Jack Benny’s radio show had plenty of secondary characters, many of them played by the most in-demand actors on the air in the west. People ...

Between the time she was Dennis Day’s mother and Fred Flintstone’s mother-in-law, Verna Felton was the comedy highlight of a TV show starrin...

Today’s quiz—what was the first television sitcom starring a woman? “I Love Lucy” (1951) might come to mind. Maybe “The Goldbergs” (1949). ...

She was the mother who cared so much for her son, she’d turn to his employer and bellow “Ah, shaddup!” Verna Felton was perfectly cast as ...