By the 1960s, Walter Winchell’s name evoked the past. He had been hired to narrate “The Untouchables,” a TV show set in the 1920s, because h...

Ah, those subversive trade unionists at Warner Bros! Irv Wyner fits in a reference to the Screen Cartoonists Guild’s Hollywood local in the ...

Fred Allen didn’t have a real feud with Jack Benny or any other radio comedian. But he didn’t hold back about the ones whose acts he didn’t ...

“The drinks are on the house,” says narrator Frank Graham. “The drinks are on the house,” repeats wolfie Frank Graham. And we see everyone i...

Cartoons of early 1930s are a land of bizarre sight gags. Plot? Who cares! Look at the warped stuff going on. Here’s an example from “The ...

There appears to have been a preponderance of newspaper interviews by a pyjama-clad Jack Benny during the latter years of his life. This on...

Once sound came in, the big movie studios all had cartoons as part of their release schedule. The Poverty Row studios didn’t—with one except...

Paul Julian liked inserting names of staff members in backgrounds of a number of cartoons he made for Friz Freleng’s unit at Warners, and a ...

Mike Lah inherited Tex Avery’s Droopy and southern drawling wolf when he was handed a unit at the MGM cartoon studio. But he and designer/la...

A hundred years ago, people played parlour games at home. So what’s wrong with doing the same thing on television? That’s the question I p...