![]() ![]() In 2005, MGM co-finance The Brothers Grimm with Walt Disney Pictures/Miramax Films under the Dimension Films label. According to Roy, they had no business making cartoons for other people. According to Bob Thomas's book on Roy Disney, the studio was in debt after World War II and they were focusing on trying to get their own films out on time. Some sources claim Walt Disney initially agreed to loan out Mickey, but Roy Disney rejected the deal. Originally, Mickey Mouse was going to dance with Gene Kelly for "The Worry Song" segment in the 1945 film, Anchors Aweigh. The other two were released by MGM as part of their Happy Harmonies series. Of the three, Disney only kept "Merbabies". Walt Disney Productions contracted out the production of three Silly Symphony shorts - " Merbabies", "Pipe Dreams", and "The Little Bantamweight" - to Harman-Ising Productions. Mickey Mouse appeared in a 1934 MGM film, Hollywood Party, where he harassed Jimmy Durante and introduced the TechniColor cartoon, The Hot Chocolate Soldiers. Quimby turned down the offers Walt gave him and MGM. He took Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film reels and showed them to Fred Quimby. ![]() In 1928, Walt Disney attempted to strike a distribution deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer since he was having issues with Winkler Pictures and its head, Charles Mintz, over the then- Universal Pictures-owned Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short film series. ![]()
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