Did Art Davis get stuck with more one-shot cartoons than the other Warners directors? It seems that way to me. Maybe it’s because he was onl...

Skeletons abound in Ub Iwerks’ Spooks , a Flip the Frog short. One gag features a skeleton dog who, quite logically, has a skeleton flea th...

The start of the 1935-36 radio season brought some changes to the Jack Benny show and, as it turned out, they weren’t permanent. The progra...

The man in the photo to your right is the creator of Bugs Bunny. Well, he said he was. This may confuse you because the man doesn’t look l...

A perky score and a string of gags pretty much describes Bosko at the Zoo , a 1932 effort by director Hugh Harman and his animators for Warn...

“Its entertainment value is attested by the fact that it began its theatrical distribution by playing the Paramount Theatre, on Broadway in ...

Agnes Moorehead’s name isn’t one you associate with ditzy dames. But that was her typecasting at one time. Yes, it was long before Bewitch...

Walt Disney wasn’t quite into “illusion of life” in 1929. Witness how, in El Terrible Toreador , the cantina waitress has balls for hands. ...

Tex Avery of 1944 at MGM referred to Tex Avery of 1941 at Warner Bros. In Of Fox and Hounds , a fox cons Willoughby the dog into jumping ov...

The Louisiana State Fair. Expo ’67. The Ronald Reagan Inaugural Concert. What do they have in common? Jack Benny. He performed at all of ...