Animation Fun Facts for June 30, 2012

1933- A group of actors meet in secret at Frank (the Wizard of Oz) Morgan and form the Screen Actors Guild. The secrecy was because studios threatened to blacklist anyone who so much as breathed the word union. Among the founding members that night are James Cagney, Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Frederic March, Robert Montgomery and Boris Karloff. 1940- Female Cartoonist Dale Messick takes over the Brenda Star comic strip and adds the trademark sparkles.