You remember that cartoon where Wile E. Coyote tip-toed from right to left carrying something, giving a knowing side look to the camera befo...

Mickey Mouse encounters skeletons galore in The Haunted House (1929). In fact, he plays the organ for them as they dance and use bones to p...

For every Ron Howard, who people watched as a young child and followed his show business career into adulthood, there are a bunch of Muriel ...

Violent gestures highlighted the early Foghorn Leghorn cartoons in the late 1940s before everything at Warner Bros. became fairly sedate. H...

“The Boy Scout Book says never stand under a tree in a lightning storm,” Droopy informs Spike in Droopy’s Good Deed . Lightning happily obli...

Jack Benny was ridiculously cheap on the air. That was the idea. Ridiculous equals laughs. The real Benny was generous, partly because he w...

George Pal had a reputation amongst the cognoscenti when he arrived in North America from Europe in early 1938. His stop-motion films had be...

Attitudes change with the times and conditions. In the Depression-era cartoon When My Ship Comes In , Betty Boop gives away her $1,000,000 w...