Ezio Pinza joking with Jimmy Durante as Pinza leaves his imprints at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953 Date: 1953 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Comedian Buster Crabbe entertaining crippled children during Buster Crabbe's Aqua Parade at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948 Date: July 20, 1948 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Comedian Jimmy Durante with "Plot-O Cartoon Kit" Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1953 Date: circa 1953 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis mugging it up in cockpit of airplane, circa 1950 Date: circa 1950 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Charlie Chaplin standing in Los Angeles courtroom during 1945 paternity trial Date: 1945 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Chico and Groucho Marx standing at ticket windows during filming of scene for "A Day at the Races", Los Angeles, 1937 Date: 1937 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Comedian Fanny Brice in playful pose, circa 1938 Date: 1938 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Comedian Eddie Cantor with beauty contestants Lisa Davis, Barbara Drake and Phyllis Applegate, Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1954 Date: 1954 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Jack Benny and Eddie Anderson, (aka Rochester) disembarking train with camel in Los Angeles, Calif. Date: 1943 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Eddie Cantor at press conference with Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown and George Jessel in Calif., 1964 Date: February 1, 1964 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
Comedian Ray Raymond, Los Angeles, 1927 Description: Photograph related to the article, "Case Promises New Sensation," Los Angeles Times, 12 May 1927: A2. Date: May 1927 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
Margery Chapin and Benny Baker outside of Paramount Pictures' commissary, Los Angeles, 1936 Description: Margery Chapin (left) and Benny Baker stand outside Paramount's commissary, Café de Savoie. Date: [circa Jan 14 1936] Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
Doug Flutie and Bob Hope carrying gymnast Mary Lou Retton during taping of Bob Hope's Christmas television show, 1984 Date: December 11, 1984 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Flynn, Scott Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Groucho and Chico Marx at copyright trial in Los Angeles, Calif., 1937 Date: November 18, 1937 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dick and Tom Smothers playing about on tricycles, Los Angeles, Calif., 1966 Date: March 28, 1966 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Comedian Lily Tomlin in her home in Los Angeles, Calif., 1976 Date: April 9, 1976 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Frampton, Mary Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Title =Los Angeles-based comedian, Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) posing with stuff monkey on Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles, Calif., 1984 Date: June 27, 1984 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Edwards, Mike Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Entertainer Bob Hope surrounded by 53 extended family members at his home in Toluca Lake, Calif., 1973 Date: July 4, 1973 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Cormier, Don Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Comedienne Phyllis Diller being awarded honorary house mother of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity at UCLA, 1966 Date: May 10, 1966 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Hackley, Gene Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Comedians Broderick Crawford in drag with George Burns backstage during Friars Frolics in Los Angeles, Calif., 1950 Date: April 24, 1950 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Comedian George Burns leaving his imprint in cement at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., 1979 Date: November 26, 1979 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Kennedy, Joe Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
MTV's Mark Goodman interviewing comedian Eddie Murphy at premiere of motion picture "Purple Rain", 1984 Date: July 28, 1984 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bob Hope on his return from eight-day Christmas tour of military bases greeted by his dog Recession in Los Angeles, Calif., 1959 Date: December 29, 1959 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Actor-comedian Danny Kaye seated in chair smoking pipe during interview about UNICEF in Los Angeles, Calif., 1965 Date: November 16, 1965 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Gunderson, Judd Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Steve Martin playing the banjo with arrow through head, 1978 Date: July 16, 1978 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Diamos, Marianna Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Lionel Richie, Apollonia Kotero, and Eddie Murphy at premiere of motion picture "Purple Rain" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1984 Date: July 28, 1984 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Comedienne Joan Rivers and daughter Melissa at fashion show in Los Angeles, Calif., 1973 Date: March 8, 1973 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Ballard, Kathleen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bob Hope with Cardinal James Francis McIntyre at Ladies of Charity luncheon in Los Angeles, Calif., 1973 Date: March 30, 1973 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Bessel, Larry Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Joseph Scott, George L. Eastman, Eddie Cantor, and R. G. Swaffield at luncheon, Los Angeles, 1932 Description: This photograph is likely related to the article, "Good Times Drive to Open," Los Angeles Times, 16 May 1932: A1. Date: May 16, 1932 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Nancy Andrews applying makeup to Sid Caesar backstage before "Little Me" show at Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, Calif., 1964 Date: June 9, 1964 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
1/2 length portrait of comedian Danny Thomas with pills he takes for his voice, 1963 Date: November 1, 1963 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Comedian Jackie Gleason placing conductors hat on reporter Hedda Hopper during train junket named "The Great Gleason Express," in Los Angeles, Calif., 1962 Date: August 10, 1962 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bob Hope embracing his daughter, Nora after her graduation from Providence High School in Burbank, Calif., 1964 Date: June 8, 1964 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Actors-Comedians Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, in top hats and tails, joking around with press and fans, 1951 Date: June 4, 1951 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Actors-Comedians Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin talking to the press, 1951 Date: June 4, 1951 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Comedian Jonathan Winters and actress Angela Lansbury posing with an Oscar at the 1965 Academy Awards Date: April 6, 1965 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Malmin, John Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Sesame Street's Big Bird with Flip Wilson filming episode of "The Flip Wilson Show," 1970 Date: September 16, 1970 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Bessel, Larry Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Karl T. Waugh conducting psychogalvanscope test on Dorothy Sebastian while other actors look on at MGM studios, 1930 Date: February 28, 1930 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Pallbears accompanying casket of Gracie Allen as her husband, George Burns and family follow, Calif., 1964 Date: September 1, 1964 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
Feminist comedians, Pat Harrison and Robinson Tyler, 1972 Date: April 27, 1972 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Fontanini, Steve Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen and children standing at rail of ship in Los Angeles, Calif., 1938 Date: August 7, 1938 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Entertainer Steve Allen with grape boycott pickets, out front of supermarket in Encino, Calif., 1965 Date: December 22, 1965 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Harpo Marx and three of his children joking around wearing Harpo wigs in Los Angeles, Calif., 1954 Date: January 13, 1954 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George Gobel with Phyllis Jackson pruning a tree on Ventura Blvd. for beautification campaign in Encino, Calif., 1964 Date: March 2, 1964 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby entertaining at Los Angeles Times annual sports dinner, 1944 Date: December 28, 1944 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Carol Channing with husband, producer Charles F. Lowe arriving at airport in Los Angeles, Calif., 1964 Date: August 31, 1964 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dorothy Lamour standing at microphone as Bing Crosby and Bob Hope watch at telethon for 1952 Olympic Games Date: June 23, 1952 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Designer Bob Mackie with Bette Midler, Elton John, Cher and Flip Wilson in television studio, Los Angeles, 1975 Description: Designer Bob Mackie with Bette Midler, Elton John, Cher and Flip Wilson during the taping of The Cher Show special at the CBS Television City Studio 3A. Date: January 19, 1975 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Bessel, Larry Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Comedian Phyllis Diller surveying her wardrobe in her 18x30-foot closet, Calif., 1978 Date: December 8, 1978 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Armstrong, Larry Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Tom Bradley presenting diploma to comedian George Burns in Los Angeles, Calif., 1977 Date: November 24, 1977 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Varie, Bill Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection