TV IN SIGHT by Murray Olderman

TV IN SIGHT was a weekly series of cartoon features created by the popular newspaper sports columnist and cartoonist/caricaturist Murray Olderman. Each installment highlighted a different television show or special during the 1959-60 TV season. The images, beautifully rendered by Olderman, (drawn on coquille board with pen, brush and Prismacolor black pencil), were distributed by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) to local newspapers across the country to be used in their TV sections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Olderman

Hollywood Homes of Comedians Postcards

see just where the movie & television comedians called home. Vintage Hollywood "Homes of the Stars' postcards from the 1920's-50's...

Abbott & Costello

Jack Benny

Bob Hope

Burns & Allen

Charlie Chaplin

Danny Thomas

Jimmy Durante

Groucho Marx

Harold Lloyd

Jack Lemmon

Jerry Lewis

Joe E. Brown

Milton Berle

Buster Keaton

Lucille Ball & Desi Arnez

Red Skelton

Eddie Cantor

Will Rogers

Eddie Rochester Anderson

Toot's Shor's Bar by Willard Mullin

In the 1940's, The New York World-Telegram and Sun sports cartoonist Willard Mullin painted this beautiful tribute to his regular hang-out, the legendary Toot's Shor's circular bar. He featured many of the regulars including Joe E. Lewis and Joe DiMaggio, the giant saloon keeper Toots himself (in the foreground) with his tiny wife "Baby" and various newspaper journalists, columnists, sportswriters and fellow cartoonists:

                                thanks to Mike Lynch, Tom Stemmle & K. Bidus

All of Frank Fontaine's album covers

             
                all of the album covers of Frank Fontaine, aka Crazy Guggenheim

Jack Davis's Sergeants 3 poster art

Sergeants 3 was a 1962 remake of "Gunga Din" featuring the 5 members of The Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.

The original fun poster image was created by the great illustrator Jack Davis a year before his iconic "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" poster,  but for some unknown reason, finally not used. Instead it was used for the films publicity, promotional handouts, ("slicks"), newspaper ads, and for several of the foreign posters for the film.

Here's the original, rarely seen (entire) Jack Davis Image:

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the Spanish poster using a portion of the Davis art

and an ad using the entire image

thanks to Jerry Beck & Mark Newgarden