Emergency! Crisis in radio’s top-ranked show! In 1936, Jack Benny was number one in radio listener opinion polls. That satisfied just about...

It took a little time, but newspaper columnists slowly discovered a cartoon series starring a moose and a squirrel bathed in send-ups and pu...

In the war years, Tex Avery and Bob Clampett were known for large takes. Frank Tashlin tried it on occasion, too—the sexually-laden ram’s ho...

One of the big baseball stories of 1946-47, besides Jackie Robinson breaking the race barrier, was the attempt by the Mexican League to raid...

There are vast numbers of Americans, it seems, who love sentiment mixed with patriotism. And there are people who are adept at dishing it ou...

Tex Avery and writer Heck Allen find a convenient way to end The Screwy Truant (1945). At the start of the cartoon, Screwy calls kids goin...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit disappears for about half a cartoon in The Quail Hunt (1935). Perhaps he wanted to avoid being connected to this so...

Tex Avery enjoyed a left-to-right pan over a background drawing whenever it fit in with one of his cartoons, both at Warners and MGM. That’...

Ross Bagdasarian got a lot of mileage out of a novelty record. In 1958, he assumed the guise of David Seville and, with his voice sped up a...

Jack Benny was born on this date in 1894 (insert your own “39” joke here) and through his TV years, columnists found a way of marking it. ...