If there was anyone who owed his career to Jack Benny, it’s Dennis Day. Don Wilson was a big-time network sports announcer before being hir...

An animator getting paid the same as a bank president? Really? That unusual theory was propounded in one of a number of newspaper featur...

Jerry leaps into the air in A Mouse in the House (1947). Some random frames (Jerry is on ones). Don Patterson and Dick Bickenbach join K...

The Van Beuren studio wanted to make good cartoons. I really think they did. The studio put out money to buy established properties—and that...

One of the segments in the early part of each week’s Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In was the cocktail party, where some of the players would ap...

The First Bad Man (from the cartoon of the same name) scares away homesteaders. This being set in the Stone Age, the homesteaders live in a ...

The establishing shot of Bell Hoppy , released in 1954, starts with a quick pan down a background drawing by Dick Thomas. Director Bob McKim...

There were two Canadian singers associated with Jack Benny over the years. One was Gisele Mackenzie, who appeared on stage with him in Las V...

“I’ll try you on one cartoon,” Leon Schlesinger told Tex Avery, who was bumming around looking for a job after Walter Lantz let him go. And ...

Remember the Tex Avery cartoon House of Tomorrow ? Tommy Morrison at Terrytoons did. He grabbed the concept, complete with narrator, juice...