Eshbaugh's Cartoons of Many Colours

For a brief period in 1932, Ted Eshbaugh was in the animation spotlight, but it wasn’t because of his animation.

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Not Really 10 Years of Benny

There seems to have been a problem when it came to Jack Benny and adding years.

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Marvin Kaplan, T.C. and Flunking English

How does one become a Choo Choo? Here’s how Marvin Kaplan put it.

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Selling Oswald

Walter Lantz had a long association with Universal Studios, but it was not always a happy one.

See several stories here, including a 1936 article about Oswald.

Unbothered Benny

To hear the fan magazines talk, Jack Benny lived a pretty unexciting life.

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Not Terrific

The mid-1960s were a time of painfully unfunny comedies. I should know. I watched most of them when they first aired.

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Elva

Of her, Jimmy Durante said “She put considerable more Inka and not enough Dinka but whattaya gonna do.”

Read about Mrs. Miller here.