[1] It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with music by Scott Bradley.

The two mice climb onto the table, and Nibbles begins to take bites of all kinds of food, exposing himself to risks Jerry has to rescue him from.

Tom, seeing the mice getting into the Thanksgiving dinner, puts on a feather duster, first as a general camouflage, then as a Native American headdress.

Sneaking back to the table, Tom sets a bowl of cattails on fire one at a time, throwing them like spears.

Then he cuts a cork off a champagne bottle, which rockets at Tom and launches him into a cabinet, destroying it and all the dishes inside.

As per every short of Tom and Jerry during its first two decades, The Little Orphan was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with its score composed by Scott Bradley.

The short is produced by Fred Quimby and animated by Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, with layouts done by Richard Bickenbach.

Ben Simon of Animated Views considered the short as "a great example of a cat and mouse cartoon working well on all levels".