Even when she wasn’t an adult, it seems Connie Francis was an adult. In mid-1954, Francis was 16 and appearing on ABC’s Saturday night Star...

Andy Panda’s dad tries to blow up a pesky, unnamed woodpecker with sex in Knock Knock (1940). His bait: a time bomb inside a mechanical fem...

The witch in the Fractured Fairy Tales version of “Hansel and Gretel” has only one power. She can turn boys into aardvarks. She agrees to c...

Normally, these Sunday Theatre posts involve a short film. We’re switching it up this time because a) I haven’t written nearly enough abou...

Perhaps it was the vaudevillian in him, but Jack Benny always liked being on stage. Yes, there was an audience in front of him in the rad...

The eyes rolled again. Young me boo-ed at the television screen. I had just finished watching Mr. Magoo misread a sign and mistake somethin...

What cartoon starred a duck that had to deal with a changing background behind him? Duck Amuck , you say? Well, that’s one answer. But 15 y...

A “scream bomb” lives up to its name in Tex Avery’s Blitz Wolf . Note the ghost multiples to make the movement faster. Animation is ...

He was the conductor of the Hollywood Baby Orchestra in late 1930 at age six. Newspapers around that time shaved what few years they could o...

Vultures on the Mohave Desert think they are going to eat Mighty Mouse in Triple Trouble (1948). Foolish vultures. Haven’t they seen a Migh...