A streetcar carries Duck Twacy to the gangster hideout in The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946). Neon signs and search lights give him some d...

“Why, you’re a living cake of soap,” exclaims young Billy Martin to double-exposed footage of a guy in a soap outfit. The rest of Soapy the...

Jack Benny’s radio show made stops outside of Los Angeles after moving there from New York in the mid-1930s. It even returned to New York, e...

Walt Disney had been praised in the 1930s (with some help from his publicists) for the creation of Mickey Mouse and his foray into feature-l...

“What will the audience least expect” was the Tex Avery credo. And he pulled it off in cartoon after cartoon after cartoon. An example star...

Most sitcom moms, way-back-when, dealt with their child’s problems. One dealt with more than that. She dealt with a dog and with a robot. A...

Jack Benny’s radio show began in New York, but when the film capital beckoned, he packed up and moved to Los Angeles. He and his cast made p...

A lot of people love Don Knotts. It would seem a cinch, therefore, that being hired to be part of the cast of his variety show would mean fa...

Tex Avery and writer Heck Allen set up a premise and use variations of it throughout Red Hot Rangers (MGM, 1947). George and Junior try to ...

Tex Avery gets credit for picking up the pace of theatrical cartoons in the 1940s, but the artists at MGM were quite capable of fast action ...