Jack Benny employed a number of bandleaders during his radio days, starting with George Olsen in 1932 and ending with Bob Crosby in 1955 (th...

Walt Disney wasn’t the only cartoon studio boss who caught the attention of the press at the start of the 1930s. But he was the one who had ...

A gooney dunce lets the psychotic pincushion man into Balloon Land, resulting in his own death, in a cult cartoon by Ub Iwerks. As a bonus,...

“Be thar anyone man enough to sit in a poker game with Colonel Shuffle? Well? Be thar?” Quick pan to the left. “There be.” Bugs and t...

Jerry Hausner was blessed with a long and interesting career in entertainment, but he may have been best known for something he wasn’t. H...

Popeye beats up a whole building full of bruisers in Can You Take It —and turns one into a celebrity in the process. A mug in a suit of arm...

From Homesteader Droopy (1954): Heck Allen gets a story credit on this cartoon, but he claimed he mainly contributed by laughing at Tex’...

Here’s an unusual column about Jack Benny in that has it has nothing to do with his TV show or his violin concerts. It has to do with what h...

There was still a bit of life left in theatrical cartoons in 1959, but the attention in the first half of the year was on two features—“Slee...