Bluto Buster and The Blob

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>BLUTO BUSTER AND THE BLOB is the first in a series of three volumes of interviews with actors actresses directors and cartoon animators primarily from Hollywood's Golden Age. Old-time radio announcer and actor Jackson Beck also voiced Popeye's greatest adversary originally known as Bluto the Terrible from the middle 1940s through the late 1950s and created the voice for a very similar character called Brutus in the early 1960s </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Popeye</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> cartoons for television. All this and more of Jackson Beck's fabulous show business career is covered in several interviews found in this book. Olympic swimmer and actor Buster Crabbe - best known as Flash Gordon in the classic movie serials from the 1930s talks about his career on television film and as an Olympic athlete. Actress and writer Kate Phillips tells about her experience in working on the classic sci-fi film The Blob and her career on stage and screen.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A 1978 Sons of the Desert convention in Chicago spotlighted the careers of comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. People who worked with and knew Stan and Ollie tell their stories about one of America's greatest comedy teams in the 20th Century on film. Child stars like George Spanky McFarland and other members of Our Gang (aka The Little Rascals) talk a little about their careers along with Janet Ann Gallow's memories of Lon Chaney Jr. Sharyn Moffett remembers Boris Karloff in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Body Snatcher</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and Jimmy Hunt talks about </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Invaders from Mars</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>!</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If that isn't enough comedy director Ed Bernds talks about working with The Three Stooges director Frank Capra and serials with tight-fisted Sam Katzman at Columbia Pictures.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Future volumes will contain interviews with Adrian Booth (aka Lorna Gray) who remembers Buster Keaton The Three Stooges and serial making at Columbia and Republic studios. Classic cartoon animators discuss </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Snow White Pinocchio Gulliver's Travels Popeye</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Superman</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> from the 1930s and '40s. Special effects master Linwood Dunn talks about making serials in Hollywood during the 1920s and touches on his work for </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>King Kong</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Thing</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. The Next Generation of animators and special effects artists like Jon McClenahan talks about working on </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tiny Toon Adventures</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Animaniacs</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and Jack Polito remembers his time for Irwin Allen on </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lost in Space</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>!</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>