Who knew Betty White could act? Through the 1960s and into the ‘70s, I didn’t. I never saw her on anything but game shows. Back then TV Gu...

There’s an enjoyable little twist in the opening titles of Tall in the Trap , a 1962 Tom and Jerry Western directed by Gene Deitch. There’s ...

In the 1960s, New York City had a small collection of actors who used their voices to make a living in cartoons and commercials. Allen Swift...

You should recognise one person’s name in the newspaper clipping to the right from April 22, 1933. That’s when she was in the San Francisco ...

The opening of The Village Smithy , a 1936 Warner Bros. cartoon, contains some of the elements that director Tex Avery would use throughout...

The thespian dog’s “great inner strength” makes him survive being pushed down a mountain in a baby carriage by the two polite gophers. Or s...

In show biz, money talks. And here’s what money was saying in 1932. In the March 8th edition of Variety that year, it was revealed Jack B...

Crusader Rabbit didn’t appear on television until July 15, 1950, but newspaper readers got a sneak peak at him a year earlier. The St. Lou...

Tom thinks he’s been shot by a bird in Kitty Foiled (it’s really Jerry dropping a light, which makes a gunshot sound when it hits the groun...

No one was making new cars in the U.S. in 1945. There was a war on, after all. Well, that doesn’t include Tex Avery, who united with writer...