On January 7, 1945, a call for passengers was heard for the first time: “Train leaving on Track Five for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga!” It w...

Walter Lantz constantly cried to the trade papers about the small sums of money that exhibitors wanted to pay for his cartoons. In a way, yo...

In 1947, there was television, but there wasn’t television. There were about a dozen stations scattered across the U.S. and no hook-up betw...

Hollywood made a couple of movies about Al Jolson and one about Eddie Cantor. It’s a shame it didn’t do the same thing with Jimmy Durante. ...

Jack Benny’s final movie got more mileage on his radio and TV shows than it ever did on the big screen. To hear Benny’s characters talk abou...

There are few people who appeared in adult roles on the Jack Benny radio show still with us, and Doris Singleton was one until this past wee...

The idea that “radio people can’t act on camera” is ludicrous, considering how many radio people made the jump (not that they had much choic...

W.C. Fields was one of filmdom’s most talented and iconoclastic stars. His movies were little more than short comedy scenes linked together ...

A couple of months ago, we posted about George Pal, maker of the imaginative Puppetoons released by Paramount in the 1940s. I’ve dug out ano...

Nostalgia tells us World War Two was a fun time in Hollywood. The stars were entertaining “our boys” overseas, with a happy collective camar...

“I Love Lucy” was not only the most popular show on television at one time, it was a groundbreaking one which influences the industry to thi...