John Brown’s hipster tells John Brown’s Noah Webster he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Webster tries to imagine it. So comes ...

Overnight successes are generally people who have been around the entertainment business a lot longer than overnight before getting cast in ...

Johnny Johnsen has a few long backgrounds in MGM’s Out-Foxed (released in 1949), including a painting with overlays that opens the cartoon ...

The greatness of the early Tom and Jerry cartoons relied on a number of things. One of them was the expressiveness of the characters. Audien...

Mel Blanc enjoyed fishing. And, like a fish story, Blanc’s tale of how he came to be hired by the Leon Schlesinger cartoon studio grew and c...

John Sutherland Productions quite happily aligned itself with big business and its anti-big government, anti-Communist sentiments in a numbe...

Here’s Friz Freleng’s dilemma. He had to make cartoons out of Warner Bros-owned songs. In 1935, Mort Dixon and Allie Wrubel wrote “The Lady...

In Pup on a Picnic (1953), Tom tries to distract Spike the bulldog with a wiener by pretending it’s a stick to be fetched. The ruse work...

You need an Italian with a stereotypical-ah accent-ah? Who do you hire? Why, someone from California, of course. In the case of one actor,...