Michael Maltese (February 6, 1908 - February 22, 1981) was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. He married his childhood sweetheart, Florence whom he called Florrie, and they had one child, Brenda, who was born and raised in California. Mike became a storyboard artist and screenwriter for Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. (known before 1944 as Leon Schlesinger Productions) from 1941 to 1961. Starting in the late 1940s, he worked exclusively with director Chuck Jones, and the two of them collaborated on classic cartoons like the Academy Award Winning "For Scent-imental Reasons" in 1949 starring Pepe Le Pew, the Skunk, which won an Oscar for Best Animated Cartoon, and the animated documentary, So Much For So Little which also won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject. Some of his earlier works included Bear Feat (1949), The Rabbit of Seville (1950), and Rabbit Fire (1951). The list goes on and on. Some of his best known cartoons are Feed the Kitty (1952), Beep, Beep (1952), Rabbit Seasoning (1952), Don't Give up the Sheep (1953), Duck Amuck (1953), Bully for Bugs (1953), Bewitched Bunny (1954) From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1954), Beanstalk Bunny (1955). And everybody's Favorite, One Froggy Evening (1955) the story of the Construction worker who finds Michigan J. Frog, the singing, dancing frog who unfortunately only sings for his owner. Some of his later cartoons were Ali Baba Bunny (1957), Robin Hood Daffy (1958) and of course What's Opera Doc? (1957) and Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953). Mike also collaborated with Jones on the 1960s TV cartoon show Tom and Jerry. From 1958 until 1970, he also worked at Hanna-Barbera Productions on television cartoons such as The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Flintstones, and The Jetsons. Jump to: navigation, search February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Storyboards are illustrations displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing an animated or live-action film. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ... Jump to: navigation, search The WB Shield used from 1998 to present day Warner Bros. ... Leon Schlesinger (1884 - December 25, 1949) was a producer at the Warner Bros. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ... Charles Martin Chuck Jones (September 21, 1912–February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Brothers cartoon studio. ... A still from Whats Opera, Doc?. Whats Opera, Doc? is a 1957 short animated film directed by Chuck Jones in which Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny through a six-minute operatic production of Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). ... Duck Dodgers is the fictional star of a series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. ... The phrase Tom and Jerry has several meanings: Tom and Jerry was originally a pairing of names from Pierce Egans Life in London, or Days and Nights of Jerry Hawthorne and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ... Huckleberry Hound is a fictional cartoon character created by Hanna-Barbera, and the star of the late 1950s animated series The Huckleberry Hound Show, Hanna-Barberas second series made for television after The Ruff & Reddy Show. ... The Flintstones, a Hanna-Barbera animated series, is one of the most successful animated television series of all time, originally running in American prime time for six seasons, from 1960 to 1966, on the ABC network. ... The Jetsons was an animated prime-time television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1962 to 1963. ...