Sunday, 6 November 2016
Jack Benny Visits Texas
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A few weeks ago, we posted a review of one of Jack Benny’s seemingly innumerable benefit concerts, this one in Austin, Texas in 1966. Jack’s...
Saturday, 5 November 2016
It All Started With Box Tops
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About the only thing I wondered when I first saw The Bullwinkle Show in 1961 is why they changed the name of the show (Rocky’s name had be...
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Friday, 4 November 2016
Don Foster Sighting
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Another inside reference in a Warner Bros. cartoon, the one in Mouse-Placed Kitten (1958). Don Foster was responsible for title cards at th...
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Thursday, 3 November 2016
I'll Get By With a Twinkle in My Eye
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Margie Hines voiced Betty Boop before signing an exclusive deal with Van Beuren to provide Boop-like voices for its cartoons. She appears as...
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Wednesday, 2 November 2016
In Hollywood, If At First You Don't Succeed
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There was no bigger failure in television in the 1960s than Jerry Van Dyke. Time after time, he was handed a new series only to fail yet ag...
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Screwy Swirls
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MGM’s ink and paint department triumphs again with brushwork swirls in Screwball Squirrel (1944). Screwy yells to Meathead that he’ll save...
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Monday, 31 October 2016
Graveyard Swing
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Frames from the graveyards scenes in Swing You Sinners! (1930), one of the greatest cartoons of all time. Ted Sears and Willard Bowsky a...
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Sunday, 30 October 2016
Benny in Boston
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50 or so years ago, symphony orchestras and old theatres needed financial help, and Jack Benny was there until the day he died to bring his ...
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