Wednesday 28 October 2015

Hallowe'en Bear

Did you ever dress up as your favourite cartoon character and go out on that Great October 31st Candy Grab known as Hallowe’en?

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Sunday 25 October 2015

Star of Stage, Screen and Radio

When you don’t have a lot of money, what could be better than free entertainment? That’s what radio provided a Depression-coping society in 1934—and the motion picture companies wanted to get a piece of the action.

Read about Jack Benny on the air and on the big screen that year HERE.

Sunday 18 October 2015

Martha and Emily

One of the great luxuries of the Jack Benny radio show is, eventually, he and his writers developed so many secondary characters that he didn’t need to have them on every week.

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Saturday 10 October 2015

Jack Benny's Car is Goofy

Question: what famous cartoon voice actor first supplied the sounds of Jack Benny’s Maxwell?

If you guessed Mel Blanc, you’re wrong.

Read more here.