughout the golden age of Hollywood.
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| Tanner, 1934-1956 MGM Loin |
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| 1956-58 (Lion George) |
Followed by the brief reign of the sixth lion, George, MGM selected Leo the Lion in 1957. Leo, the seventh loin, is the longest serving loin of MGM. He was also the youngest among all the lions when MGM filmed his roar.
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Alfred Hitchcock and Leo
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It was an extremely challenging task to film a lion for the original logo.
In 1965, as an effort to update its image, MGM employed Lippincott to create a more modern logo. The result was called “The Stylized Lion,” and it was seen at the front of three movies in the 1960s, including Grand Prix (1966), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and The Subject Was Roses (1968).
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| MGM still logo |
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