The Palace in New York may have been the desirable destination for many a vaudevillian, but it was just one stop on the prestigious Keith Or...

In 1950, a local newspaper staff writer named Erma Bombeck told readers about alumni artists from Stivers High School in Dayton. First on th...

Thanks to DVDs (and Blu-Rays), it’s easy for the animation fan to stop a cartoon and look at an individual frame. The Fleischers did this fo...

Heir Conditioned (1955) opens with a left-to-right pan over an Irv Wyner background. In case you are wondering who wrote this cartoon, o...

When you think of Gale Gordon, you think of someone who explodes over the latest antic of Lucille Ball. Because they appeared regularly tog...

Director Don Patterson found a different way to transition from one scene to the next in Under the Counter Spy , a 1954 Woody Woodpecker car...

The city wolf spends a good portion of Little Rural Riding Hood trying, with absolutely no success, to get his country cousin wolf to stop ...

One of the many running jokes on the Jack Benny radio show was singer Dennis Day had two shows (and that somehow made him—“HA!”—superior). ...