Dick Crenna easily made two transitions during his career, transitions that proved difficult or unattainable for other actors. Crenna made ...

He’s hyper. He’s paranoid. He has bent wrists. He slurps all the time. He’s a weasel. And he gets a good slapping from the barnyard dog in “...

Ray Patterson? Irv Spence? Hack animators, pure and simple. They never came close to the wit and charm of a drawing like this: No, I can’...

It’s hard to think of Jack Benny with any other announcer but Don Wilson. And it’s hard to think of Don Wilson being anything but a jolly, o...

When the time of year for candy egg hunts and chocolate bunnies rolls around, cartoon fans rush to talk about Bob McKimson’s “Easter Yeggs” ...

What do Jonathan Swift, Morey Amsterdam and little people wearing huge dog heads have in common? The answer is Cal Howard. Howard had t...

In the early 1950s, announcers on radio programmes would say something like “This show was transcribed for broadcast at this more convenient...

Orange and shades on either side of orange dominate the Friz Freleng cartoon “Crows’ Feat” (1961). And since we’re into the 1960s, stylisat...

Dream sequences give good cartoonists a chance to use their imaginations, and “Felix Dines and Pines” is no exception. Felix has a nightmare...

Show people had some dandy feuds. Some weren’t real—Jack Benny and Fred Allen, for instance. Some were professional—Parsons and Winchell, fo...