About ten years ago, Noel Neill and Jack Larson talked with a reporter for the Los Angeles Times about typecasting. Both of them knew about...

How good was radio to Jack Benny? Just before he debuted on his own show in May 1932 he was making $2,000 a week in vaudeville. After exposu...

Those of us who weren’t around in the glory days of network radio had two ways to hear old broadcasts—either through nostalgia programmes on...

Critical acclaim and fame came to Bob Clampett in the 1950s, but not because of the cartoons he had made for Warner Bros. several years earl...

Julius the cat realises he has somehow put on Alice’s underwear at the start of Alice’s Tin Pony , a 1925 Disney film. He shows his emba...

A lucky horseshoe proves to be unlucky for the menacing bulldog in Tex Avery’s Bad Luck Blackie . The dog tosses the horseshoe over his shou...

Jimmy Durante’s career was reborn on March 25, 1943. That’s when he teamed for the first time with Garry Moore on radio. The two were an ove...

Some frames from “Dough Ray Me-ow,” a fun cartoon by Art Davis and his unit at Warner Bros. Louie the parrot tries to kill Heathcliff the ...

For a while in the early 1950s, some of the animation in the Walter Lantz looked like it came from Terrytoons. Thick ink lines, cross-eyes, ...