Jimmy Durante used to start off his radio show musically growling “Ya Gotta Start Out Each Day With a Song.” It’s an enthusiastic, optimisti...

I’m not quite sure why Tex Avery and Heck Allen decided to have the wolf (who raises cattle) put his hat into the air on a stick. It can’t b...

Quick cuts, a moving camera and perspective animation give Porky Pig a different feel in Mouse Menace , one of Art Davis’ early directorial ...

Jack Benny may have pretended to be 39 on TV, but his show business career began long before he really was 39. He was a teenager when he was...

In the 1930s, we had Popeye and Betty Boop. In the 1940s, we had Bugs Bunny and a slew of characters from the lightboards at Warner Bros. In...

A little elf tries to hammer in a nail to the strains of “Tales of the Vienna Woods” in Friz Freleng’s Holiday for Shoestrings . Note the sm...

What imaginative cartoon released in 1940 featured a cat, a mouse and a wild chase? “Puss Gets the Boot” you say? Nah, we’re not talking abo...